This any use…???

Cheers, Chumpy.

Project website..http://www.wingsovereverest.com

The RAF museum at Hendon holds quite a number of original Supermarine factory drawings for the S6. Including tables of fuselage lines etc.

Chumpy.

Hi there AA, (long time no speak)

                        Re the ‘toy’ balloons the CAA were victims of their own rules when it was discovered that any balloon over a certain height had to carry a civil reg.  As mentioned by Farnboroughbob despite putting them into the G-FY** sequence the madness still continued.

A lot of them were produced and offered for sale by the guys at the Solent Avi Society at Southampton. I plead guilty here having bought one as a birthday present for a friend of mine, complete with CAA registration document. No doubt  more gnashing of teeth at the CAA when my pal applied to get it re-registered in his name!.

After a high level ‘bored meeting’ the empire struck back, adding a minimum weight requirement ( 2kg or similar) for bin-bag balloons, ending the need to register them.

Cheers, Chumpy.

OK I stand to be corrected, just when you thought I knew it all! ( a tale he did not tell me)

Jim visited our works on the IOW on several occasions. His favourite tipple was tea with SIX sugars preferably made with Carnation condensed milk…my teeth still itch just to think of it!

Still in my memory is seeing him land turbine Thrush Commander G-SAAS into a very small field, then with the prop in reverse pitch, taxy the thing backwards.

Those were the days!

With reference to Richards post above, I seem to recall reading that the R.N. / F.A.A had their own ‘Air Accident Investigation Branch’?  Despite the aircrew being civilians, I would imagine there would  be some form of investigation as the aircraft were still military.

Cannot seem to find any reference to such an outfit online, anyone point me in the right direction…..is Lee Howard still around?

Thanks in anticipation Chumpy.

oooh nooo not Hendon!