Congratulations Inkworm. Harry Sidney would’ve been fine. Maybe next time….. And once those nappies keep filling, it will seem that The Dambusters will have arrived!!!

I remember at the ‘Southampton show’ on the common somewhere around 1975, a Spitfire displayed. It was reported in the echo the next week that a couple of rabbits died in the tents because of the noise.. er sorry sound, from the aircraft.

One can only imagine what a vulcan howl might take out.

Another airshow off next years list!

In my absence, put me down for a 7, maybe 8. My specialized subject, for no apparent reason, would be Errol Flynn. Even my mrs don’t know why….

Great to read other enthusiasts ‘First sightings’. Also, good to see no one has been pulled up on things like, ‘That airline didn’t fly that route in 1966’.
First impressions are very important, and facts shouldn’t never get in the way of a precious memory.

My first flight was in a B.E.A Vanguard from London Heathrow to Jersey, it was about 1968 and i was about 3 years of age. Sadly, i dont remember a thing about it!!!

Farnborough 1974. Standing fairly close too the Lockheed S.R.71 and getting the pilots autograph on a aircraft fact-sheet. My father filmed it all on cine camera, the pilot dressed in sky blue uniform and me in brown corduroy suit!! Unfortunately, the blackbird gone, the autograph gone and the film gone. The cord suit fortunately long gone.

Just been looking at Davidstow on google earth. Using the “street view” mode to drive over that airfield really does give a great perspective of the size of the place. Suprised that so many shelters and pans are left in such good condition. It brought back some good memories of Stoney cross and Holmsley airfields in the New Forest in the early seventies, they were fairly similar before the bulldozers moved in!

Is it a stanley tape measure?