I take my wife to the airport and buy her an early lunch then I go flying for an hour or so then later in the afternoon I take her to the shops before we go home.

I see there’s an airworthy Jet Provost Mk.3, 1960 vintage, for sale in the new edition of Loop, bottom left hand corner of page 46, asking price is £26,500.

Red for me.

Wow, that big model is impressive and brings back memories.
Here is a picture of G-ASDC taken at Ostend on 1st August 1969 by Dougie Barr, who was one of our group of four who took a day trip from Southend to Ostend, one way on G-ASDC and the other on G-ASKN. By a happy co-incidence Dougie has also captured in the background the only Britannia which I ever flew in, G-ANBI.

Difficult to tell exactly what the outcome was here. If, as seems to be the case, there was an Engine Failure After Take Off, one has to wonder why the pilot first raised the nose much higher, then began a turn back towards the runway, both maneouvres which could well have induced a stall.

Great shots, DJ, I like the starburst effect in the first photo.
The Cherokee (or was it a Comanche?) flying across the setting sun is very surreal.

I think this is the pic (from the thread Question from an 8 year Old If you were an Aircraft) which triggered this thread. This prefab at Gallowhill, Paisley was erected in 1947. My parents lodged with my dad’s elderly mother. There was some sort of family fall out in 1957 and we had to leave her house and move into the prefab as a homeless family in temporary accommodation. In the event we stayed there until 1966. From the bedroom window there was a brilliant view of aircraft revving up at the 08 threshold of the old Renfrew Airport, where my dad worked for BEA, and as a young lad I soon recognised Yorks, Bristol 170’s, Vikings, Viscounts, Dakotas etc. As can be seen an Anderson shelter was provided for storing coal and garden tools. Later my dad retrained on jet engines and worked for Rolls Royce Aero Engines at Hillington and I joined 2175 squadron ATC (Rolls Royce Glasgow Squadron). All the prefabs at Gallowhill had gone by about 1970, but on the other side of town there was another, smaller group of prefabs which were classed as permanent and had extra features such as garden walls. These prefabs were reclad in the 1970’s and most were sold off by the Council and are now highly sought after as small bungalows. There are about twenty or thirty of them in the group, adjacent to the A726 road next to Dykebar Garden Centre.