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December 8, 2012 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Perfect Morning at Southend! #447438

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Certainly an up and coming airport, are there many HS748’s or Avro 146’s still at the far end of the airfield? Would love to see some photo’s of these.

December 3, 2012 at 9:39 pm in reply to: Shackleton control wheel centercap #947542

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Centre caps with company logos for any control wheel are always hard to find. Being easy to remove they were always the first items to be liberated as souvenirs by engineers and crew. Nice wheel, good look in restoring it.

December 2, 2012 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #949296

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Sounds like someone is telling porkies then, Kiteflyer. It would take some serious cleaning to make a flash eliminator appear. Unless it was Aladdin’s Browning.

I was astonished at the final price of this bit of Spit…
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230887361680?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Curious to see how much this BFP goes for:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110983666067?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Wow amazing price for the Spitfire under carriage indicator. Obviously someone is missing this as a last piece for their instrument panel. Wonder if they will ever come across any crates of spitfire spares whilst digging in Burma, this stuff seems to go up with the price of gold!

November 21, 2012 at 10:07 pm in reply to: What would everyone would like to see fly in 2013? #962854

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Anything and everything that rolls along Bruntingthorpe’s runway!

November 17, 2012 at 2:59 pm in reply to: London Airport in the 1950s #967570

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There were C-47s in Europe with F-104 noses as part of the NATO/CAF F-104 program e.g
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=421925
though I never saw one.

Re WW club/ Museum of Berkshire Aviation….would that be Jean Fostekew, author of ‘Blossom Miles’?
http://home.comcast.net/~aero51/html/history/blossom.htm

sounds like a good add-on to a visit to the ATA Museum at Maidenhead

I believe the West German Luftwaffe also had these adapted C47 in order to train their Starfighter pilots. One of these was scrapped at Hal Far Malta, I have the yoke to this somewhere in my attic. Just to clarify it still retained the Douglas yoke and not a stick grip!

November 15, 2012 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Woodford Airshow 1997 and 1992 memories #969958

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Thanks for the link to the web site J/31. Looking at the spotter Photographs brought back great memories of my days on the airport pier in the 7O’s and my membership of Starliner !

November 14, 2012 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Woodford Airshow 1997 and 1992 memories #971325

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As it happens I was down at Waterloo station London this afternoon there is an Ian Allen book shop located nearby. One of the books I browsed through was a published book on Woodford. It had copious amounts of colour photographs on each page detailing all the aircraft visitors and air shows throughout the years. I was amazed at some of the stuff that had passed through the airfield especially the Russian aircraft. Looking through the aircraft that were displayed at some of the shows Woodford certainly knew how to pull it off, however nature seems to have had other ideas (dreaded weather!) I was there when the Rockwell B1 displayed, you could hardly see the aircraft through the torrential rain. This is all that I can remember about this particular show, seeing and hearing the aircraft certainly help lift people’s spirits for 5 minutes, I take my hat off to the B1 pilot for going ahead with it’s limited display.The book should be available on the Internet to purchase, I forgot it’s title but it includes the word Woodford (perhaps that’s the only word!) Happy Days, so sorry to see the airfield close down..

October 29, 2012 at 10:56 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #992060

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WWII RAF googles, never come across this type before, eBay item number 220609674315 , looks like something out of Mad Max.

October 29, 2012 at 10:01 pm in reply to: Aircraft Control Wheels #992083

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I would also welcome a big glossy book of stick grips, yokes and maybe even (for the particularly perverse) throttles. The Donald Nijboer books, Cockpit, Gunner and Cockpits of the Cold War are a constant delight, as is Air Ministry’s book of spade grips. The ergonomic design is fascinating and the finding has turned into something of an obsession. Fascinating to see other people’s collections to.

The Donald Nijboer books are indeed excellent, a very similar book to this is “At the controls” The Smithsonian National Air and Space museum book of cockpits by Tom Alison and Dana Bell.

Other good books are “Control in the Sky” the evolution of the aircraft cockpit by LFE Coombs and also “The aircraft cockpit” again by LFE Coombs.

All fore mentioned books have lots of pictures of various cockpits, instrument panels, sticks and yokes covering WW1, WW2 through to modern day jets both civilian and military.

If anyone needs ISBN numbers then these can be provided. Great reference guides!

October 28, 2012 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Aircraft Control Wheels #994078

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Another one from the Tupolev stables this time a TU-22 Backfire, I guess ex Ukraine Air Force. Despite the tens of thousands of Russian machines out there, especially those that have been long since scrapped there doesn’t seem to be much stuff out on the market? I’ve longed for some Russian pieces for a long time and then similar to a bus three of them come along!

October 28, 2012 at 6:34 pm in reply to: London Airport in the 1950s #994089

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Another picture request also, any pictures of what was on the Heathrow fire dumps through time?

October 28, 2012 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Aircraft Control Wheels #994096

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Lovely grip! I heard about Speyer but don’t know much about it, are there many grips or yokes for sale there?

October 26, 2012 at 8:37 pm in reply to: Incredible take off #530301

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It’s nice to see that this country (Russia) doesn’t come to a halt With a bit of snow. Clearly this pilot has got the get up and go to work attitude!
Anyone who disagrees then wait till the British winter, sprinkled with a slight snow flurry and we will all be moaning that nothing is functioning yet again!

October 21, 2012 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Books for collecting aviation memorabilia #1003994

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There might be another in due course….;)

I will look forward to any new publication!
An interest in aircraft and collecting aviation memorabilia seem to go hand in hand with a lot of people. Always thought it would be a good avenue for the monthly magazines to explore and possibly devout a page in their magazines to collecting. A number of mainstream aviation magazines already on a regular basis have the odd page covering aviation books, models, flight sim programmes etc, would be good and interesting to see a page on collecting bits and pieces etc

October 21, 2012 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #1004278

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I have a B1
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