I’ll miss the Andover but not its screaming Darts outside my office window.

Are XS596 & XS646 still flying?

I thought the 748 was a Dakota replacement, not the other way round!

Beer O Clock

Talking of Stirling’s, I happened upon this at my local beer emporium the other day.

Made from barley, which has been grown adjacent to the former runways, at North Creake.

If you after civilian part numbers, (AGS, SP etc) then I can recommend the Brown Brothers Book.

There was a couple on Amazon last time I looked.

Yes, as it stands, there is no one company that has built an aircraft from scratch without assistance from another company.

However, Historic Flying are pretty close to being able to do so, having jigs and tooling for most things – if they choose so to do.

Bruce

Stand to be corrected, but I didn’t think they had any CAA approvals for carrying out this kind of thing.

I suppose £1.75m is not bad value, considering that E-Type ‘Speedster’ Jezza was testing on Top Gear last night was £500k. :eek::eek:

A picture on the water too! Must be a rarity there Joe. In keeping with the thread…..looks cold.

Have quite a few pictures of the Catalina on water, but not with John and Paul. There was only a short period, when the aircraft operated with both of them before John’s accident. I think Paul was in RAFG for the first few seasons? But I guess you know that.

I think the picture was taken on Loch Neagh, Paul was doing his water landing checkout.

And yes, my memories of that period was; it was either cold or wet or both (but quite exciting on occasion :eek:).