Yes, it really was there…
I’ve seen some pics in the latest P**** magazine (don’t know if I can use the name here on Key 😉 )

I suspect that if it was in P*sspot magazine it was taken when G-APRT was at the PFA 60th Birthday party at Old Warden. I suspect this months magazine in print well before Kemble!

By the way. For those interested in Luton Minors, Arthur Ord-Hume made a very interesting announcement at the PFA event! Blatant plug, see http://www.lutonminor.com for more! 😀

Not exactly geodetic, but the Alon Ercoupe light aircraft of the 1940s used a similar principal to reduce the number of wing ribs by triangulating them in V-sections across the wing.

Made for some great corrosion traps sadly 🙁

There is a Tiger Moth in the UK still equipped for towing, but I can’t remember which one! :rolleyes:

I spoke with its owner at Old Warden last year and when he has finished the restoration of a matching vintage glider, we might even see the duo at a couple of fly ins next year!

The wings do look very Luton Minor-ish. Heaven knows about the rest.

The McCulloch engine is the type used in the 1960s on various Benson gyrocopters, but was equally famous for its ability to create sudden and often inconvenient periods of silence.

The best laugh is that someone’s put a bid in – and its been turned down for not meeting the reserve! 😀

I’m amazed that no-one’s mentioned Brooklands (where are you Melvyn? 😀 ), which was active with various pioneers including AV Roe from as early as September 1907.

Certainly in terms of the word ‘air base’, Farnborough surely must have been the first, with the creation of the Royal Engineers Balloon School in 1907 and the Royal Aircraft Factory.

By the time Old Sarum, Shoreham and the like had become operational, Farborough was sufficiently well established that the local photographers were selling postcards of it to tourists!