Fixing the one with two seats is going to take more than just this winter
I’m sure that something like this is going to be a familiar sight for a lot of us this winter!
In about 1971-72, Kemps Aerial Surveys sold a fleet of around four Anson 19s to the Sir William Roberts Collection. As a snotty nosed teenager, I blagged a ride on one of them (G-AHIC I think), up to Strathallen. I seem to think there was a Hudson or Ventura delivered at about the same time. Any idea what happened to them?
Fixing the one with two seats is going to take more than just this winter, but we’ll get there! See you at Turweston in the single seater though!
Thumbs Up to Old Warden for some more great memories, not least Andy Sephton’s ‘Spitfire finale’ the other week, although seeing a flock of Nieuports and Sopwiths in the air for the filming of Flyboys at Halton will stick in my mind for while too.
On a more personal note, watching a golden setting sun light up the underside of Pietenpols G-ADRA and G-BUCO in a loose formation coming back from Popham the other week was one of those things that make you wish you can fly one-handed and dig out a camera with the other!
Sad to hear about the damage to Southend Pier. Glad to hear though that the local authorities are not going take the ‘easy’ option that has resulted in the loss of so many others.
Just a thought, when we know when the Waverley will make her 2006 voyage, how about one or two historic aircraft owners arranging to be coincidentally ‘in the vicinity’; maintaining statutory 500 foot clearances of course!
Don’t think I can quite match the standard of photography here but where else in the world could you see this…..
Easy. Thick jacket, two layers of socks. Two pairs of gloves, wooly hat over ears under flying helmet. Big dew drop on end of nose. And go enjoy frosty CAVOK morning!
PS. Bod. If it hadn’t been your birthday yesterday, I’d have posted the pic of you wearing the Biggles flying kit!!
Many happy returns!
Sadly as Matt says, the Inside Out programme is now postponed to January – as it was supposed to be their series finale, but it’ll be worth waiting for.
Basically it’s looking at the story of how the replica aeroplane came to be built for the Biggles movie and the Boddington family connection then and now, as well as telling some of the story of how Capt. W. E. Johns came to create the Biggles’ series of books.
It’s all livened up by some ‘re-enactions’ with a chap who looked scarily like Johns sitting at a typewriter in his study (filmed in a corner of the Sywell Aviator!) and some close-up cockpit shots of Biggles flying through ‘cloud’, filmed with the aid of Delta, who loaned us G-ADGT for the occasion and a smoke generator. At one point, it convinced Sywell management that we’d set the Tiger on fire – so it might make It’ll Be Alright on the Night too!
When you’ve finished “The Big Show” here’s another one:
“We Landed By Moonlight” by Hugh Verity. About his Special Duty operations with the Lysander. Things like how to navigate from Tempsford to a field near Lyons, in the dark with no lights whatsoever. Awesome!
Have also just reread “Airmans Odyssey” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Not all wartime memoirs, although one third of the trilogy is about reconnaissance flying over Arras in the last days before the fall of France in 1940, but the rest, including pioneering airmail flying to Africa and in South America, make it one of the ‘must have’ books for me.
Nice to see a picture of G-AMUG. I enjoyed several happy hours in that aeroplane, flying from Teesside in the early 1970s. Sadly it was lost in 1973, killing its owner Jeff Garnett – a super bloke.
On a happier note, Chippie fans watch out for a posting sometime in the next few weeks. Rumour has it that plans are being made for a 60th Birthday fly-in next year. Fancy seeing 60 Chippies to celebrate 60 years? Watch out on the forum!
Never realised they built an Auster Autocrapper!
I don’t think these have made an appearance yet. This was quite low.
Steve
I think this was shot at Bovingdon. Was the same footage used in the movie “The War Lover” too?
Awesome!!
Ben, I’m sure you can ‘do’ a converted T-6 for half the price!
Try flying the Luton, Melvyn. You can’t hear when MOTW tries to shout insults at you!