Neil, Colin and all.

Many, many thanks and big respect 😉 for a cracking good day.

Good to meet so many forumites, although I didn’t read this thread in advance and hence missed the gathering at the Pembroke!

Sorry I didn’t get to meet with Albert, nice piccie of the Luton though!! 😀

See you all next year I hope, if not before!!

For years, they have charged £10.00 per car for admission to the park and only additional charges for admission to the house. When did this change? :confused:

I think that this changed last year. It appears that the new Lord Tavistock’s managment team now insist all visitors buy a ticket which includes admission to Woburn House as well as the grounds, even though they know few will visit.

At the end of the day – it’s their house. But I feel desparately sorry for Stuart McKay and his fellow DH Moth club volunteers who’ve created a unique event, only for it to be stuffed by another lot of “management consultants”.

….as I’d got Fenland loaded into the GPS I went up there yesterday and despite the wind being nearly down 26 it was 20kts gusting 28kts which made for a series of “adjustments” on short finals so you weren’t alone in that respect.

Crikey. My stalling speed’s 29 knots so I’d have needed more than adjustments!! 😮

I don’t imagine we will hear much from ASML for a day or two. He is probably lying down in a darkened room, waiting for his ears to stop ringing!

Edit that; He must be better, since he wandered over Chesham this afternoon, like a slightly disorientated bee.

Correct on both counts! Ears still buzzing!! As a previous Luton owner Propstrike clearly appreciates the joys of four stub exhausts ending less than a foot away from the cockpit!

Actually although the viz was pretty awful on Saturday, it cleared just as I was thinking about turning back. I could even find Fenland first go!!

Yesterday’s sortie to Popham was possibly more challenging. A gusty crosswind over the clubhouse was making the approach to 26 even more ‘sporting’ than usual. I thought my landing effort – like a one-armed wallpaper hanger – was pretty shameful – then I realised that Cessna and Warrior pilots were doing it too!

Still there was one compensation, after bumbling back via Chesham, (yes I know it’s the long way round) I discovered I could ridge soar the Luton on the updraft from the Western edge of the Chilterns!

Thanks for the pic John – sorry I couldn’t keep up, but I did still make it to Fenland within 30 minutes of your arrival! 😀

Fit an ADF (FNL – 401) then – worked every time for me! 😉

Andy

Yes, but I’d have to pedal even harder to keep the dynamo going!

😀

Aiming to try, if weather – and my ability to find Fenland – allows!

A few more recent ones of G-ANFM………

The close-in shot is Len Mitton, getting John Coker a little worried during a bit of Diamond Nine practice. Like me, John’s idea of formation is same day, same county, same direction….

No. 2, proof you can fly a Moth in January! Bleedin freezin!!

Number 3 is various DH types, sheltering from the thunderstorms at Upavon, during last year’s DH Moth tour.

The final one – haven’t clue where I dug it up from, but a Moth deck landing?

Many thanks for the information. The Singapore 111 prop is 12ft6ins. The prop boss’s are around 2ft.

I take it you’re going to lengthen the Luton Minor’s undercarriage legs then!! 😀