Alligator just looks so tacky.

Well, you might find that farmed croc skin is hard to get hold of at the moment;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/9823009/15000-crocodiles-escape-from-South-African-farm.html

I remember visiting an ATC squadron in Hull in early 1983. This squadron had in its possession an Auster. Not sure which squadron or what aircraft, though?

Over to you…

152 (City of Hull) Sqn, East Park Barracks (as was), on Holderness Road. Central & East Yorkshire Wing’s premier Sqn. 🙂
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AFAIUI, it went to the Auster Group at Widmerpool, Notts, then to the group at Eggesford, who very kindly (!) sent me a recent photo of a collection of steel tubes.

Jack, you have a PM, in reply to yours.

I notice they’ve posed it in the standard Lynx setting with the engine cowlings open. I wonder if there’s still a HIND tucked away in one of the hangars?

As mentioned in the link provided by Biggles of 266, RAF Sutton on Hull was last occupied by 152 (City of Hull) Sqn ATC, who moved from the last remaining huts to East Park Barracks, Holderness Road, in about 1969/70, as the council commenced building Bransholme. The Shopping Centre occupies the site. Originally a barrage baloon depot, it later became a fire school, with airframes both obsolete and damaged brought in by road.

The gates are now almost opposite the Sqns present home. My older brother was on the Sqn while still at Sutton, and I joined them a few years after the move.

There are probably many cadets and ex cadets on the forum who owe their interest , and possibly careers , in avaition to their time with the ATC.

Indeed. The years I spent with 152 (City of Hull) Sqn were memorable. S/Ldr Varey, Fl/Lts Thrower and Hood, F/Os Frost and Oakley, WO Webster and Stead, and CI’s various, I thank you. Happy Anniversary, the Air Training Corps.

Must be true, this extract

The RFZ 2 was finished at the end of 1934, it had a Vril drive and a magnetic impulsion flying system. Its diameter was 5m and had the following characteristics: the contours of the device became blurred as it gained speed, and it lit up with different colours, a well known characteristic of UFOs. Depending on the propulsive force, it became red, orange, yellow, green, white, blue or violet. It was able to operate, and it had a remarkable destiny in the year 1941. It was used as a long range reconnaissance aircraft during the battle of England. The standard German ME 109 fighters had proved themselves unfit for transatlantic reconnaissance flights because of their short range. It was photographed at the end of 1941 over the south Atlantic while on the way to the auxiliary cruiser Atlantis which was in Antarctic waters. It could not be used as a fighter aircraft for the following reason: because of its impulsion flying system, the RFZ 2 could only make changes in direction of 90º, 45º, or 22.5º. Unbelievable, some of you will think, but it is exactly these right-angle flight changes that are characteristic of UFOs.

from the website here says so.

I wonder if the (late, and much lamented) Queen Mother was aware that she was wearing the cabin soundproofing?