great shots Anna. No matter how bad the weather you always come away with worthwhile pics. Thanks as usual for posting.

Yes, I agree Wyvernfan, lovely shots of the Seafire. A vision that comes to mind was cycling to Gatwick from Brighton in 1953 and seeing wall to wall Seafires and Spitfires parked in front of Airworks hangers awaiting refurbishing. We wandered among them and noted the serials without being turfed off the field like you would today. What a festering twit I was not to take a single pic!

Since I can’t make it to Farnborough I’d like to thank everyone for all these wonderful photographs , and of course for the upcoming Farnborough shots
that will make up for me missing the show.( stuck in the boonies of Eastern Ontario).

W.E.Johns for sure. Plus stories in the Rover, I flew with Braddock etc.Though there was one author, who I have searched for years, Captain A. O. Pollard VC MC DCM . Many of his novels had an aviation flavour.

Pagin 01…I imagine you’ll be ground by a pretty large eruption when your missus reads your comment.

Watched “Dark of the Sun” last weekend. From the novel by WIlbur Smith. Filmed in 1968, it starred Rod Taylor and Kenneth More Was always keen to see it, as the Mustang used in this film was at the time owned by Charles Masefield and was based at Shoreham where I worked. Took this photo in front of the Terminal. It was featured strafing a train, though I noticed the sky was overcast, but the train was in full sunshine with scattered cumulus
The drawing offices at Beagle a/c vibrated when Masefield (now Sir Charles) took off in this beautiful aircraft

XB-70 Valkyrie at Wright-Patterson in 1972. This wonderful beast was stored outside while the huge museum behind, was being completed. Slides unfortunately, were quite dirty, even though they were stored in boxes and in the dark.