I think you are right G-ASEA in that the replica was a Mike Russell rebuild project, along with the Drone and, from memory, a Dragon as well. He was going to set up a flying British light aircraft collection. Definitely a character and capable of talking for the UK.

A bit more. It was c/n 4097, G-ADHA which became ZK-ADI. Is it still in the red and blue Guards/King’s Flight colours?

Denny was last heard of selling timeshare in Tenerife. There is more to the story but this being a public forum, I couldn’t possibly comment.

Scotavia, what era were you at Palatine? I had a couple of chums there, although I was at Arnold which was only a 5 minute bike ride from Squires Gate. Chris Whyham was in my form and of course his father owned Air Navigation and Trading. Despite that we still got chased out of his hangar on a regular basis. He did have some goodies though, including a GA Cygnet G-AGBA that he ofered to me for £25 including engine. Must have been around 1957/8. He got really mad when I bought an Austin-Healey Sprite in 1962 for £450. He wanted to sell me a Hornet Moth and teach me to fly for £400. That Moth has recently been up for sale at c£40K which goes in to my “if only” file.

Thanks for the identities of the aircraft but where were the “scramble” sequences filmed? It was too much to expect a Liberator, York or DC-4 for the scenes of Churchill going to Tehran and Yalta but was it the B of B DC-3/C-47 they used? I’ve just finished reading Max Hastings book on that phase of Churchill’s life and it runs to over 600 pages so the TV programme did pretty well to get it into 90 minutes.

Hi Steve,

I was at the Krakow Museum a fortnight ago and that photo showing the Mig-19s is quite spooky. Seeing a line-up like that makes you realise just what a problem the West would have had if things had turned “hot”, especially as the line-up would have been reproduced in the other Warsaw Pact countries.
Incidentally the admission fee to the Museum is 5 zloty, about £1.10 and apart from an almost complete selection of Polish gliders it has a Yak 17 and a Yak 23 which were the oldest Soviet jets I’ve seen. Sorry to hi-jack the thread.

Oz

Great shots but I wonder why the Chinook was going the “wrong” way? Is the Tucano in this year’s RAF solo colour scheme?