Originally posted by Moggy C
I think it starts off as every 5 years. Unfortunately, for me, it is now every year.

However my AME in Felixstowe charges just £100 for the medical including the ECG.

Moggy

So Moggy , if it is every 5 years is that you covered until you are 70 now 😀

Originally posted by DazDaMan
My other half is choosing to stay home and study rather than spend the day with a bunch of big kids! 😉

I didn’t know there was a Jodel based at Drem! 😮

Yup , she was G-BOJO , struck off in 1996 reg now belongs on a Cameron balloon. I’ve posted photos of her and the based Turbulent at Drem on the Forum a while back . If you look midway down the straight bit of the south section of the perimeter track at Drem you will see a green double garage sized hangar both were kept in there between 1990-94 , I think the Jodel is still in there but the last time I saw her she was in a mess .

Originally posted by Deano777
ummmmm, how did you guess? 😉

Been there , “cough” , I will if you get your hand off my nuts !!!!:D

Originally posted by RadarArchive
Alastair,

Of course, you can’t pester Grant anymore, now that he’s shacked up with another woman – DoRIS! (Dept of Research and Info Services at RAF Hendon for those who didn’t know).

There is a very intresting account of the Ferranti Flying Unit. I have a photcopy of a few pages, but I’ve never seen a complete copy. I’d love to get my grubby little hands on one! There is a lot of equipment in the MoF from Ferranti, including of course the only purely civilian-registered Meteor.

$hit , I never knew Grant had gone already !! – he was an excellent chap – on more than one occasion he opened the restoration hangar to let us look at the Beaufighter close up .

Yup the EF Meteor is G-ARCX from Ferranti – and she is in excellent condition , shame they keep the canopy closed now though . George Anderson was a veritable mine of info when it came to Ferranti – I only wish I had paid more attention in class, I ended up repeating a riveting ” sequential and digital logic ” course !!! . And never got a copy of Georges tape to boot !!.

Originally posted by Flood
Er – that was bank holiday weekend!

Been there. Done that. Got a message from the webmaster about posting off topic too.

Maybe you’d like to invade the kill-kill-kill forum with a curry?

Flood.

Bah , I always miss the good bits !!! .

Mention curry on the Flamewars Forum ?? , sounds good 🙂

Originally posted by RadarArchive
Alastair,

I’m afraid that the one thing we are guaranteed NOt to see is the Concorde. It is strictly out of bounds and there is no chance whatsoever of any kind of viewing, even a sneek peek round a doorway. We will not see Concorde at all on Saturday.

If I can correct you on another point, the museum has been open to the public from 1 April and will certainly be open to anyone on Saturday. Since this will be the first weekend since Concorde’s arrival (and many people will expect, like you, to be able to see it) I think the museum will actually be very busy indeed.

Many apologies , I was over last weekend and there was not a soul to be seen – I was under the impression that it was shut until the Concorde was re-assembled .
I like your idea of a tour of Drem and Macmerry etc , I flew with a couple of friends who had a Jodel 150D in the big double garage shed thingy right on the south perimeter track at Drem for a couple of years , I would’nt mind a walkround of the place if we have time .

Right , when are we going to invade the Busliners forum ?? , lets set a date and time then invade the place , I’ve lit the barbeque .:D

Look up Aircraft Spruce Europe and give David Dawson a phone , he will talk you through aircraft quality spruce and mahogany ply , definately not cheap – but like Moggy says – do you want cheap stuff or quality stuff . Great Plains are good for aircraft quality hardware – AN fasteners , metals , rivets etc – they have a comprehensive selection of stuff – but it has to be sourced from the US.