I’ve been trying to tie it down a bit closer. Thinking back to my personal circumstances, my best guess is late 1976 or early 1977 for when I took my pictures.

Somewhere I’ve got some black & white pics I took in the 70s but I’m struggling to work out the year more accurately. TA634 was in roughly the same place but possibly at slightly less of an angle. Is that an info board in front? If so, I’m pretty sure is wasn’t there then.

Absolutely nothing to do with this thread but I’ve just remembered going to what I think must have been the 40th “birthday dinner” for W4050 in the Robin hangar. Surreal.

Delighted to hear it, an amazing man.
I wonder if the other pilot, presumably in charge, felt a little “outranked”. 🙂

I confess to inside info here, or cheating as it’s also known. 🙂
It was taken when Kev, Robbo, Andrew-O and possibly others visited East Kirkby last year and I believe Robbo’s posted it before.

Don’t you know the nose of a Lanc when you see one? 🙂

I won’t know for certain if I can manage Brooklands until a day or so beforehand. Unless somebody wants to lay in extra stocks of XL T-shirts I’ll have to be in disguise.

….nothing in there for the single, childless, beer drinking persons amongst us! 😉

Neil

Never has been, never will be.

I don’t have to do much sniffing at the moment. My local, about a third of a mile away, was CAMRA pub of the year 2004. 😀
Unfortunately, they’re plotting to retire this year which could change things.

I’m about 10 minutes East of Chesterfield which helps except for Manchester. From memory, Aeroventure’s about 40 minutes, Newark 45 minutes, Elvington an hour and a quarter and both East Kirkby and Coningsby an hour and a half plus.

I want to get to Brooklands but I don’t know yet if I can make it. Chesterfield isn’t a good place to start from.