Thank you

Try this:

TFC Friends’ Evening Booking Information

I am very grateful Janie; hopefully I will be able to thank you in person on the day. For some reason I could not (indeed still cannot) find this page on the site from TFC’s homepage.

Woody

Image attached.

Mark

Thanks Mark and Eddie – the four blades should have been a giveaway for a Tempset rather than a Typhoon.

Woody

Mark – Great pictures (as ever). Are the Defiant and Beaufighter the ones now at Hendon? If not, any idea where they are now?

Woody

Lightning at RAF St Mawgan on holiday in Cornwall, 1972. I was three and sitting on my father’s shoulders when it took off and went into a virtical climb on full afterburn. My father tells me that I was rather disconcerted.

The first I remember was (I am fairly sure) at Duxford in the mid-70s. I vividly remember the BBMF (Spit, Hurri and the Lancaster), a Mosquito and a Vulcan. I have photos (the first I ever took) somewhere.

Woody

Mark 12 – does it survive to this day?

Woody

sorry for the quality of the photos, but the front canopy glass is 3″ thick, and the rest of the canopy is not exactly photo quality glass. Great for stopping bullets (and birds!), but lousy for taking photos.

To be honest the warts n’all quality was what I really liked about your pictures.

As for Nelson’s latest project I’m afraid that I can’t say anything yet. As soon as it’s public I’ll let you know.

Thanks Steve and I hope I wasn’t being too cheeky.

Enjoy the Sea Fury, she’s a mighty and beautiful bird 🙂 .

Woody

Please, no more than two interviews! I buy DVDs to watch the aircraft and some have too many ‘talking heads’ describing what this and that was like to fly etc., which is really quite unecessary

Each to his own Albert.

I found the Keith Skilling interview about flying the Lavochkin which compared it to other types on the 2003 DVD extremely interesting. The cockpit footage that followed was breathtaking. I only wish that Keith had been able to offer the comparison to the Bearcat or other late/immediate post-WWII types which he said that he hoped would be possible at some point once the engine had been “run in”.

I also find vets’ recollections about the respective characteristics/merits of different types compelling.

Woody