Bellarine..your blog is obviously a labour of love and is amazingly interesting..genuine thanks to you for sharing.

I really liked (sic) ” I’ve run out of storage room at the moment, so I’m keeping the other Beaufighter wheel in the back of my car ” …now THAT’S dedication to the cause..

onya mate..

Does Machrihanish count..? at age five stayed there while dad flew Corsairs and Sea Furies.

Just stumbled across the Shorts Scion project on Ebay…

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Short-Scion-aircraft-museum-project-/120818484991?pt=UK_Collectables_Aeronautica_MJ&hash=item1c2157c6ff#ht_438wt_137

..seem to remember it stored (wing off) outside the hanger, over the back where the Hermes was parked for many years.
Why on earth did Channel airways buy it…with a view to do what with it ???

Here goes..
Early/ mid fifties, Dads idea of child minding was “take the lad along too..” so many hours on weekends were spent in anything Air Charter Ltd that dad happened to be flying.. often Freighters, but mostly DC-4’s g-anyb and g-aofw, including a solid 3 months out of templehof in’56 in g-anyb.

Also an RAF Hastings flight around jan 1970, very low and very slow over a Vulcan that had crashed the day before at RAF ?? ( can’t recall)

Twenty odd years later, a very skilful landing of a DC6 on a dirt runway, again in South Africa…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hmx1yqB3XQ

“Another information wanted is on the Classic civil props Electras and the Dc-3 what is the news please help and give your views ..”

Ice pilots series one dvd has plenty of smoky Electra action, and the boss seems to keep the DC-3 to himself..you’ll find it interesting I’m sure.

Endless c54’s…

“The Big Lift”

An awesome film made during the Berlin Airlift, almost all C54 action, but also has a memorable scene where a lone Bristol Freighter is guided into a fog bound Templehof.

Notable in as much as every pilot and aircrew featured, was actually on active service at the time of filming.