Setup your own website

I taught myself to design and launch a website. You need to pay a hosting company, I use Penguin Internet Ltd. as they do not need your credit card details on their server, which most others do. Their package costs about £45 for a year, and you may need to pay a domain registration fee, around £5 for two years.
To design, edit and publish your site you will need CuteFTP, costing £24, if you go with Penguin. However there are free programs available, I have used Nvu quite a lot.
If you want to see my site look at http://www.burnham-on-crouchu3a.co.uk
I only update it when I feel like it. You can have an email facility in the package, and set your current email program to receive emails sent to your site.
Basically you can spend as much or as little as you want.
Your ISP may well provide you with webspace within your account, then you could do your own site for next to nothing.
Hope this helps.
Regards from
Geoff.Charge

Lightnings

All the above may be true, but it doesn’t prevent Mike Beachy Head from operating four of them at Thunder City in South Africa. If he can do it then so can others. Perhaps South Africa doesn’t have a CAA organisation.
Geoff.

Contacting Bruce

Hi Bruce, I sent you a PM at end of January re contacting Philip Birtles.
Sorry to use this posting to tell you, but didn’t know how else to get in touch.
Thanks.
Geoff.

TSR2 plans

I downloaded these same drawings from an aeromodelling magazine site about 2 years ago. Unfortunately I cannot remember the name. Have you tried clicking on the pictures in post no.59, saving them to your hard drive, then enlarging to the size you need? You could spend a few minutes on Google looking for titles such as Scale Modeller, etc.
Hope your search is successful.
Geoff.

Wartime fund raising

My earliest recollection of real aircraft was when I saw a Short Stirling on display in Colchester (Abbey Fields or Castle Park ?) about 1940. I was 6 years old, and it was on a fund-raising tour.
I also saw rubber-driven model aircraft flying on Hampstead Heath in 1938 when I was 4 years old.
Geoff.

TSR2 Drawings

As far as i know the one at cosford is relatively complete, she has engines and apparently a complete cockpit, thanks to some spares turning up some years ago and being donated to her, from what ive been told the one at duxford “222” is basically a gutted shell, no engines etc, someone correct me if im wrong 😀

NaShO

Ps, does anyone have a detailed three view drawing/detailed techincal schematics of her, if i cant have the real thing, i feel like building a huge remote control one 😀

How about these? You will need Adobe Reader to open the attachment.
Regards from
Geoff.

Mystere Restoration??

I saw the Mystere last year, and apart from the odd bird’s nest it looks like it could be restored for static exhibition. Anyone out there who might be interested? According to the Andrewsfield flying instructor it has been abandoned after closure of museum at Earls Colne.
Regards from
Geoff.

Jet Provost flights

There are no problems getting a flight in an ex-military aircraft, piston or jet.
I flew aerobatics in Eddie Todd’s Jet Provost out of Sandtoft near Doncaster last year. You simply join his flying club and hey presto you get a free flight. I took the controls for 20 minutes. Any owner can do this if he/she wishes, there is no secret to it, just look at http://www.jetprovostclub.com to see what’s on offer. This is how Eddie makes a living and can afford to own the aircraft.
He also flies a motor-glider out of Muchamiel near Benidorm, which I have also flown. The JP club fee was £300, this was my daughter’s present to me on my 70th birthday. The glider fee £50.
Give it a go chaps, you’ll not regret it.