Vulcan XH536 was flying at the SBAC Show in 1959 (the year before I made my first and only visit!)

Thank you very much Anna – perhaps you are the only person who has looked at them! However it was in important day for Gothenburg and it seems that half the population turned out to line the river banks – not to mention the “rush hour” afloat!
Your encouragement has prompted me to add two more.
Not many lads and lassies get the chance these days to stand on the topmast, I guess!
(BTW thought of you as I passed Sandhurst on my way back from the FAA Museum a couple of weeks ago in a rush to catch a Stansted flight)

Wright B Flyer at rest

. . . and on the ground, in focus this time!

Thanks, Snapper, and here’s me thinking I might be able to contribute something . . . you seem to have produced his definitive biography there! What a great man he was!

Sapphire Meteor WA820

There’s even a photo of it on page 57 of “40 Years at Farnborough” . . .

galdri – less of the “old” please! That was my 62nd birthday present to myself and made me feel 22 again!
I think we made 3g negative, but next time perhaps it’ll be more – funny how you think you are tightly strapped in until you start floating off the seat and heading for the canopy (and the ground directly “above”)!
Highly recommended and worth the trip over from the UK for you Forumites who would like to have a go!

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My Jane’s AWA 1958/59 quotes the rate of climb as 890 ft/min (without specifying which Mark)