People are strange,they pay more on there for a second hand dvd than they cost new,nowt stranger than folk 😮

Don’t think it’s the price, but the thrill of the chase and ‘spoils’ to the victor, whatever the cost!

That prompted me to go to the archives to find a slide I took….34 😮 years ago of G-APRS when it was XT610 with A&AEE at Boscombe Down on 18th March 1971 during the A&AEE’s 50th Anniversary. I remember it like yesterday and the weather was dreadful!

Hello Mr Ross, i imagine the black and yellow stripes are used to warn of possible drops from the aircraft as the Horsa glider trainers in WW2 carried them and as far as I know never towed a target. With the floor loading space of a Beverly a retractable target for slow speed attacks may not have been a bad idea 😉
The stripes do look red to me though 😉 :diablo:

Hmm, that’s an interesting and logical theory! However, how can you say the ‘stripes look red’. The centres of the roundels are red and the wingtips are dayglo orange? That is a good guide, so ‘golden yellow’, I’m sure 😎

Oh I can guarantee it happened on one of those two trips, Albert 😀

The two dates I have to hand as “possibles” are August 1995 and April 1996, but not sure which of those were the one(s) you were on (if that makes sense!) 🙂

Snapper, I assume you mean http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35361

Hand on my heart, I can swear that no such convos ever took place!

Steve

Nope, I was on BOTH Greek trips in April 95 and April 96 and the whole group were well behaved and stayed together the whole time! Think you must be getting confused with what went on during the Israeli/Jordanian trip!
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I thought the ’96 trip was the one where several members of the official party hired a car or two out of their own pockets to check-out “extra-curricular” items of interest such as the Starfighter stash at Agrinion and the CFE-withdrawals (the HAF’s original F-104Gs) round the back at Araxos :diablo: Weren’t the Army visits cancelled too, or was that a different trip?

Steve

No, nothing like that happened on that trip. I never heard that story! The Army visits were never on in the first place, as they didn’t get permission!

After watching the ITV drama tonight, I now I know what you were arrested for….fraud!!!! Repainting Portuguese Cessna 337s and CASA Aviocars at Sintra to portray Greek Air Force aircraft types that they don’t have :diablo: !!

Hi Steve,

This is great to have a real celebrity on the Forum! When ITV approached you to make this, I would have thought that part of the agreement would be that they help you out with some of your ‘expenses’. I think this is very poor, considering they take money for advertising in the breaks. Having been to Kalamata and photographed every Buckeye and T-37 there, plus the sign on the gate with the T-37 that says ‘Photography Prohibited’, I have every sympathy for you and shall be watching with much enthusiasm and support.
I hope the Greeks get to see this and realise how ridiculous this all was and I shall look for the DVD is Smiths!!! Best of luck!