welcome dev

Roger Smith.

(The bod looking into the wreck is Peter Schofield – he gave me a lift home to East London that afternoon, miles out of his way, thanks Peter!)

Aah, the lesser-spotted Schofield.

I guess many on this forum don’t have a clue who Peter Schofield is Gordon!

Peter is one of the “pioneers” of the aircraft preservation movement being active from the early 1960s in the Northern Aircraft Preservation Society (along with, amongst others, John Kenyon and Malcolm Goosey) and was Editor of the first public issues of “Control Column” and, later, Chairman of the BAPC. He remerged, briefly, to be a guest at the BAPC’s 150th quarterly meeting at Newark in November, 2004.

Roger Smith.

Very nice piece of film (waves of nostalgia!!!) I would have been there too. I think it is mid 1960s – the Kings Cup left Baginton in 1966 (after a number of years being held there) and was held at Nottingham in ’67 & ’68.

Percy Blamire that Consul mentions was a very keen racer in his Gemini and always used race number “80”. He was a local garage owner and had one false leg.

Roger Smith.

As for moving the Shackleton. Have you seen the picture in the August edition of Flypast of them moving one of the Paphos Shacks.????? Lifted in one piece with great big crane.

Brian

Left me agape – one helluva crane!

Roger Smith.

Whilst discussing NF.14 WS838 can anyone tell me if the photo on the front cover of the new Meteor book by Phil Butler & Tony Buttler is WS838? I can’t afford to buy it yet 🙁 and I’ve had a magnifying glass on the ad in the mags but can’t quite make it out. Which other NF.14s wore an all-yellow scheme?

Roger Smith.

Thanks, enjoyed seeing these.
Roger Smith.

Well we picked her up from Christchuch about the late 80’s early 90’s time and she was apparently being used as an instuctional airframe, which is good because everything has been taken out and put back together properly, not hacked to death like most are, so I’m lucky in a way 😉

Thanks for the piccy’s though.

Rob, XN685 actually came from the Apprentices Training School at Hawarden and arrived at MAM on 14th September, 1992.

Keep up the excellent work, Roger Smith.