You can find a short film of it at http://www.britishpathe.com. Just type in Charles Masefield, and there you have it.

P. S. Does anyone know if Masefield is alive?

T J

Thanks TJJ couldn’t view the film but will try again later.

Very curious to see British Pathe list the film as taken during The King’s Cup at Plymouth on 27th July, 1967.

Now I’m certain The King’s Cup was held at Tollerton on Sat 19th August that year (it is in my notes the second display attended by the newly-formed Midland Aircraft Preservation Society).

Can anyone confirm?

Roger Smith.

There is a £100 reward for a photo of Seafire 46 LA564 in the static park at the Little Rissington ‘Battle of Britain’ display – September 1946.
Mark

Just a glint in my Dad’s eye then….

Roger Smith.

Found it

A couple of weeks ago, prompted by Texan Tomcat I was looked through notes made (c.1972) from conversations and interviews with ex members of the East Midlands Aviation Co./East Midlands Flying Club at Sywell. The HM.14 Pou du Ciel, G-AEGV owned and on display at the Midland Air Museum had been constructed by members of the EMAC and flown a number of times at Sywell.

I remembered having found the old EMAC clubhouse (that had been re-located and re-used) 33 years ago. I recalled it was being used for storing apples in an orchard and was near a road junction but couldn’t find the road atlas (that I am sure I still have) on which I had marked it’s location. So into my notes and I found the original reference where one Frank Rouse said he thought it was.

My A3 laser printer has run out of toner – new toner cartridge approximately £140!! Solution buy 2nd hand A3 laser printer (with toner) for £10. So yesterday I had to drive to Cambridgeshire to pick it up and went via the A14.

The given location was only a few miles off the A14 so I thought “why not?” and off I trundled. I turned into the village and spent about 45 mins looking around finding nothing that looked right. Back out onto the main road intending to complete a circuit and was almost giving up when I found it! It IS in an orchard and it IS near a road junction (yet most days I can’t remember where I parked my car the previous night).

Now 80+ years old it looks in a bit of a state – most of the roofing felt is missing, a lot of evidence of woodworm and the floor is rotten in quite a few places. However it is wooden, sectional building and could be restored (if it was available) with enough time and money.

In 1972 I had a dream – to move and re-erect the building, put the Pou du Ciel inside it with other exhibits as an exhibition about between the wars private flying.

Roger Smith.

I share the outrage that the CAA seem to have kicked the organisers in the b*lls. Bedworth British Legion (I think) say they are the ONLY town in the UK to have held a remeberance service on November 11th every year – and they usually have a flypast.

I think the “missed target” incident a couple of years ago (when Air Atlantique’s Dakota’s poppy drop didn’t fall on the service below) could be put down to wind effect. I imagine the pilot had to choose between flying over the service and the poppys drifting away or flying out of sight so the poppys hit their target. Perhaps a member from AA will comment.

Roger Smith.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, Skyboy asked a sensible question. I guess it deserves a sensible answer!

Sorry Skyboy, you’ve only got me, but I’ll do my best!

Didn’t see my post a couple of days ago then? 🙂

Roger Smith.

Remember it is not the prototype Phantom – it is the first of a series of converted Phantoms built for the UK.Bruce

Am I right in thinking there was far more re-design to Anglicise the Phantom for the UK than other marks?

I worked on the brakes for the UK prototype during a spell in the Experimental Dept. when an apprentice at Dunlop in the ’60s. Made a right b*lls-up on a milling machine causing a large diameter “sun”(?) gear to be scrapped!

Roger Smith.

I can also remember a twin engine light a/c on which we were taught propeller swinging but I can’t remember the type.
Steve

Would this have been Beagle 206 G-ASWJ (8449M)?

Rolls Royce owned this aircraft and it was on loan to Halton. Many, many years ago they agreed to donate it to the Midland Air Museum once Halton no longer had a good use for it. However the MoD kept thinking it was theirs and had to be constantly reminded it wasn’t!

Eventually MAM got it and, in turn, loaned it to Brunel Technical College, Bristol where it is still (I believe) fulfilling a useful life in training future aeronautical engineers

Roger Smith.

Argosy XP409

Steve – the two Argosies on the airfield were later dismantled – with a JCB! along with the Vulcan and Comet. .

I have been trying to track down the fate of one of the Argosies – XP409 – since reading a letter in FlyPast a couple of years ago from a Paul Herbert.
He said that this Argosy had a steel nail from the blitzed Coventry Cathedral (presented to AWA at the time of the consecration of the new cathedral) installed within the fuselage – when XP409 was on the production line.
It has been suggested to me that the fuselage survives at Winterbourne Gunner.
Anyone help?

Roger Smith.