From tiny acorns…..

Roger Smith.

that’s two Germans in the pic but only one wee 😀 😀 😀

Roger Smith.

Saw Jesse James thread before this one and posted on there. However a couple (more) comments about today applicable here.

G-AMRA as well as the red nose and the name “Rudolph” when it was on the apron waiting for it’s next load of passengers had a piece of card inside the cockpit window with a large reindeer eye painted on it 😀

At the end of the day I saw Will J’s bike leaning against a post on which was a sign saying “Danger – ejection seat live” 😀 :diablo: 😀

Roger Smith.

I spent my first day (on probation ? 🙂 ) as a ground support volunteer with the Classic Flight. What a cold introduction but what a friendly bunch.
It was great to talk to visitors who had come to Coventry to fly in the Dak including two lots from Sussex.
Another chap (from the Fens) had done his national service in the RAF in the early fifties and had flown in quite a few types – this was his first time in a Dakota. He had been a fireman and had spent 18 months with 605 Squadron at Honiley (his flight today must have gone very close to Honiley whilst transitting between Warwick and Kenilworth). He told me a tale of a Supermarine Attacker taking off from Honiley loaded with ordnance, about 3/4 down the runway a wingtip hit the ground and there was an almighty explosion. His fire vehicle sped to the scene but no aeroplane the explosion had leap-frogged it “a half mile” where it came down wrecked but substantially whole – the pilot unharmed!! Was he spinning me a yarn?
A great day, the first of many (if I’ve passed the test!)

Roger Smith.

PS I’m not the Roger Jesse is referring to above 🙂

That’s the first Stampe I’ve seen with a flat engine. Anyone know how many more there are around?

IIRC one of the several Stampes on display in the Brussels Museum has a flat engine.

Eoger Smith.

Is this the one recovered by Mark Evans’ Midland Warplane Museum? I believe they have some of the collection at Baxterley in Warwickshire.

Roger Smith.

Whoever designs/decides I hope it’s not the same person that introduced the new UK car registration numbering system :confused: 😀

Roger Smith.