Timely reminder. Thank you.

Moggy

Agreed and hard to believe its now ten years. I will never forget the paired display he did I guess around 08 -or 09 at the last Duxford show of that season, September or October. Flying the other Spitfire was Cliff Spink, the loops and tight formation they kept between both aircraft was simply breath taking. Coupled with a day that had a slight haze it was akin to taking a step back in time, watching two maestros performing at their absolute peak. I have yet to see a display to better this, I would hope it was captured on video, does anyone have a link please? RIP Grey Hammer as he was called by my then young son.

Still current in the GA world – Yak 52 for instance.

Moggy

Re built and fitted to our Proctor 3. Time will tell how efficient or otherwise they are!!

Can anyone help please. I have some poor copies of Percival model shop drawings which I am re-drawing. They generally seem to be pretty good. However on two drawings for the Proctor III the distance between the wing trailing edge and the tailplane leading edge don’t match.

This is required for a model drawing so can anyone with access to a full size Proctor help please..

Thank you.

John

Stand by John, need to get across to the workshop and measure our Mk 111. Back early next week latest.

Just wondering if anyone fancied meeting up?

I shall have my trusty Black Mamba with me:

and probably at least one weird old film camera. Actually, at an OW airshow, that’s not a very good set of ID’ing points. Oh well!

Adrian

I shall be flying in landing between 12 and 12-30. With me will be Les Miller aged 87 and wheel chair bound. He worked on my Proctor back in 1944 and loves anything to do with flying. Its been a few years since he was last at OW lookimg forward to it enormously.

As I said I did not know it was on but would have jumped in one of the classics and gone if not a prebook. I think you can loose lots of visitors on a day like this but also you get monies in if its metted off

We flew in at around 14-00 hours without PPR. Calling up safetycom from 15 miles out we were made most welcome and from what I could see it was a pretty good attendance. Fabulous to watch the Albatross being pre flighted then swung into life, what a sound! A lovely display in nigh on perfect conditions with superb passes showing both top and lower sides. Hard to imagine a squadron of these taking to the air, the noise and spectacle would have been something! Nice to see the BE2 and Sopwith Snipe in the line up, Stow Maries really is making great strides with the renovation of the buildings and general making good. Flying back to Suffolk later was in the best visibility I have flown in this year. Joining overhead home base at Rougham you could clearly see the city of London skyscrapers in the distance. Well worth a visit if you haven’t already been and now beginning to take on the feel of an “Old Warden” of the east!

Seconded.

And interesting to see what seems to be quite a high gloss level on the paint, or was it after rain??

A fellow TA owner and member of the MG-TABC group has a useful website if one is TA interested:

http://www.billdavis.org/MGTA/

I wish my TA was worth the numbers expected at the auction. I think windovers valuations are fair for the current market. The provenance is therefore expected to nearly double a good price. Black was a common colour for TAs; mine is with a red interior.

DAI

Classic cars are my field (http://www.vandp.net) I am confident the car will make the sum and quite likely more. Market has been strong for past 3-4 years and showing no signs of slowing. Pre war MG’s always in demand, add a famous owner such as Bader and wait for the punters to roll up.

Well done to all at OW for a superb flying evening yesterday. Their shows just seem to get better and better, but a Sopwith Snipe, Albatros DVa, 4 Magisters, 2 Mew Gulls, Comet, Dragonfly, Foster Wickner Wicko, Hornet Moth, Puss Moth, & Leopard Moth all in one show? I don’t know how you can better that.

One question. Where is Dorothy the Clayton and Shuttleworth traction engine? I haven’t seen it this year.

Really sorry I missed this one holiday to blame. Sounds like a great display, I thought the race day event was the best Shuttleworth show I have attended in over 40 years of visits. Sounds as though its been eclipsed!!
Hope that before long I can add a wartime Proctor into the mix!