If you contact Colonel Marek Lisiak (Defence Attache) at the Polish Embassy in London he can give you the tel no. for Mr. JB Cynk (I have lost it) who is a Polish AF historian.

I have just seen her a couple of hours ago on my first visit to the Museum at Hurn – a beauty. The Sea Fury was looking good too.
The museum there is well worth a visit and there is a balcony you can go up to which overlooks the maintenance area where the Sea Vixen is kept. I also went into the Vulcan Cockpit of XH537 which was a first for me.

Here is another one about to land on zero six along with Bristol Freighter G-AICT thrown in for good measure

I remember seeing a copy of Flight International in the late 60’s which had a picture of a Donaldson Britannia landing on 06 and just clearing the top of the barn like building. In 1968 or 69 myself and a couple of friiends were allowed to look around the Channel Airways Maintenance facility so long as we didn’t get in the way and we even walked up the single taxiway (from the maintenance area to the main runway) part way to watch a a Channel Viscount landing. It wouldn’t happen today.

I appreciate this is an aviation forum but I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction to try and find out about someone who died at Beaumont Hamel in WW1 and to see if they have a grave? I think Beaumont Hamel was part of the Battle of the Somme. I only have a name not a regiment. Any help much appreciated.
Many Thanks
OG

when I was on holiday from college I used to visit my parents in Abu Dhabi who knew many ATCOs at the airport and one of them told me that an Abu Dhabi Defence Force Mirage had cut in front of a BOAC VC-10 on approach. The Captain of the VC-10 was furious and complaints were lodged etc but nobody ever found what happened (if anything). The Mirage pilots were a law unto themselves. I used to sit in the tower some mornings and on one occasion they informed the tower that 4 of the Mirages wanted to do a formation take off so two commercial flights had to hold while they taxiied up the whole length of the runway from the ADDF apron and got into position. this took nearly 20 minutes while they started up their engines and taxiied out. This was at the old airport not the newer one.

I don’t know anything about window sizes but it drives me nuts when I can’t get a window seat. For me one of the pleasures of flying is not just the aircraft/airline/airport etc but being able to see where you are passing over. One of the best flights for that was flying back from Kinshasa in the Congo in a Swissair MD-11 and passing over tropical rainforest, the Sahara, the med and then into Geneva with the surrounding mountains. We stopped at Douala in the Cameroon and a Royal Flight Bae 146 had landed just before us with Prince Charles and Lady Di on an official visit. There was also a Cape Verde Nord 262 (I think) – I cursed myself for packing my camera in my suitcase.