My story was better though :rolleyes:

Moggy

😀 😀
fair shout matey

Belated birthday greetings,Melv
glad you had a good ‘un at Popham,only sorry I couldn’t make it

Great pics Jonathan!

I managed a few but was busy with the Rapide pleasure flying most of the time. Not an easy thing to try and do when you are not allowed to take off or land whilst they are racing!!

Tom.

Tom
was that you flying over Didcot Sunday evening in formation with the Prentice.
Seemed to orbit just to the S-E of the town before heading North…lovely sight in the fading daylight
keep ’em flying,matey
Colin
Oxfordshire Aviation Group

On behalf of the VAC,I’d like to thank all who came to Turweston this afternoon and made it a very successful day,among others I noticed Haireyplane,Melvin,Man-on-the- Fence,G-ASML,NeilP,Andrew-O as well as Armwaver and myself.
For the record over 200 aircraft had announced their intentions to visit,and although the numbers weren’t that high there were some real gems for us marshallers to play with..Melv’s Rearwin,HP’s Maggie and Ryan(& Robin),G-ASML’s Luton Minor,2xMessengers,Curtiss-Wright Travel Air,Druine Turbi and of course the Vimy,which for such a large aircraft was incredibly easy to push from the hard surface apron to the grass….
Thank you all(& thanks for making my arms ache like anything this evening)
Colin

Roger
come on down,matey….
should be no problems this time
Colin

I seem to recall reading many moons ago that Reg Halam (spelling?) who I think flew the maiden flight of Black 6 nearly came to grief when taking off from Benson on this first flight. I believe he hit a rut causing a heart stopping moment for those watching. I seem to recall he didn’t fly black 6 again and it was moved to Duxford for a better surface. Maybe someone knows whether this was true or not. Any way I’m very pleased the pilot is OK, I take my hats off to anyone who fly’s a 109, given that they are difficult to handle on the ground.

I have detected that a number of you who saw Red 7 fly earlier in the year are not surprised that it has come to a sad end. This is very disappointing given that we have a lot of experience about to help avoid these sorts of accidents. When will owners take on board the lessons of the past 30 years?????? I’m not making any particular statement here but rather expressing my huge disappointment at what happened.

Tempestnut
was on spotter’s corner at Benson on that Sunday morning,and can tell you it did cause the heart to skip a beat or two.From what I remember,Black 6 did hit a rut,I think causing the propellor to just scrape the turf(though I may be incorrect on that point).
The drama continued when towards the end of the flight Black 6 was heard on the scanner talking to Benson.She was overhead Chalgrove preparing to return to Benson but could not lower the undercarriage.Needless to say this was sorted and she landed safely.
Wass always pleased to see her at an airshow,as,even when based at Duxford,she was always Benson’s warbird
hope this helps
Colin
Oxfordshire Aviation Group

http://www.coomunigate.co.uk/oxford/oag

Is there an official start time for this event ?

Hi Andrew-O
all being well things should start happening by about 1000hrs
hope the weather’s better than this last weekend,eh
Colin