Go for it Daz; you won’t reget it. I’m sure there will be plenty of help and encouragement forthcomming. 🙂

EwenT.

OK then. As it seems to be time for ego trips, here’s me.:eek:

Posting multi images. 4 here.

Hi Neal

To post multiple pictures I put them onto a web page keeping the size down to 640pix x 480pix so they fit the Forum page without having to horizontal scroll to see them complete. To post the on the Forum use the IMG function using a seperate line for each one. Beware posting too many at a time as they slow up the thread loading.

Example:

On Sunday (17th Jan) the VAC held their first fly-in of the year at Turweston and were rewarded with 50+ visiting aircraft. Although there was no snow – it is called the Snowball fly-in – it was cold enough with a brisk crosswind. I was surprised not to see any composites but there was a good showing of RV’s. Here are a few pictures, worts and all, to give those unfortunate not to be there an idea of what they missed. There’s more if you want them.

Ewen

ps. Make sure you put a linespace between each image post.

Booker again

Reading philos’ post “Booker Images” set me thinking about the airshows they had back in the late 60’s and early 70’s and then he started this thread. Here is some more pics from the past.

Out of interest can anyone identify the Harvard pilot? (1971/1972)

To see nine pictures, including a larger one of the Harvard, click here

The aircraft in company with the Eindecker IS the Morane ‘N’ type, although I believe it was painted silver at one time.

Steve, are you thinking of the the Morane-Saulnier M.S.230 that was there – your description would be right for it.

As a young boy I used to holiday at Forres , Morayshire. We used to travel by train from Essex and take our bicycles as there was little or no public transport once we got there. We used to cycle to Findhorn and on the way pass Kinloss (FTS). Cycling out of Forres in another direction we used to pass the Forres airfield and there would be aircraft parked close to the road, Whitleys if I remember rightly. We were in Forres when airmen from Lossimouth marched passed to receive the freedom of the town. On another occasion when travelling home on the train my father struck up a conversation with an airman going home on leave and he had a large book (Janes?) with cut-away drawings of aircraft that kept me quiet all the way to Crewe. I think I can safely say that it was these holidays that got me started on aviation and I have never been the same since.
😀 😡

Corrected to Kinloss for Lossimouth – What was I thinking of??:o

Top ten models?

In our house I think the top 10 would be:

1 Dakota
2 Dakota
3 Dakota
4 Dakota
5 Dakota
6 Dakota
7 Dakota
8 Dakota
9 Dakota
10 Dakota

All 1/72nd scale in various guises as C47’s, DC3’s plus variants, in fact eighteen in all plus two more at 1/48th.:confused: 😀

As I remember, press reports at the time said an aircraft John Hawke had hired (a twin of some sorts) some months previously was fished up out of the Adriatic and that a body on board carried a Miami driving licence in the name of John Hawke. I seem to remember that the a/c was said to have had u/c and flaps down and showed damage inconsistant with that expected in a ditching. In the period since the a/c was first hired it had been repainted in “anti radar paint”. There were several rumours going the rounds at the time but I never saw them in print. This happened at the beginning of the troubles in Yugoslavia – modern history and I can not remember the year.

I met John Hawke in 1989 and again in February 1990 when I took him home to meet my sons who new of him from “Mitchells Do Fly IMC” but thats another story.

EwenT