About 1946-7 my friend and I scraped together the necessary 10 whole shillings (50p for non believers) for a 20 minute flip in an Auster from Lympne. The pilot showed me how to haul the stick about, he was H Kennard (one of the Few)

It is interesting to note that the B1113 which runs past the cemetery is called Loraine Way

Don’t knock the good old Anson, a very reliable beast that would take you anywhere at a steady 120 knots.
Started my RAF career in them when they almost failed to teach me to be a navigator and finished it helping to lug trainee Air Electronics Orifices about. Most exciting moment came when a lightning strike carried away a trailing aerial and shattered the winch, I thought some silly so and so had fired a shotgun in the aircraft.

Or this one, but the background is still there

I echo Tin Triangle. We cannot thank those men enough.

A very interesting and evocative piece of film.
Note the use of a proper computor, spelt correctly into the bargain.

I wonder if we have any female viewers of this forum ? Perhaps a few have been roped in to view this particular thread.

Whatever, I would be very interested to hear the view from the distaff side 🙂

Speaking personally, I think on several levels that it is a very bad idea. :dev2::dev2: Doubtless I will be covered in ordure for that remark, but I stress that it is my personal opinion.
Intellectually they are doubtless more than equal to the task, BUT.

Mosquito NF 30 Brussels museum
Concorde Le Bourget Paris museum
I’ll cheat and say any three from the Kermit Weekes collection

At Home
Mosquito prototype Salisbury Hall, London Colney
SR71 Blackbird Duxford
Spitfire Mk 1 Duxford
Grumman Avenger FAA museum
Me 262 Cosford

Won’t win me any prizes but might motivate some travel plans.