yep Gatwick was great into the late 70’s/early 80’s as anything remotely interesting on a delivery flight used to route through there.. remember chasing down there late one night to see some Cuban Antanovs… made a change for a LHR spotter to see all the foreign charters.. CP Air + Capitol DC8’s, Evergreen C130’s, the regular Canadian AF C130/B707…etc etc etc those were the days, especially as I could get from LHR to LGW for 50p return on the greeline coach using one of their day rovers tickets – if you got up early enough you could ‘do’ LHR/LUTON/LGW/LHR on the bus in a day for 50p..
aaah..
Neil 😀 🙂 🙂
current one I took last week towards the end of a night shift… but the previous days one was aviation related!
bet it cost him less to refuel the Sea Fury than it did his hire car when he was over here! 😀
so are we gonna see Ashley, Janie and Anna draping themselves over MH434 next Duxford forum meet?!!! 😀 :dev2:
have you got any suppliers in your area that supply parts for old British bikes, as that the sort thing that they may well keep.. theres several UK old bike suppliers that do these.. I’ll have a look later..
Neil.
well thank-you!! that perked up my Friday evening!!!
Neil.
Spitfire Displays..
if anyone is up this way, the Spitfire is due to fly at East Kirkby on Sat 11th at 1500 with Lanc taxi at 1330, and also Sat 25th at 1500, with Lanc runs at 1330 and 2000.. I did ask today if they had dates for the proper winter night runs, should have a list next week…
Mr. Andy has been doing some research recently concerning the British government’s investment in sleeve valve technology during the war. Maybe he can enlighten us with some facts and figures…
Sorry to hear about Ellsworth’s problem in Camarillo. Hope it’s nothing serious.
Steve
so thats what Andy does in his shed..
spooky, just finished reading Piece Of Cake this afternoon and this is mentioned in the Authors notes… only details there though are 6th Sept 1939, formation of Spitfires shot down 2 Hurricanes whilst Anti_aircraft gunners destroyed a Blenheim..
Neil.
Yep operating out of Southampton as booked for Goodwood and White Waltham amongst others as well as Duxford..
does that badge say Goose or Maverick… 😀
..and his legs have grown back in this picture! … thourght he was the infamous DB impressionist on holiday in Liverpool there for a moment… 😀
someone get the Red Cross to send him some uniform issue socks pleeease!
so are the moves in preperation for the the new building?? I thourght that wasn’t happening this soon??
The weather was a tad interesting today, tipping down with rain,howlign wind at one stage but luckily a bit of blue sky for ‘the Majors’ display… apparently there was a photographer there from Flypast so hopefully there’ll be some decent flying shots in the magazine sometime.
Neil.
theres loads of them!!
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll
but the one you’re after was actually recorded on a solo Robin Gibb LP as oposed to a Bee Gees one.. its on Secret Agent from 1984
CD Mirage 90170-2
Atco 90170
AND NO I’M NOT A BEE-GEES FAN!!! JUST IN FROM NIGHT SHIFT AND FANCIED A LITTLE CHALLENGE BEFORE HITTING THE SACK!! 😀
time for bed…. Boing!