Tried to get hold of the place yesterday, no luck.
Harry Hector is the guy ya want, he has a warehouse FULL to the rafters of P&W radial stuff right across the street from Burbank Airport.

I do recall as a child being taken to the Isle of Wight on a car carrying Hovercraft when my father was a rep and had to go there on business.

Doubtful, there was only passeneger hovercraft between Pompey & the IoW :confused:
I used to skive off school & go to the IoW on em, very smooth until ya hit a BIG wave….

I’ll phone the place Monday & find out if he still has some.

I think I mentioned it on here before:
’89 or ’90 (?) at Duxford, Mark Hanna was in the T33 giving a tuna ride (yanno what they are don’t ya?) & was spoken to after the flight for a “near miss”..

…..The guy who complained about the fly-by was taxiing a Piper Tomahawk across the end of the field. Dunno what all the fuss was about, he missed him by at least 3ft :diablo:

I actually have an eye on getting a Canadian Hurricane panel created at some point, but that is a distant aspiration for now. Can anyone suggest with whom and where I can get it done properly

Piece of sheet aluminum from the local metal supply place & a collection of hole saw’s & drill bits. It’s surprisingly easy once ya have a drawing/photo/wooden template to work from.

I was at Old Warden display a few years ago when a Harrier landed there. They had recently mown the grass ready for the air display, so the beast almost disappeared into a large cloud of disturbed grass clippings as it touched down which were then gently deposited all over the crowd and car park for the next 5 minutes by a very gentle on-crowd wind

I watched one at Duxford about 15 years back remove a 150ft section of grass just in front of the tower when it *almost* did a touch & go. :diablo:
Still got the pics someplace, but no scanner..