That Sea Fury is a thing of beauty. As a lad my interest in aviation was stirred by my Dad’s vast collection of 40’s Flight magazines (wish I still had them!) and she is a perfect rendition of one of the rare colour photographs in Flight of the 40’s. Anyone know who the Flight photographers were at the time? Charles E Brown can’t have taken them all!

Hmmmmm… I can just picture the Mosquito, flanked by 2 (maybe 3!) Comets coming round the bend at OW. Dreamy stuff! Plus a Q6 for good measure……..

Flying his own aircraft didn’t do Frank Barnwell any favours!

Well the good news is that a very lovely Sopwith Camel is taking shape in Hangar 1.

Quite honestly AA my comments in #62 are addressed to whoever wants to wear them.
You if you want them.

This thread started with a ‘why don’t they’ moment, has moved on through a load more ‘why don’t they’ comments and although I’ve tried to explain some of the why’s and local wherefores we’re still in the ‘If I ran the place’ mode.
So that’s me done.

I don’t contribute much here anymore because all you get is people who are willing to do nothing, telling the few who are, how they should spend what is essentially their leisure time.

If it was easy Andy, everyone would be doing it. They don’t and more to the point most can’t to save their lives. I take my hat off to you guys at OW who do put the hours in in whatever capacity that may be. It sure brightens up my airshow season!

Every once in a while this forum comes up with a real gem of a thread – and this sure is a gem. Not a Spitfire in sight………….

Wow! Theres a sight for sore eyes! Thanks for the pic and the updates – it is very much appreciated.

I thought Aviation Jersey Ltd had the right from RR to supply spares and technical services for the Merlin and Meteor. If so, how far did the ‘technical services’ part of the deal extend?