Overflying your house to impress the girls… ever the fighter boy!

How you managed to use a Super Ikonta in a single-seater cockpit without a third hand or ending your days there and then in a smoking hole is beyond me. Having seen what you’ve posted in the past, though, I’m very glad you managed it. You posted a stunner a while back of Hurricanes leaving contrails taken from lower down in the formation. I’ll have to print it off and show my dad – his tales of watching contrails in 1940 (and parachutes the day it got a bit close) are what got me interested in the first place.

Now all you need is someone to squeeze a second seat into the Fury!

Adrian

That is extremely interesing, Julian. I must confess with some shame that I’ve never looked up the references you gave me…

Adrian

Nashio – Boston wings from Carnedd Dafydd…

Adrian

Fantastic! SWMBO heard a Merlin about 2.30 – she works at the end of an office furthest from the window – wonder who she heard?

Wish I’d known earlier – I’d have bunked off work for an ogle. I’m sure I’ll see plenty of SM520 in the Kidlington circuit, but not in such esteemed company…

Adrian

Back then, I WAS a local!

Adrian

I can believe that they’d be flown into somewhere other than Greenham Common (hey, with Welford just down the road, you’re talking first place for Brezhnev to nuke!). But Wethersfield?

Come on, the only thing flying into Wethersfield then was sparrows!

Adrian

That is bloomin’ stunning! Sadly, these pics are probably the closest any of us are going to get to seeing a Marauder in the air… I think I’ve bored you all with my soft spot for “Flak Bait” before, so I’ll shut up.

Adrian

Just SO MEAN!! The one machine I so much wanted to fly, after 75 hours on Harts & Hinds, but the squadron re-equipped.

Furricane? So right – just take off the top wing & you’re converted.

Oh, but do remember the undercarriage!!

= Tim

Would you visit it, Tim, or would it be too maddening for words to see it and not be able to get a flight?

Adrian