Nobody has yet mentioned whether or not it is in Mark 12’s shed…

Adrian

Given that it’s at least 20 years since the Rebel Air Museum moved out, it’s not lasted badly – you’d expect it to be a pile of Daz by now.

Someone on here was planning to give it some TLC a year or two back -looks as though something else intervened.

Adrian

Seeing as the B24 just reappeared in this thread…

Am I imagining it, or has it got some very odd bomb doors fitted? I recall the B24 had a sort of roller blind arrangement (and I’m sure I remember reading somewhere that for some reason they’d slowly creep open on the ground), and whatever it has isn’t those. Sorry – doesn’t show in pics, spotted ita couple of weekend ago.

Adrian

Intriguing – I recall a recent Royal event (ie in the last two years) when the whole caboodle came over Oxford in a rather stretched formation – BBMF, Tornados, Typhoons, the lot, heading for Brize. Today we just got the Hercs and the HS-125s, then several hours later the Red Sparrows flew NE of Oxford going who knows where.

Adrian

June 6th was spent otherwise, I’m afraid, but on the 5th at long last I took the other half to Duxford, where she’s been wanting to go for years(!). We saw the Airborne Assault collection, marvelled at uniforms belonging to men that a relation had done the laundry for, wondered whether the video showed a jeep being dropped at G***t S******d, and generally enjoyed ourselves.

Low’n’slow, who has had the misfortune of meeting us, will be particularly delighted to hear that I had a total rush of blood to the head over lunch (I’m losing my job, so who knows when I could afford it again?) and went over to Classic Wings to see what was available. As a result we can now both boast that we have flown a Tiger Moth from a Battle of Britain airfield. I grinned so much I think I may have strained my jaw, and she’s much the same as me.

I must confess to a moment of panic as we turned onto the final approach and I suddenly thought “OH God – nervous passenger from hell here – what must I NOT grab if I have a flap?” As it was, I was mesmerised by the grass approaching, and the pilot greased it in as smoothly as you like.

Adrian

Monoplane Moth of some description (it was high, and I’m not very good on them!) over central Oxford about 1.05pm this arvo.

Adrian

Oooooooooh, lovely! By the time I remember it Wethersfield was pretty much out of all but occasional flying use, so it’s great to see it in its heyday.

So “Triple Zilch” was there… Well, well well. When I was a kid, my bedroom was decorated with the proof sheets of the photo pages from an Ian Allen book (no doubt if I ever find a photo, someone here will tell me which one), and I remember “Triple Zilch” from that. Plus Comper Swift, Avro 504… Nothing much to that, except that if I went into my parent’s bedroom I could see thre lights of the three (?) masts at Wethersfield from their window.

Adrian

Have you tried your local Air Training Cadets? That’s where my old FPs go, and they’re thoroughly grateful for them.

Adrian