here is a small picture off me beside my car 🙂 sorry for the size

Why sorry? You look a very nice size!
(seeing as everyone who posts their piccy here seems to get at least one dodgy reamrk – is this a forum rule?) 😀

Adrian

Well, I’ve lurked around the edges of this forum as a passive enthusiast for long enough, and I’ve finally found a ‘plane-related photo as well! This is me ten years ago. I’m still just as untidy, I have just as much hair and it’s still just as badly distributed!

Grew up under the path DX-based toys took to avoid Stansted, helped by a father who grew up in Essex in WW2 I couldn’t really help but be interested… Sadly that’s about as far as it goes, but I enjoy the company here, I learn LOTS and I don’t seem to have mortally insulted anyone(yet…).

Adrian

P.S. Your starter for five – where am I, and wottizzit?

I had a copy and lent it to someone!

M

Not me, worse luck, because I’d like to read the full version one day. Question is once you knew what his job was, would you board a plane with him?

Adrian

I seem to recall that the aircraft are period American fighters wearing black crosses – as to which ones, not sure – P1 rings a bell, but…

I also recall reading a Readers Digest Condensed Book written by a cahp who did some of the stunt flying for Wings – seemed he wheedled his way onto active service on B17s in the ETO despite being well into his forties at the time.

Anyone else remember this, or are the old marbles going?

Adrian

Mr Mysterious! So a Spit that late would have a cartridge starter, then? (which is what I was trying to get at in the first place)

Adrian

It is one and the same, there is only one Tornado in Bicester, as Damien says outside the DLO facility at Arncott. The devil only knows why it is there.

Yep, Arncott, knew it was one of those villages.

Adrian

ZA319 Gate guard, Bicester

Is that the depot at Arncott/Murcott? Battle damage repair school, or some such? South east of Bicester, up some fairly minor roads?

Adrian

Yes, there were days when I was on my hands and knees scrubbing toilet bowls wondering what the hell I was doing when I could have been making use of my degree in a nice warm skank free office somewhere, but those feelings soon passed. 😉

Good lord, how odd!

I was looking to get a job with my degree when I saw a Museum Assistant (bog cleaning etc) job advertised at Duxford. Now that was the one job I would happily have binned my degree for! As it was it was May-October, so I could carry on jobhunting.

They didn’t offer me it! Even more annoying, it took til October to get a job so it would have fitted perfectly…

So we are opposites! (cue “Twilight Zone” music). And here I am in a skank-free lab using my degree and reading about Duxford…

Adrian