Where was the first one taken, Septic? Obviously not DX – looks more operational, particularly with what looks like a Vulcan JUST visible in the background and a BUFF as well. Fairford?

Adrian

Beware the Pun in the sun!

Well I know this forum descends into a playground every now and then but that is just ridiculous! 😀

Adrian

Cutting the grass with the B17…

Recently appeared in the Flypast B17 edition (about September? Didn’t look last night when I scanned this!). Credits as on the photo… (Edit: hard to read – Ken Ellis Collection)

I presume it’s Don Bullock in the pilot’s seat, as he was one half of Euroworld with Ted White. The caption said Duxford, but I am certain it’s Andrewsfield – I’ve got plastered a few times in the building in front of the hangar in the background… Given that there is a road across the top end of the airfield where Sally B is coming from and another at the far end of the runway remains he is flying along (the old perimeter track) I am glad I wasn’t on either that day, especially in anything tall. And there are trees at that end too… 😮

At least one person dropped their Cessna short of the runway in about 1984, and ended up with the nose of their plane through the hedge resting on the road! My parents were driving by, and passed before she got out of the plane – I think they thought they were imagining things, or they’d have stopped… Just imagine if Sally B had been dropped short… 😮

It must have been spectacular to see, but the risk…

Adrian

Forgive my ignorance (I have lots spare if anyone else wants some) but is that Yale with it’s cockpit under wraps? Or has someone been playing silly beggars with their Harvard’s undercarriage?

Adrian

I think that nice Mr Ferguson has found a new way of getting cheap booze back from Calais…

Adrian

That’s not a Barracuda undercarriage leg in the 2nd and 3rd shots down is it?

Adrian

Tell him it’s NOT from a Spitfire, offer to take it off his hands cheap THEN, once he’s taken the pittance you give, tell him it’s from something even rarer! :diablo:

Adrian
(just kidding!)

The pic at Finningly is exactly as I remember the Grafton Underwood tribute, I do have a black and white somewhere, no Idea where though – but it was too low by far

There are photos of Sally B doing a low pass at Andrewsfield I’ve seen a few times – hard to miss as she’s apparently flying up the grass. I’d guess it’s about the same height as that Woodbridge photo – too low by far!

Incidentally one of said piccy turned up in Flypast a few months ago, but captioned as somewhere else. Where it was captioned as escapes me now, but I recognised the (near-total absence of?) scenery in the background.

Seems as though there was an outbreak of low flying warbirds back then – just one pilot? Or still the done thing then?

Adrian