Not at all, it made me smile!

Adrian

About 2pm this afternoon a silver Harvard with yellow underwings did three passes over St Edwards School, Oxford. Given that St Ed’s old boys included Bader, Warburton and Gibson, and one of the masters was on the RAF selection board which supposedly led to a startling number of the officer pilots of the BoB being St Edwards old boys, I presume it was part of theuir remebrance commemoration.

Adrian

A Stuka.

A Stuka?

Seriously? A STUKA?

Roger me with a prize leek and call me Nigel – that is incredible!

Could the Swedes be persauded to send their B17 over to join it? That would be an airshow pairing!

Adrian

I’ll comment, as a limey. (it’s cheap, but it’s all I’m paying for!).

They’re keeping quiet until it’s on TV – or so I was told by the chap on their stall at Brize. The usual TV money thing I guess. Should be fairly soon. There’s lots of it, even if some of the bits are quite small. Certainly more than there was of the most recent Hurricane resto to fly, V7497, to start with.

Adrian

Well, the Andover has the dihedral tailplane and the exhausts could be mistaken for the Sperrin’s stacked engines. I could believe that (do the dates fit, anyone?), but I’m not going to believe it’s an Ashton until I see a photo of one with an engine fit that explains that rear view and the dihedral. As a testbed it’s possible, but not until…

Adrian

It’s just taken me about two minutes to upload a reply (no piccies, just text), and the last poster is still out of kilter with the thread when you visit.

You might not find she had a dispersal as such – at Bassingbourn the aircraft were often dispersed up the avenue of elms leading to Wimpole Hall.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bassingbourn+cum+Kneesworth,+Royston/@52.1111894,-0.066976,8825m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4877d4144d931257:0xa71078664c86a131!8m2!3d52.0798126!4d-0.0538964

It’s the linear feature running due North up the middle of the image.

Adrian