I remember when the RNAF F-27 was doing the airshow circuit some years ago, an impressive display indeed.

A few old (1987) pictures of the famous RNAF F-27 display.

The blue Canberra, shortly after its arrival in Cornwall in 2013, seen behind the Percival Prentice.

I’ve worked at Schiphol from 1965 until 2002 and can confirm that it’s hangar 7 at Schiphol indeed. In later years it was the main hangar for general aviation. For several years I’ve also played badminton with “Airsport” in part of the hangar before we moved to a better suited accommodation on the northern part of the airport.

PH-DDZ “Doornroosje” (Sleeping Beauty) will be sadly missed in her very nice Martin’s Air Charter livery. The livery was designed by well-known Dutch aviation artist Thijs Postma, who also painted the picture for me which is shown in my avatar.

Viscount Stephen Piercey at Brooklands

I believe the Viscount at the Brooklands museum is named after him.

Another pic of ex. G-AMCA in orange livery

Much missed at Dx, certainly by me anyway, together with the beautifully finished T-33 that was lost.

A few other Saab Safir’s

In my initial training for air traffic controller I’ve made quite a number of flights in Saab 91D Safir aircraft of the Rijksluchtvaartschool Holland (Government Flying School). It was a very nice aircraft to fly, only retracting the landing gear was a bit hairraising at first. You had to push a lever forward to do so (which required quite a bit of strength), but inexperienced students then also had a tendency to push the control column forward too! There are still a few examples of those 91D’s in airworthy condition in the Netherlands. The Rijksluchtvaartschool altogether operated 8 Saab 91A Safir (1950-1960) and 22 Saab 91D Safir (1960-1982) aircraft for the initial training phase.

A few pictures from 1965

And a few more recent ones

A few weeks ago in the Newark Museum