slightly O/T but:

thanks VoyTech – I assume this was Piknik Lotniczy Góraszka 2005…. ?

So it’s the first appearance of SHF’s “Old Crow” at an airshow this year !

Dziekuje bardzo !
Martin

Chris – it’s easy to find – the memorial is directly on the road from Steeple Morden to Littlington (name of the road is Littlington Road) – klick on link to Multimap above (post #4).

My only problem during my visit there after Legends 2003 (before having dinner at “Chequers” in Fowlmere) was that in the evenings, the sun is directly behind the memorial, thus making it rather difficult to take decent photographs.

Martin

I think it’s Spanish – here’s a sister ship: EA-EAE

note the same letter-style, the same fuselage band and the same position of registration on the fuselage.

so the one in the initial photo supposedly is EA-EAG 😎

Martin

Some pics of the (enlarged) memorial, Summer 2003

Martin

I didn’t know you were a ‘swinger’ Martin! 😮 😮 😮

😀 @ Mike J

Mike J

I fully agree – I didn’t mean to put the blame on ebay itself for the development of prices – this clearly is caused by the insanity of some bidders with (obviously) more available funds than brains –

but I do regard a place like ebay as a construct that can produce evil behaviour in people while fighting over an item – it’s beyond rational boundaries – it sometimes even feels like war. At such price-levels as seen it the actual example, it can no longer be for collecting things only – it is to be better than everyone else, at no matter what price. That’s evil.

And it’s very tiresome for collectors and historians (like me) to see important items go beyoned any reasonable price-level, and by that also creating evil thoughts……

I hope my “Swinglish” (Swiss-English) makes any sense now.
Martin

Holy smokes !

nice item, but again exorbitant prices on ebay.de…! Where is this leading when “sudek13” only makes 3rd place nowadays….?

this really is e(vil)bay

Martin