02May15
The TFC Nimrod was out on the airfield for an engine run this morning but the engineers were still working on the engine back in the hangar when I left. Sitting out on the jet pan this morning were five French registered GA aircraft who departed during the afternoon for Headcorn. Classic Wings were busy having one of their ‘Tiger & Tanks’ days where you go flying in a Tiger Moth and have a spin in an APC up at the Land Warfare Hall tank track and a Chipmunk being the only war bird visitor. The ‘temporary’ American Air Museum in AirSpace is open to the public over the weekend but liable to close come Tuesday when more airframes are moved in.
Brian
30Apr15
The Catalina had engines running when doors opened this morning and then performed two practice displays and after refueling headed off to Le Touquet in French France. The camouflaged T.28 Fennec was going to go for a test flight and some aerobatics over the airfield but as it began its take off roll the nose wheel threw a wobbly and bounced off down the runway, minus aeroplane. The pilot was OK. The airfield was effectively closed until the T.28 was removed late in the afternoon. The Blenheim had a row rev engine run outside ARCo and then moved back to its parking place in hangar 3 which fortunately meant the war birds were moved outside for all the photographers, and there were a lot of them, to drool over. At the American Air Museum, they were dismantling the FSM Mustang and the P-47 was spied in hangar 5 behind the F-15 and the Avenger is in its new home in hangar 3.
Brian
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