Copyright

Oscar Duck – a shot from the hip –

Nobody in their right mind would expect an unsolicited approach from a photographer saying, ‘thanks very much, I’ve just taken a photo of your aeroplane, here’s a tenner’.

Far better in my experience to afford photographers every courtesy, understand that what they might make from the occasional sale is likely at best to make a contribution only to their costs and hope that they might take the trouble to let you have a copy.

Every photographer mentioned in this thread is well known to me. I have taken them all flying, offered my machines as camera ships etc. – all at zero cost. The net result is a circle of good blokes – wags all – and a very nice collection of superb images to pore over long after I have hung up my goggles.

Chill on this one. There will be a net benefit to you. You might be able to fly a plane, you might be able to point a camera. However, you cant take one of you in your bird. Also, the skills of these guys confine a ‘good’ snap to the dustbin. Get yourself a collection of Blacow, Burkes, Knox etc. etc. and you’ve done very well indeed.

I cant wait to see some shots of the DR1’s first flight but I can guess who’ll be there at the crack of sparrows….. 😉

All the best

Hairy

Jackaroo

Blimey,

No wonder so many of them were ‘re-converted’ back to the boggo Tiger!

What a wierd machine. I bet its not too pleasant to fly either? Don’t get me wrong, if somebody wants to put me in the left hand front (or left hand rear?!) seat thats just dandy by me. I promise to tell lies about it if it really is a dog…..

Hairy

Nature isn’t always kind…

It was me, it was me! I was going in to buy a tube of balsa cement…er….for somebody else.

Not really….20 years ago and I was still a cop fighting with drunks in Gravesend Kent ( or at least as a Sergeant my blokes were…) My car at the time would have been a fifty quid wreck – I used to do them up on the side to supplement our awful pay.

I bumped into my ex wife last year (I would have been married for 34 years this year if I hadn’t got divorced after 4…..)

Aaaaaargh!

She was a doll as a teenager and not bad when a saw her last about 20 years ago but..oh dear….Fat as a barrel, rotten teeth and grey roots. Frightened the life out me when I saw a face I recognised on someby elses jowls and on top of all that waddling lard.

Porsches? Never driven one. Still tearful about flogging my beautiful DB5 after 25 years of ownership last year but an expanding collection of flying machines is taking my mind off it.

Take my advice Janie 😉 ….cherish the memory and do nothing more with it. I’m not saying that us older blokes aren’t worth a look…I still managed to pull the gorgeous Nicky and she’s 12 years younger. Phooooaaaar!….

I’ll get my coat……

Hairy

OOS Registrations

Out of sequence registrations

Don’t let the huge cost of ‘special’ car registrations – often silly and invariably illegaly spaced – fool you into thinking that an OOS aircraft registration will cost big bucks.

Provided it has never been used before, and isnt offensive, the CAA will let you have it with pleasure for the grand sum of £160 on top of the usual registration fee.

Many civil aircraft registrations relate to the business of the company that owns the thing.

I have 2 OOS registrations that do just that for mine.

A pity that they cannot ever be transferred under the current CAA ruling.

Hairyplane

Resin model

Looks like a Miles Hawk to me, the pre-war version of the Magister. MMMMmmm.

I found a resin model of the Falcon in Sweden. In fact, a resin model of my actual aircraft in Swedish WW2 military colours.

HP