Pete,

I’m sure you know what I was getting at! Unobstructed approaches, more or less in the right East/West axis lending itself to two or three flyins per year and raising funds for the Museum plus putting Tangmere more emphatically in the public eye.

Perhaps a trial run sometime next year ?

The founder members of this museum were hounded out by inward thinking ,selfish trustees, for even suggesting such things could be done. (1992/3)

‘The weather stayed friendly and we both thought the Museum was much improved since our last visit when Nick Berryman was around’. ‘ raising funds for the Museum plus putting Tangmere more emphatically in the public eye.’
John Green’s comments are telling words.

We were even told that Aeromarts were not to be held there …and they were not…they went to Shoreham instead !!

This museum could have been so far ahead today if it had not been made a trust museum. Beware anyone ever thinking of doing the same as we did. IT DOES NOT WORK !!

Original G-BOML with Nick Grace

Some originals of G-BOML at Goodwood with Nick Grace

Xtangomike, what is the provenance of the photograph? That might help to put it in context. As with so many of these aeroplanes that were registered so close to the outbreak of hostilities, little of their fate is known. Most disappeared, without trace, during the conflict.

This picture came from a private collection, picture was taken at a village called” Le doulieu “ in France

i think beetwen 1928 –1935 ??

My first, one and only yoke. The plate says it all.
B of B Hurricane shot down Hayling Island in Jan 1941. Falkowski was shot down by rear gunner of He 111 at night. The gunner fired a last burst, through the flames of his doomed aircraft which splashed into the Solent seconds later, killing all on board.
Falkowski baled out and broke his leg on landing on the mudflats of Hayling Island. The aircraft crashed on land and was buried up to 15ft in clay soil.
I recovered it in 1971, but misplaced the plate years later. Does anyone know its whereabouts.?..I’m sure it went local.
I also sold the yoke to a good friend when times were hard in 1999.

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Well done Andy,
Good day for meeting many old friends and having a jaw. This was my last aero jumble stall and I had a good day. Sold (gave away) every thing left at 2 0’clock to a very pleasant stall holder next door to me, so not one item went in the car for the journey home. Your comments of days gone bye are very true Andy, some of the stalls looked more like old Beltring than an aerojumble. Hey ho ! nothing lasts for ever. The hobby has done me well over the years, and I have made many friends along the way. Look forward to being just a looker next year. GLA

Aaah, I think we were talking at slightly crossed purposes. I haven’t watched the film in many years, but there was, I think a scene with a ‘crashed German a/c’ with a decomposed body in it in some bushes/trees…… That was the ‘German’ a/c that I was thinking of. Hmmm…or was that in ‘Mosquito Squadron’…? Much of the same flying footage I think. Anyway, that was a Proctor for sure. S. I always presumed the aerial shots of ‘German’ a/c were ‘108 Taifun’s.

These two have the look of a 4 seat Saia Marchetti 208[ATTACH=CONFIG]223310[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]223311[/ATTACH] of the ’60’s era. Built in competition to the Piper/Beechcraft 2/4 seat light aircraft market.
They were quite quick with retracts and a high (straight up) fin/rudder. Not many about today. Last flew one in the ’80’s.

I was offered the Me109 as “you can take that old rubbish away”. Should have gone and got a trailer!

That was probably the oldest ‘109’ airframe in existence at the time and belonged to Robs Lamplough. It was a typical attitude of the Tangmere regime during that period. Dumb ex forces personal who couldn’t tell the difference between a priceless relic and a dustbin….they eventually dug up one of their own at Hove and then added bits from everywhere to make it look better.

God only knows how many precious items were ‘scrapped’ by them in the past, and how many of the same have slipped through their fingers ever since.