Thanks for these Flyernzl, saved me a lot of hunting around.

John

It looks not unlike a Gipsy engined ( inverted Javelins)Scion. I do have a photo somewhere.

John

Come on chaps lets pin this pigeon.

John

I have a new scanner and will sort something out ASAP.

John

It wouldn’t be Aston Down would it? I went there in 1962 (I think) to help with the RAFGSA comps and two of the fascinating people I met were Flt Lt Lefty Kurilovics (former Polish Spitfire pilot and Fighter command ‘time in dinghy champion’) and an elderly gentleman those name I have sadly forgotten who I recall was an ATC gliding instructor. He had been a local boy at the end of the Great War and related how he had watched the departing airmen giving away stuff and burying rotary engines and other equipment in holes around the camp. I remember this quite vividly because the next day he presented me with a 1910 copy of the book “How to Fly” which he’d had since that time.

John

Sorry but my scanner has gone TU. So if you can put up another for me I’d be grateful.

Where was the illustration from, it looks like a Miranda drawing.

John

Sadly it would seem that with the exception of when Jack bruce and Bill Randle were involved, the RAF Museum has been run by people who really haven’t a clue. People who would rather spend huge sums of money on ‘Art’ such as the memorial to PO Prune and the ‘Irremovable Digit’ taking up car parking space, than repairing buildings and restoration and employing knowledgeable staff.

Does anyone know just what the achitects fee was for that ridiculous building at Cosford (two forces in juxtaposition my ace) and how many Beverley’s it would have restored.

As for these same vandals dangling aeroplanes, don’t get me started!

Our Heritage is safe in their hands.:mad:

John

Ben my Chree, Ian Burns, the story of Britains seaplane carriers. Very well put together and quite facinating insight into WW1 naval air operations. Especially the farce about a RNAS officer being granted a temporary commision into the Turkish forces so that he could supervise the blowing up of a Turkish railway station so the locals would not loose face.

John