I thought this was a good date for the aerojumble. Numbers of people seemed high, and the warmer weather kept people hanging around longer too. I’d vote to make this date change permanent.

Good update Elliot.

I am sure I heard the lovely sound of a rattling radial engine late yesterday afternoon to the west of Witham.

Any ideas I am sure it was heading north to south but I just could not see it?

It looked like a grey coloured Yak to me. I was driving north up the A130 south of Chelmsford.

I would love to see a Hurricane MKIID flying with the underwing cannon fitted.

Vickers 40mm “Tank Buster” configuration in desert colours.

CeBro. The project to recreate a Master involved much original material collected at Breighton. There was an illustrated article in an edition of “Flypast” about it at the time (1980s I think). It didn’t progress and the parts reportedly ended up down south – some I think at Hawkinge.

Hi Consul,
Yes, everything is now in the museum store at Hawkinge, except for one pair of Master wings that were used on the Berkshire Martinet. I surveyed all of the parts 2 years ago, and there is enough there to make a good static, if someone can make some accurate layout drawings to help piece it all together.

The Museum of Berkshire have a superb carpenter and draftsman; Ian Simmonds. He started with the remains of the Martinet, and very few original drawings. With assistance from members of the museum, they have rebuilt a superb exhibit.

Ian told me once, that lack of many drawings for extinct, or fragmented Miles aircraft in general will prevent accurate, if not flying restorations in the future.

Hi,

I’m sure Naylan would be interested in one aswell.