G46

Hi young Tom, you’re not still there are you? Call me sometime or see you on the 17th (you know where) K.

G46 at Booker

No problem on landing this end. I live right under the flightpath for Booker and was cleaning the car when she went in and decided to go and have a quick look.She taxied in fine and disappeared between the hangers .

Model Collection

This is some my collection which is 90% 48th but I do like to do 72nd if the subjects right. I only really do RAF & US but again if the subjects right then I’ll diversify. I have also done a few reviews and a forthcoming P40 artilce for Scale Aircraft Modelling (next month or 2 I believe). The Avenger is the new Trumpeter 32nd scale kit and is superb and I can highly reccommend it.
Anyway this is just a sample of what I like to do.(other than watching real ones of course!)

Instrument panel ID

Fly Buy, Just out of interest are any of the instruments marked ‘PIL’ then a
number then a date? If they are then they were repaired by the company I work for and we MAY have records which would at least tell you who the company was who the aircraft originally belonged to. Can’t promise anything and obviously it wouldn’t be till Monday. Hope this helps.I’d also need the type and serial number of the instrument concerned. I do recognise most of them (type wise I mean).

Nice to know I’m not the only one who was inspired by all the early Greenhams, as I was only about 13/14 at the time I didn’t really have access to a decent camera but dad always took super 8 cine film. I know somewhere I’ve got footage of the now Cosford Liberator doing a fly by at the end of the 1974 show. I assume that it had just arrived from India?
Everytime I drive past the airfield now I always like to take a walk around the old control tower and reminisce about what was parked where etc.Everyone remember all those C130s and Hunters? They have also preserved a peice of the main runway which if I remember correctly is just about on the intersection of the taxiway where the early FIAT enclosure was. In fact when they were breaking up the runway many years ago I ‘aquired’ a couple of peices for our rockery (don’t tell anyone though!) A few years ago I got to know someone at Newbury council who said that the control tower was going to made into a visitor centre and I offered to loan
them all my programmes and photos (such as they are) for an IAT display but nothing ever came of it. Anyone know what happened to the idea? Cost and undoubted vandalism possibly? Oh happy days.

Keebird video

I have a copy of the original CH4 TV programmes (with the adverts cut out!)which were called Treasure of the Humbolt Glacier. The first one was transmitted on 22.4.95 with the tragic update (and resume) a year later on 7.4.96. I have no way of copying them but if you’d like to borrow (and/or copy) them let me know. I’m hoping to be at Duxford tomorrow so I can bring them along too.I will have a look in the shop though as I’d like a copy of it on one tape. Hope this helps

I’m going to go with the flow on this and say Abingdon but GVFWE comes a good second. OK not strictly an ‘airshow’ but I do usually get to fly in (as a passenger mind) 🙂 which does make it more interesting.