I hear through the grapevine the S-38 will be back here in 10 days or so and then it’s off to the Riviera and Italy.

I’d like to find out where I can get a Twin Bonanza book from. Will search for the site.

trouble is that every Beechcraft book I’ve seen reads like a company brochure. I reckon Beech kept a very tight rein on anyone wanting access for research purposes sadly.

Hampy

With respect, I think when your number is up, it’s up mate, no matter where you sit or stand. My local airfield is great, which is why I fly there and photograph. No self-important dayglo bib or security mentality.

Many years ago, a light aircraft spun in and came to a terminal stop on the concrete three metres away from a hangar door where some friends often stood watching passing aeroplanes.

Gee, thanks guys, for the Sinatra story – what fascinating reading! Wonder how many fuel stops it made to get across the pond – that’s a long way for a Lear 24.

I have to confess that the ‘War Picture Library’ series and Battler Brittain firmly nourished a lifelong fascination for warbirds. Then it was PILOT magazine for all the lighties. Sure, some Biggles stuff but the small format World War Two comics at school educated me on the rarer types in service.

I was in WH Smith last week in Wimbledon and came very close to buying one of those War Picture Library ‘reprints’ to indulge in some childhood memories. Maybe next time.:cool:

C’mon guys – I know you all like to show off with your command of airport codes but some of us are from different continents – so quit the NCLs and EDIs etc.

The ever growing nanny state and wondering if its pernicious progress is inherently British.

It saddens me whenever I encounter it.

Oh, and those who dawdle in supermarket car parks trying to find a space nearest the entrance and blocking other drivers.

Phoning up a big defence contractor to talk to a mate who works there and being treated like I was the head of procurement for the Taliban. Hello, do I speak with an Afghan accent or something?

Here’s my first car: A Daimler Conquest! Never managed to get it beyond trade plates but had endless fun charging up and down the village high street.