I intend going this year (have always missed it due to work and other comitments thus far) and there is a slight chance i will be able to fetch my Auster fuselage frame, that is providing i get it looking like a viable restoration project and not like its just been dragged out of the scrap pile. there are a couple of tubes to replace and decorroding / painting to be done beforehand though.

Greg

Great shot of the inner ring road Paul, i have taken similar ones looking towards york road from near the ABC cinema (is that still there?) just behind where you took your shot if i have my bearings right. i will have a look through my pics but i think just about all of them have wingie thingies on them,

all the best.

Greg

Sad news, another great screen icon takes the final bow. my deepest respects to her family and friends.

Greg

If i may i will kick off my first post here this year (and first for too long a while) with a few shots of one of the BoBMF Chipmunks getting some TLC

all the best.

Greg

Hiya Martin,
I have one in my collection unbuilt (it even has the ‘new’ star marking on the box). they are still available from time to time. if you want i will try and find one for you. shoot me an e-mail on [email]landyman2006@fsmail.net[/email] if you’re interested. i’m fairly certain i can get you one.

all the best.

Greg

NICE…. well. me wanna see, me wanna see…….
hey. they havn’t forund and restored that old Ford Cortina estate that i saw driving round the airfield that was painted in Luftwaffe WW2 cammo have they? is THAT the secret they are hiding? LoL.

thanks for the heads up Anna.

all the best.

Greg

firstly. got to admit i don’t know straight up about trains…., on the subject in hand though. Trinny. your gesture was a great one offering a flight to aircraft enthusiasts. personally i would never turn down a flight, and it would be more than breakfast i’d stump up for. more like a three courser at Frankie and Bennies.;-) i used to go on trips with a local ‘aviation society’ and all they were interested in was darting from airfield to airfield and logging the numbers. on one trip we got to an airfield ( mignt have been at Bourn iirc) there was a type i was unfamiliar with. took pictures but couldn’t see any id apart from the reg, asked one of my traveling companions “what type is that” ( i didn’t have a spotters bible btw) his comment “i dunno, got its number, thats all i’m interested in”. kinda says it all really. incidentally, it turned out to be a Gardan Horizon. on another occasion i helped the pilot of a cessna skymaster pull his aircraft out of the hanger. he said he would take some of us up for a half hour jolly if we wanted. i was all for it but the others said “we havn’t got time. too many airfields to visit”. ho well. never got a skymonster in my logbook. that was the last trip i went on with them. one other thing. sometimes if a pilot is going out of the circuit an extra pair of eyes can be usefull. utilise the spotters and brief them on keeping a look out. just a few views from the other side of the fence, as was.

all the best.

Greg

i agree with the stripper. hey N, i still havn’t forgot about getting that runway mesurement for you. but have a few concernes. will PM you on the Chipmunk forum.

all the best.

Greg