The airfield in the last one is Farnborough.

No.2 is an F-111F.

Nice pic’s, Looks like it was a little brighter than sunday when i was there.

9. Ollie’s

I thought it was around then, It made me smile when i heard Gary insisting that Norman carried on to go and get some display money rather than fly back to duxford with him.

I remember one saturday hearing a couple of harvards flying over so i turned on my scanner and listened to them talking to Honington, Gary’s harvard had just developed a problem and he was losing power. Honington said that he could land he if wanted but he insisted he could make it to Duxford, Norman wanted Gary to land as soon as possible but Gary insisted that he carried on towards Duxford and told Norman to carry on as planned to Biggin hill to get some of the display money as they wouldn’t get any if they both didn’t go. In the end that’s what they did and i could just hear Gary talking to Duxford so he made it safely in the end.

I’m with HP on this one. Without the Gipsy, few of the pilots of the Merlin engined aircraft et al wouldn’t have got airborne. Possibly one of the the most under-rated engines in recent times?

The Gipsy may well be a good engine, but i don’t think it would have stopped people from progressing to fly merlin engined aircraft if it hadn’t been invented. And also isn’t the gipsy not a pre world war two engine. So merlin it is for me.

Robert T Sand for his colour photo’s that he took in world war two when he was in the 8th air force. Many of these are in a book called Air command by Jeff ethell. Also Mike J i was looking through some of your old shots from the late 80’s the other day.