Ah cheers – unfortunately my garage is now full of stuff (old bed frames etc, plus i’ve set up my own little gym in there) so she’ll be staying at Bruntingthorpe, plus she won’t fit between the little path between the side of my house and the fence (for some reason our garage is at the bottom of the garden backing onto a narrow alleyway).

Might put something up to get her undercover and repaint the frames (If I cut up an old tent she should fit in there easily), might bike down to Brunty sometime this week and see what I can do. Anyone got a spare set of Auster wings? 😀

That’s mine? To be honest have no idea what reg mine is, apparently it’s reg was given to another Auster so mine may get the reg off one of Adrians other Austers. Apparently that way it only costs £40 to register it with the CAA, whereas to get a reg out of sequence is £200, which is a shame as I really wanted the currently available reg G-ROBL!

Edit – here’s some pictures of her/him/it (needs naming, i’ve got a couple of ideas though 😉 )

Did a quick google and apparently G-AJPZ was heavily damaged when she was overturned by a gale at Thruxton, will try and find out more

Cheers, Rob

I only ever bought one comic, back in London as a kid (sometime in the late 1990’s im guessing), got it because I liked the look of the plane on the front cover – it was called ‘Firing Zone’ by Commando Comics about an observer for the artillery, and ended up in an Auster III a fair few times (funny really, considering what became my favourite aircraft :rolleyes: ). There’s a picture of the front cover on the far left, eighth row down here

http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/com1997.htm

No idea what I did with the comic, haven’t seen it for years – cheers for reminding me about it, i’ll probably be up all night digging out the cupboards looking for it!

Cheers for the pics, i’d love to take you up on the ride in the Aeronca if it’s no problem, looks like i’ll be spending most of the weekend in the air!

Well, I had had a quick trip on her with Phil at the wheel to see what she can do – decided standing up was the best way to travel after the fuel gauge made it rather uncomfy. Cheers for asking Martin, hopefully should be a great weekend (just hope the weather holds out), do you know how many other Austers are supposed to come down, and if the Mk III is back from Bodmin yet? Says ‘change of details in process’ on the CAA site, as well as a new photo of her. Will try and get a logbook sometime soon, anyone know where I can get one from?

Cheers, Rob

Where abouts were you? Turns out I walked past TT about twice (didn’t meet him till last saturday) but met Andy Bonsell (320psi), think I recognised a couple of other people as well but wasn’t sure

It’s a Cessna T50, known as the Bobcat to the Canadians and the Crane to Cessna. Also nicknamed the Bamboo Bomber because it’s made entirely out of wood (not bamboo though, and it’s not a bomber!) as well as several other nicknames. It was used as a light transport aircraft, and also by the Canadians as a training aircraft for conversion from single to twin engine aircraft by the CATP (Canadian Air Training Programme)