Yet another good day at Bruntingthorpe, went a lot better than I expected, everything worked and the Iskra joined in as well. Hunter, as always, was my favourite, but the two Lightnings were very impressive as well. Here’s some pics from the day, enjoy!

Buccaneer XX894 (one of three at Bruntingthorpe)

Canberra – did two high speed runs, don’t think i’ve ever seen her do more than taxi around before today

Nice little Jet Pig – seem to remember there were three others at Bruntingthorpe but only saw one

Polish Iskra (for a tiny thing it sure does make a big noise!)

Mmmm nice, good to see her canopy fixed again

Lightning F6

The two Lightnings at the end of the day – well done to everyone involved, hopefully enough money was raised to keep them going for a few more years

Just been looking through a book on Auster’s I have (titled ‘Auster’ strangely enough :p) and there’s a photo of G-AHLK – in the photo she has a civilian converted rear canopy in the style of an Auster I, in the photo I saw she had an Auster III canopy so good to see her being returned to original status.

Have you got the Sword model kit of an Auster III, Rob?

Yep, finally got around to starting building it last night, nice little model, Kiwi Resins makes a 1/72 resin one which i’m tempted to buy as well.

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Originally Posted by STORMBIRD262
well it’s still an Auster!

Mmm – that looks remarkably like an Autocar to me – either a J/5B or G?

Had a look on the CASA website (cheers JDK – until yesterday I thought CASA only made merlin engined Heinkels!) and turns out it’s a J5P, to me the Autocar has always looked a bit odd because of the high back.

Fingers crossed i’ll be down in Devon sometime in August to see G-AREI, although it’s a shame the Auster doesn’t really get the recognition it deserves (I heard of someone landing an Auster at an airshow, and when they parked it, were asked to move somewhere else so more ‘interesting’ aircraft could take it’s place), it’s a good job there’s still plenty flying, including some of the wartime ones