and the Red Bull team F-5’s

Fort Worth last year: the Airman’s Memorial

I’ve had a few R1200RT’s plus rented one in UK last year for a ride around the country. Our distances tend to be a little longer, these were earlier this year on a 9,000km trip to Western Australia and back 😉

Over the Great Australian Bight, just off the Nullarbor Plain

The road has a number of marked emergency landing strips for the RFDS:

The Chippie Koffman starter was a ring pull affair in the cockpit, on the top right side of the panel. If you pulled hard enough the wire would come out still attached to the ring 😉

The Alvis Leonides in the Whirlwind also used a cartridge start, but I vaguely recall that we only had 3 cartridges. Unless that was the number in the Avpin system on the Wessex HAS1? Now that was a starter system: monofuel powerful enough to send the complete starter out of the helicopter, through the closed doors of the hangar, and only stop when it hit the other set of doors at t’other end of the hangar 😮

Excellent: thanks 😀

also a Hiller XS172….I’ll look for some more

Another one from my logbook 😮 Any chance of a full size image for my collection, pretty please?

I never kept a record of pax flights, but those that are now “preserved”, which I have flown (not flown in) :

Ercoupe
Chipmunk
Hiller 12E
Whirlwind 7
Wessex 1/3/60
Meteor
Spitfire T9
Alouette II
Sea Prince
Gannet (back seat crew off Ark)

It’s always a bit of a shock to see an actual airframe that I’ve flown sitting on display in a museum :rolleyes:

This one was great 😀

Now for a trip to Cape Town and a Lightning flight: my SP wouldn’t let me take a trip in Singapore when it was offered to me 37 years ago, the miserable old git 🙁

I might have made a cockup, But that WESSEX instrument Panel, well i just put in a offer , and he accepted, But ive just realised, he has listed it as a WESSEX HAS5 panel, Ive just done a search on the web for the HAS5 and all I keep getting is SEAKING, which is worrying as I have no interest in them as they are too modern, ,he advertised it as a WESSEX panel, Which is it??, a seaking or a Wessex, if it is Seaking, I wont be buying , as this is not the item i have thought it was listed as ??

he says there is a label with these figures on it stamped in the back ?
WB.58.80259 B5801349134,

and the link is as follows

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270276858278&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123

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That’s either a Wessex HC2, HU5 or Mk60 panel: the double row of engine instruments to the left of the CWP are peculiar to the twin engine Wessex (Queen of the Skies :p ).