A Walrus pilot told me many years ago that for an emergency landing at night or in fog he had to maintain a nose high attitude and minimum power to descend at 45 kts until contact with the water (or ground?) was made. Sounds rather hairy to me. Normal water operations guaranteed the crew would get wet!

There are 3 editions of the Chipmunk T Mk 10. The first 2 are stapled slim pamphlets with blue card covers, the 3rd rather larger and thicker in a dark blue plastic cover and each page is perforated.
None of these are rare and should be readily available in decent condition for around £15 to £25.

Another giveaway is where the cockpit views are folded but you can see where the original folds were meant to be by the darker lines. I have been collecting Pilot’s Notes and Flight Manuals for half a century – and I have been caught out as some reprints did NOT show the Crown copyright message but yet were obviously of some age. If you see ‘reproduced by permission of US Government’ you can be assured it is NOT the original, just a copy. The first Pilot’s Notes to be produced separately from the Volume One for the type had orange paper covers and were held together with India tags.

I’m sure you lot have seen the Welkin special in the latest Aeroplane. I’ve got Penrose’s description of handling characterisitcs – what do you want to know? Just generally?

I would like to learn the stalling speeds and the limiting VNE please.:)

Was there ever a second volume in the series?

The VHF radio is the STR 38 which had 400 channels between 116 and 135.95 MHz. There should be another radio to the left (rear) of the STR. From memory it could have been an ARC 44 (VHF) or a PTR 170 (UHF). The B-47/48 could also be fitted. This was for short range communication with ground forces and was a pain as the antenna had to be raised for landing.

Sorry, it will have to be open house as I can’t manage to post a picture. 🙁

He comes across as a really nice person. 🙂