Citroen RE2?
You can even put an elderly photographer in the back.
Bronco, F-AZKM, Lausanne, 2011
An old Engstrom?
Tails you lose. Lincoln again. Unless I got up front, this was my favourite place to fly as an ATC cadet!
Lincoln
Another vote for Bicester. Happy days with Oxford UAS!
Actually the field is not closed, but the RAF part is going.
I have recently tried to contact the Defence Attaché in Cairo for information (if any), but have so far no reply. However, I am sure that the members of the British Embassy there have a lot to think about considering the present unrest in Egypt.
dko and Andy:
I really cannot remember what was promised and by whom.
The original thread was a source of information that has now disappeared!
Resmoroh: wow! Born in Priory Road where I was bought up! Yes the Master was in their neighbour’s garden and I remember seeing bits of it that my grandfather had picked up in his.
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Here’s another I would like to see back, a far cry from the romance of Biggin Hill and all those glamorous places. In fact whenever I am in that area I go to see what little there is left. That is RAF Peterborough, where I was an ATC cadet (115 Sqd is still there on its original site), and spent much of my youth either crawling through the long grass clutching a .303 rifle (I can’t remember why on earth we would do that)! Or watching the Tiger Moths and Austers, hoping that someone would say, “Would you like a trip?” but no-one did.
Pre-war it was the home of 7 FTS with Harts and Audaxes and during the war it served as a home for basic trainers of all sorts. One of their Masters even crashed next door to my grandparents’ house close to the airfield.
I am confused here. Roborough says the Auster in the museum is RCAF 16652 c/n 2576.
Dr Smith says it is VP628 c/n 2558, CF-MMY, C-FWLK
When I saw it at Rockville in 1993 I noted it as ex 16652 ex CF-KBV (I think it was labelled as such).
The Auster site gives 2576 as VP629, 16652, CF-KBV, and 2558 as 16651 CF-MMY VP628
So is the museum’s “VF583” 16651 or 16652?
I remember flying Chipmunks from Newton. A funny bend halfway down the runway I recall.
Upwood, where as an ATC cadet in the 1950s I got a number of hours in Lincolns, and later Canberras. It was a fantastic sight to see all those black bombers scattered around the airfield, and even more fantastic to fly in them.
Happy memories of F/L John Stephens, our cadet liaison officer and Lincoln pilot on 7 Sqd.
Anyone know what happened to him?
TT for now
It’s Avion Ancien in an avion ancien.