Oxford V3388 photo

This from the Adrian Balch archive on flickr (click for flickr page)

G-AWBM Sywell 1971

‘Barnstormer’, homebuilt with a one-off canopy?

There’s a lovely set of Adrian Balch’s classic oldies colour shots on Flickr with this one Rollason Turbulent as ‘tail-end-Charlie’ ….click on this ‘hot-linked’ image to access the Flickr set where there is a slideshow function

Veeone….here’s a few links to White Waltham history
David Whitworth’s flickr pics from the 50s
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=37210624@N03&q=white%20waltham#page=0

Movietone Newsreel Air Displays October 1945
http://www.movietone.com/N_search.cfm?ActionFlag=back2ResultsView&start=10&pageStart=1&totalRecords=10&V_DateType=3&V_DECADE=1929&V_FromYear=1928&V_QualifySubject=&V_storyNumber=&V_TermsToOmit=&V_ToYear=1980&V_searchType=1&V_MainSubject=air display&V_Year=1945&V_resultsPerPage=30

British Airways VC-10 White Waltham 1977
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=VC-10+white+waltham&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=

Pan Am Airbus White Waltham 1986….with the old Fairey hangars in the background, I believe
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35439468

AND ….worth checking the new ATA Museum site…..photo gallery on there
http://www.atamuseum.org/gallery.html
http://www.atamuseum.org/images/ferry-pools/large/white-waltham-pageant.jpg
http://www.atamuseum.org/images/ferry-pools/large/ww-advanced-flying.jpg
http://www.atamuseum.org/images/ferry-pools/large/Tea-on-the-terrace-at-White-Waltham.jpg

Wow! The Gannet runway was still there when I learned to fly there. Did you know that there was a strip of concrete used by the Gannets to test carrier landings? When I was a small child a group of us kids cycled six miles to WW for the adventure. There was an all-red RAF Chipmunk doing circuits right over our heads (we were on the far end of runway 21). I heard it was prince charles training to fly. I do recall in the mid/late 1960s (again as a child) seeing the Fairey Surveys’ Daks and Doves from the RAF houses opposite. As a civilian pilot I used to do circuits alongside the RAF T21 gliders. But I am sure that Fairey Avn was gone by then – no exotic aeroplanes on the north side, just the air cadets in their flying brick gliders and us chickens in PA28s on the east side where all the light planes were. Your White Waltham Dakota photo really brought back good memories. Thank you.

Not found many Turbulents in my neg files from the 70s but some slightly related shots from Old Warden here….still looking 🙂
G-ATKR 1972

Rollason Flying Club Tiger Moth 1973

Turbi G-APFA 1973

Turbi G-AOTK 1973

Wow! G-AYSL a British airways 707 with Pratt&Whitney JT-4 engines! ex Pan-Am via Dan-Air ?

A few shots of the Tiger Club Turbulent team , Culdrose Air Day 2010. Think I saw at least one of these being built in Rollasons hangar at Croydon when I used to sneak around spotting on a Sunday morning