Argonaut, for the evocotive sound booming over the Cheshire countryside on a quiet Sunday morning in the mid 1960s as a British Midland C-4M departs Ringway runway 06 for the Med.
York,for the memory of lying awake in the early hours of the morning as a teenager listening to the Dan-Air York operating the nightly BEA Renfrew-Ringway-LAP freight flight.
C-133 Cargomaster for the memory of the incredible deep reverberating sound as it cruised overhead on Blue 1 over Timperley.(Although this technically may still be heard on the C-133 based at Anchorage,Alaska,on it’s annual flight)

Siskins are common winter visitors to the pine forests of North-West England and have been for many years.Macclesfield Forest and the Derwent Valley(of Dam Busters fame) regulary hold large flocks.It is only because these birds are opportunists and have only fairly recently adapted to bird-feeders in back gardens that people are beginning to notice them more often.Pete,I see you live in Essex,so these birds might well be slowly working their way back to Scandinavia via the shortest sea crossing of the English Channel.The males are really cracking little birds,aren’t they?

Unless anyone knows differently ,#21 , 9J-PAA,has been at Phoebus Apollo’s base at Rand Airport,South Africa for the last few years and not Kinshasa,Congo.

It’s the 1962 edition with a purple and blue cover.

Here’s a very poor grainy shot of the Halesworth Carvair CF-EPV when in storage at Southend late 1973

I’ve found a few more photos from Clayton Vale taken in late 1980.The first is of the ”other” Swift WK214 which was hidden around the back of the old mill.
The second is a shot of the famous pond with Balliol WG229 emerging from the depths.

When was the D.C.6 taken? I was there all day Saturday and Sunday and it was in the Red Bull maintenance hangar.