Greetings,

Just spoken to my Dad who was a Canberra Nav on 35Sqn and was there when it happened! The story goes that the squadrons were all fuelled/armed and ready to go then whilst taxiing out one pulled up the undercarrage. This spoilt the nights activities somewhat as the guys behind him could not taxi past and they then had to try and remove a fuelled / armed B2. The guy was really lucky not to blow himself and the rest of the Cyprus Canberra force based at Nicosia up with him.

The only bit to add to the story is that the pilot was placed under house arrest and shipped back to the UK where he was offered quite a few jobs by other folk who at the time dissagreed with the Suez campagne.

cheers

Cliff

Thought MK356 was with ARCo at Duxford then again im always behind the times

Cheers Cliff

The Mk XIX BBMF Spitfire was there for the launch of the Haynes ‘Spitfire Owners Handbook’ and was used as a backdrop for a photocall.

Brian

Hope it’s better than the one they did for my Rover 25 🙁

Great pix Brian by the way

Cheers

Cliff

seafury

Hi Ron,

Never seen the seafury this summer 🙁 so would be interested to know when you had the horndean airshow 😉 the nearest we get up here at clanfield is a regular weekend YAK from goodwood or the many lynx test flights.

Hope to see the fury soon when the weather permits

regards

Cliff

If the ones on the afore mentioned site are a little out of your price range, there is always this prestine example on ebay at the minute. :rolleyes:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ex-Air-Force-Wessex-Helicopter_W0QQitemZ280154805371QQihZ018QQcategoryZ2983QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The Hunter looks a better prospect for the same money :rolleyes:

cliff

Thanks Lee for the information… She certainly smoked allot at Legends so not suprised to see that the cylinder needs looking at.

Cheers Cliff

Is this original paint then? It looks like Matt paint to me. What went so wrong with touchup?

Peter,

This is the original paint, basically what went wrong is that the matt paint that I tried was too glossy and so stands out like dogs b@@@ks. The attempt to spray over the repair made it worse so I want to take the instruments out and re-spray the whole pannel.

I have the white wax to fill in the etching so just need to get the paint. I am guessing that the autofactor should do a really mat finnish but just wondered if there was a specific shade to make the panel authentic again.

Cliff