The first landing on a ship was by Eugene Ely in 1911, and the first landing on a moving ship was Sqn Cdr Dunning in 1917…. BUT in the build up to Dunning’s efforts, I would imagine there would have been a period of practice relating to towed platforms – perhaps a line for research into Mr. Berryman.

Edwin Dunning has a memorial on the wall of St.Lawrence Church Bradfield and I think he is buried in the Churchyard.He lived at Jaques Hall Bradfield.
Colin.

There will be a Memorial Service to Edwin Dunning at 1500hrs on 7th.August at St.Lawrence Church Bradfield on the 100th anniversary of his death.He is buried in the family grave in St.Lawrence Churchyard.

Not sure if its a Monaco as I lost the programme unfortunately.
I have always wanted to see a real D type in the flesh and several were said to be real at Goodwood. Seen replicas a few times, seeing a C type at speed too was great.

Someone near here owns a D type in British Racing Green,I’ve seen it through the village 3 times in the last couple of months always on a weekend.
Colin.

Who has its landing photo?

It looks like there is a small horizontal davit protruding from the nose and I’m guessing it would be possible to winch the Radome? to a horizontal position to enable landing.I seem to recollect that the FAA had some Sea Kings? that had a side mounted radome which had to be swivelled horizontal for landing.
Colin.

Did the first FAA Sea King with a radome come about as an emergency measure to provide AEW cover for the Falklands conflict because there were no Gannets remaining servicable ??

Does anyone have news abouth the two old props? I have read that perhaps they have (had?) to be scrapped due to needed parking space for the coming Olympic games…..

I could see the fin of one them from M11 on Friday 6/7,its usually possible to see both but the trees/shrubs are obscuring the view this year.
Colin

MTB 102

MTB 102 was in the flotilla and is based in Lowestoft.I believe she has been re-engined with diesels,I can remember her visiting the Dock Basin at Felixstowe before I retired about 7/8 years ago.The Dock Basin was an MTB and ASR base in the war and has now been been filled in to make way for a new container berth for the largest container ships in the world.

Colin.

What a tragic story. I can imagine they want to give them a decent burial. Wonder what they´ll do with the wreck? Kind of a creepy thing to have around IMHO.

The latest Aeroplane magazine (June) has three pages on this story.
Colin.

I seem to remember seeing Neil Williams flying a Zlin, possibly at Cranfield ’72/73, and he flew most of the display inverted (that’s why I thought it was NW in the clip)
Didn’t he have a near disaster in a Zlin when a lower wing bolt failed and the wing flapped up, forcing him to approach with the plane inverted and flick it over at the last second before crash landing, or am I thinking of someone else?

Regards
Bill

I think that happened at Hullavington.
Colin