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  • in reply to: Is it a guy thing? #437386
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    And, if there’s any guys in SoCal that would like to go flying sometime … my plane is out of annual this weekend. :rolleyes: 🙂

    Cheers!

    FLYLADY 😉

    Now you tell me!!! I spent a month in SoCal during March, lovely place to go flying. Whereabouts are you based FlyLady? :rolleyes:

    in reply to: Old Buckenham Airshow (2004 nostalgia-fest) #437387
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    All being well I will be there Saturday and Sunday. Looked at the provisional programme tonight and it looks like it should be a good show. Oh and the advertising banner on the A11 looks soooooooo nice.

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    Cheers Olly,

    Those pics look great. I’ll have to try to catch up with White 36 this year at some point.

    in reply to: Spitfire XI PL965 back home! #1613999
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    Have ’em shot! 😉

    Oh no don’t do that, not until the latrines are prepared, some of us may need them.

    in reply to: Your first even passenger #437399
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    There is a new strip with 2 runways near Norton in the grounds of a large manor house, about midway between Rougham and Great Ashfield. Two small hangers have sprung up in the grounds as well. The airfield was quite visible 3 weeks ago as it had only just been graded from the look of it, it’s now starting to go green, but has now gained a windsock. Worth keeping an eye on though.

    in reply to: Your first even passenger #437401
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    It is nice when she joins me on a flight, she’s always good company, but really, I much prefer an empty sky and an empty aircraft.

    Moggy

    Do you find you end up talking to yourself about the flight when you are alone or is that just me?
    The majority of my flying post qualification has been on my own, mainly because it’s so much easier to drive to the hanger after work, pull the aircraft out and wander around East Anglia for an hour than it is to actually drive home and much more pleasant as well. Also gives me an excuse to see how the new private strip near Bury St Edmunds is doing and whether any aircraft are making use of it as yet.

    in reply to: Your first even passenger #437406
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    So far my passengers have all been other Pilots so I don’t think that counts, however now that G-DEMH is back on line after it’s star annual my first real passenger will be the lovely Mrs Yak11 Fan (ok not actually married but you get my point). She keeps trying to put off the inevitable first flight, so far by being busy every weekend apart from the one where the 172 was in more bits than I thought possible, this weekend I will be busy with the Old Buckenham show, but after that……..
    I’ll let you know how it goes and whether she is still talking to me at the end of the flight.

    in reply to: Is it a guy thing? #437421
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    Gawd – wait ’till Janie reads that!!!!!!!!!!!

    Not my words, but the words of a respected gentleman.

    Came off the back of a conversation regarding someones tailwheel conversion on an Auster 5 at the weekend.

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    Oh well, each to their own 😉

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    Why on earth would Sea World want a Spitfire?

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    Janie beat me up —- errr I mean to it —- err well you know what I mean

    😮 :rolleyes:

    Maaaaarvelous!!!! Not sure about the black spinner, but better than no spinner at all. Lovely to see it out and about now, nearly broke my heart to see it stored up at Earls Colne for a couple of years after the test flying was completed.

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    Well there goes your birthday present!

    If you keep the receipt I could always take it back and change it 😀

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    Damien. MOTF and RobAnt were all spotted. I’m becoming a Spotter spotter!

    Oh dear oh dear oh dear. :rolleyes:

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    Class.

    And much nicer, rarer*, cheaper to buy & run and (frankly) more stylish than a P-51D.

    Cheers

    *But then a Cessna 172 sees rarer than a P-51D 😀

    …..and when my lottery numbers come up I will have a Yak 11 😉 I will then follow the path that Eddie spoke about many times and get myself a P51 and not start messing about with these silly Spitfire things.

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    The G-INFO pic is quite an old one now, taken at Earls Colne shortly after it was completed (notice Thumper the poor unfortunate Harvard in the background). Anyone get any pics from yesterday?

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