Yes, it’s very pretty inside, nice gloss paint throughout, nice restoration but as you say not very stock. If you’re not careful you can knock all the little knobs off the transponder when you get in and out, I’ve seen it happen :rolleyes:
Worth a look at the Courtesy aircraft site though, those look to be recent pics of the Wildcat taken at Rockford, may be wrong though.
Thanks for that David, the reason for me asking was because whilst car hunting in Diss today I spotted the tail section and wondered where it had come from. I also noticed a few lumps of Hunter and a Lightning canopy. Looks like I need to investigate this place further.
The Wildcat has flown on a few occasions, back from it’s European storage hanger to Earls Colne 4-7-96, Earls Colne to Bournemouth, Bournemouth to North Weald 9-97. Since then it has been run regularly. However as I understand it, it is now in America and for sale.
Thanks very much 😀
Originally posted by Flood
I saw the Bognor bar-bird last year some time –
Met one of those once, however I suspect that may be a story for a different forum 😀
The aircraft was sold to Jack Erickson in America in the early 90’s, Lindsay I believe is still on his farm in Sutton Bridge and has retired from display flying.
You can post as many as you like as far as I’m concerned Chris 😀 Great pics there, very interesting.
I went to Great Warbirds for the first time in 1986, which was very wet, from then on I attended the rest of the West Malling shows and the last one at Wroughton (where I spent the weekend crewing the Yak 11, Spitfire and a pair of Harvards.
Great Stuff
Originally posted by bentwingbomber
Mark VThose containers full of goodies will probably be corroded to the spot and unable to move the amount of time they have been there;)
Probably not the only things that are likely to be corroded to the spot at North Weald. 😉
What about the Lazer Z200, lovely little sporting aerobatic aircraft, only a single seater however.
According to the NTSB the Buchon crashed on take off due to the Carb floats having cracked and swollen to such an extent that they no longer allowed full fuel flow leading to a loss of power on take off.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001213X32697&key=1
I have received a 1/48th Mustang in RNZAF markings, that will keep me off the streets for a bit.
RobAnt, let us know how you get on with the camera, I’ve toyed with the idea of getting one.
Nice to see the pics Cargomaster, if you find any others I for one would love to see them.
Lindsay Walton’s Morane Saulnier MS733 G-SHOW. If it was 84 that was the last year that the ‘Cambodian Gunship’ as she was known was operated by Lindsay.
Originally posted by SteveYoung
Not quite sure what’s happened here…
That would be the result of the argument between the Shackleton and Graham Warner’s (ARCO / BAM) Broussard (G-BJGW) during the gales in October 87. The Broussard was blown over the fence into the Shackleton. Interesting that the Broussard is back flying and was at one point in Africa whereas the Shackleton hasn’t moved an inch.
The Lansen is currently registered to James Wilkie who thoughout the 80’s and early 90’s had a number of vintage helicopters (Skeeter, Scout etc). Was this machine something to do with Aces High once upon a time?