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May 9, 2014 at 2:14 pm in reply to: Vikings, Varsities and Valettas #923466

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My Dad sadly passed away last year (Gooney Bird on here) and my Mum recently passed me his photo collection, I have been slowly going through them and scanning them.
This looked a good thread to post his Viking Photos, mainly Southend in the ’60s

I also have the maintenance logbooks for most of the Channel Vikings, including G-AGRU. We were going to do a family trip to Brooklands last year to re-unite them with the aircraft, but dad got too ill, so we will contact them and do it this year

Taken on Mum & Dad’s Honeymoon!

Some Sad ones 🙁

Happy Ones to Finish:

May 8, 2014 at 11:43 pm in reply to: Chirk Rapides #923629

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Thanks Propstrike, it would be so nice to see these flying again, I flew on one of the Historic Flight’s ones at the 2003 Coventry airshow and they are such a lovely aircraft (and the first type my Dad flew in)
Incidentally we have the log Books for ex-Channel Viking G-AGRU that is now residing at Brooklands, we were going to do a family trip there to re-unite them with the aircraft last year but Dad got too ill, so we will do it this summer.
We have the logbooks for 17-18 other Vikings and two Bristol Freighters (all scrapped unfortunately), they make facsinating reading, but we can’t keep them all so will put them on ebay – I had hoped we would find more preserved

May 7, 2014 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Chirk Rapides #924320

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Apologies for resurrecting a Zombie thread, but does anyone have any further info on these Rapides please?

I will tell you why, following my Dad’s passing last year (Gooney Bird on this forum) My Mum has passed me his collection of Aircraft log books. These are mainly the ex-Channel Airways Vikings (including G-APOP and G-APOO mentioned above), their 2 Bristol Freighters and their Rapide (well Dominie actually) G-AEMH.

Parts from ‘MH were used in the part-restoration of G-AIUL which I believe is still at Chirk…

April 3, 2014 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Auster Autocrat G- AIZY #933110

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My Dad used to fly G-AIZY at Ipswich in the ’60s, my Mum has recently passed me his photo collection so will dig some out, scan and post them!
I also Produced an Auster T shirt featuring G-AIZY just before he died last year, it is available from the Aero-ist website:

February 24, 2014 at 8:58 am in reply to: A surprise at Biggin Hill #439216

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Nice bit of Wessex Porn!!
So happy to see one Flying in the UK again, there is a movement to get one flying, but looks like we have been beaten to it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/463920787030860/

September 19, 2013 at 8:14 am in reply to: My Grandfather's Logbook #946583

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Thanks
It has survived completely intact apart from the Windsock which broke fairly early on (should be on post bottom right) I was fairly fastidious with my toys, so still have all the vehicles that Grandad included, The tanker, fire engine and Landrover with the top painted yellow plus the ambulance and coach, I added the snowplough later.
The aircraft are the original matchbox ones with the wire undercarriage, most of which have survived intact.

Moggy, he brought me a toy PA22 Tripacer/Colt back from holiday once, I still have it but it appears to be missing its wheels!

September 17, 2013 at 11:19 am in reply to: My Grandfather's Logbook #948873

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Thanks all for your kind comments

Wessex boy

I knew your grandfather when he was at Ipswich, and I am sure I can remember him telling me that he had previously worked for Cambrian Airways at Rhoose before arriving at Ipswich. – Lovely man.

Goldilocks

Thanks Goldilocks, great to hear from someone that knew him, yes I believe there were a job or two between Airwork and Channel (or EAFS as it was then)

One of his views was that he had to know about whatever he was asking his guys to do, hence keeping himself current on the fleet right up to the end.

I have tried to follow this in my career and pride myself in being able to step down from the Ivory tower and do the job at the coalface. I have worked shift in an IT operations Centre I was managing (and found exactly where the lead was being swung!!) and only 2 weeks ago stepped in and did a customer call when one of the sales people wive’s went sick (it was either I do it or I fly someone in from Belgium)

I was 8 when he died, which was a shame, but he made me a lovely model airport from scratch for my 5th birthday that my son has now:

November 23, 2011 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Married Quarters – 1940s to 1980s #1085104

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At Finningley in the 1980s there was not enough room in the Sergeant’s Mess for all of the newly qualified Aircrew Sergeants, so we were put into a section of MQs on base called ‘Gatehouse’

It served as a bit of an epicentre for fun and um interesting behaviour…see this thread on pprune for a flavour:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/243560-gatehouse.html

May 10, 2011 at 7:29 pm in reply to: Honk Kong – end of an era #1049454

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Hmmm Wessex Porn!

Some lovely pics there, a few from me (Shawbury not Honkers):

At Chivenor:

September 27, 2009 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Plane stuff on facebook? #427467

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Follow my company’s news on our Facebook Group, comment on the new products previews and help us decide what to do next, do a search for ‘Aero-ist’ and join the group!

July 28, 2009 at 8:43 pm in reply to: So Long RAF Swinderby…. #1165865

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I was there April-May ’88, felt like 6 weeks of Cadet Camp to me!
We did our drill practice in the hangar also, although when our NCOs found out taht 2 of us were ex Cadet Flt Sgts, they got us to train the rest of the flight whilst they popped back to the Mess!

We had the last passing out Parade with a Lightning Flypast, my Dad spent the whole of the parade with is back to us watching the Lightnings hold!

I recall Hangar 6 being the one used for any clandestine meetings with the WAAF?

May 28, 2009 at 11:08 pm in reply to: Looking for woman pilots for documentary #1233243

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We do pop over occasionally Janie;)

May 28, 2009 at 11:00 pm in reply to: Channel Airways fleet [2009 Thread] #1233248

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Thanks for posting the list, makes interesting reading as my son was asking me about it when we were at Duxford on Saturday.
My Grandfather was Technical Director of Channel and this could be a Photo of my Dad (on the bike) watching one of the Dragon Rapides:

May 27, 2009 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Westland Wessex etc. #1160509

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Weren’t Doncaster Museum putting various Wessex HC2 parts on eBay a while back? Might be worth contacting them to see if they have any more stashed

May 27, 2009 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Stan Ward – RIP #429619

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I passed on this Sad news when I heard it last week to my Father, he replied:

Very sad news about Stan. I first met him in 1955 when we moved to Ipswich and then in 1964 onwards when I started my PPL training. He sent me off solo. However whe wasn’t the CFI when I did my X country, exams, flying test etc as he had moved to another job and Wing Commander Pickford took over. Stan returned soon after and took over being CFI again until Channel Airways folded in 1971! He was the leader of the “Silver Sparrows”, the Auster formation team!
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