Heres a Wessex XR528 at work in Hong Kong .In 1980 in think.

Nice 😎

So what was the point of knocking the whole thing down and then re-building it?

Hi Wessex Boy,

I can add seven trips to the list in 1987. Nice to see someone cared enough to save her from the scrapheap! 😀

Tom, Slipstream,
Good to hear from other chaps that have been through 2 FTS at Shawbury, I would imagine that Seafuryfan racked up a few hours in her as well.
All those hours carrying under-slung concrete blocks from one confined area to the next! (Wem, Rednal, Sleap, Chetwynd, Ternhill…..!)

Thanks Mate!
XT672 appears in my Log Book 11 times, and in fact was the last one I Operated, sadly.
It did not have ‘Aires’ scrawled on the side in my recollection though!

Thanks for posting, I had good fun at Shawbury, it was a nice camp, Shrewsbury was a reasonable place to go on a night out, and the 8 mile walk back to camp wasn’t too bad when you ran out of cash for the cab home!
The only real issue was the WAAF block was over the road, so you got counted out of the main gate, and then they sent a search party out if you didn’t come back within 30 mins :diablo:

I spent 2 weeks in the guardroom after being chopped (first female SWO at Shawbury!) not only did I have to measure how much White and Yellow paint was needed to repaint all groundside road markings, I had to build the same pill box 3 times as the SWO and OC GD could not agree on it’s location ( I have the cartoon in the Shawbury Mag somewhere!)

As we had a load of cash in Paypal (selling kiddy stuff/clothes), I have just bought my Wife a Breadmaker, that seems to have gone down well and diverted attention from my new camera, Kamov KA52 Fuselage for my RC Heli, Mamod Parts and Guitar tuner…eBay is a wonderful thing! 😀

Spifire Pilot, Buy a foam park flyer to learn on, the main thing is to get your thumbs wired up to your brain, once you don’t have to think which way to move your thumbs, you will find it much easier to move onto the Spit.
I also use a PC simulator as well, with the Ikarus Game Commander (4 channel TX that plugs into your Joystick port) that helps.

Kicks, if you think fixed wing is hard, I have been flying my Heli off and on for 2 years, and still can’t hover nose in for that long!

Pillar Drill

Aha, I know the answer to this as it is me that supplies all Corgi’s research material. They had photos of both machines to work from,that were in an identical scheme, but had to have both to show positions of all the markings. The model is completely authentic for one machine and the text is accurate for the other. Somewhere along the line, they put one serial on the model and the other in the text and as I never saw the prototype model before it went into production, I was unaware the serials of the model and text didn’t match up!

AR, Any chance you can persuade them to do any Channel Airways schemed models, please? 😀