Nice model!
Got me to thinking that a 1/12 scale RC model might be interesting to see fly, I’ll add it to the list for when I finish my Channel Airways Dak.
Perhaps I can Recreate Southend in the early ’70s…The Channel DC4, a Viking and a Trident are also on my to-build list, at least the DC4 and Carvair would share some common parts

Great Photos Rob, Must either go up there or over to MAM next time I am left Unsupervised with one of my children…

Glad you have got up close and personal with the Mighty Wessex, just a lovely lump of reliable, functional engineering. I only have 120 hours on them (2 in the front, the rest hanging out of the door) but they turned me from Boy to Man… 😀

Thanks, one for Sky+

Bolle also do aviation glasses with thin stems to fit with headsets

I had almost forgotten the “spectators’ enclosure” or “The Waving off Terrace” to give its official title!

Spent many an hour on there in the early ’70s whilst Mum & Dad went for a drink with my Grandad in the airport bar (he worked for Channel) Coke in a real bottle with 2 straws, a bag of crisps and Carvairs what more could a 5 year old want? 😀

So Oakleys or Ray-Bans for looking cheesy and cool in the cockpit? Or neither?

Where’s the cheapest to get them with a sight ‘script?

Revo seem to be edging their way into the cockpit (sponsor Red Arrows)

Oakleys are good unless you do anything remotely sporty, as the special lens coating scratches very easily. I almost bought a pair for sailing in Greece last year, but bought a cheap american copy (X Loop) instead, I was glad I did when I got smacked in the face by the Boom on an un-intended Gybe, Expensive Oakleys would have been in pieces, but my cheap things hung together, and are still going strong!