Too quick on the button WB, link deleted and details substituted!

Aha! but the Gannet is cheaper! just a shame it is not quite airworthy yet.

I am sure it would cut quite a dash at the next Forum Fly-in!

(I assume that the Auster is being sold by Julio’s brother 😀 )

If you want entertainment, download Airwolf from Flightsim.com and then load it into MS Combat Flight Simulator….your success rate on missions is greatly enhanced!!!!
The 190s get very confused when you hover to strafe the General’s car 😀

The main disadvantage of DF over props in models is the accelearation, you have to be very careful about your energy management during manoeuvres, to ensure that you carry your speed through.

The commentator at Elvington last year made a similar comment about the (full size) Supermarine Swift that was displaying, so I assume that the early jets had a similar issue compared to the props they were used to

Got it! It was Riptide – by the bloke behind the A Team

http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/riptide.html

TT

Now of course you raise the A team, which featured Murdoch being able to leap into any DC3/Beech 18/Hughes 500 lying around and save the day (with a recumbent BA Baracus in the back…) after a very short flight….

I assume the Pilot experienced a bit of assymetric power…… 😀

Love the shot of Wessexes departing, typical tail in the air stance.
Funnily enough I was stationed at Shawbury when Ternhill got bombed by the IRA, we spent the first day looking for the protagonists in a red or white van (scared a postie landing in the road behind him!) and then spent the next week keeping the press Jetrangers away from the bomb-site

I have a collection of Channel Airways 111 Photos harvested from the Web, I enclose the ones that have the photographer mentioned
1. Channel Airways Open Day in 1967
2. Gatwick 1970
3. Stockholm 1971

Ahhh yes, those sunny days of yore, I remember in the ’70s sitting in the spectator area at Southend with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps, whilst Mum & Dad went to the bar with Grandad, watching the BAF Carvairs, Heralds and Viscounts….
BAF always did a nice line in T shirts for Kids that they sold at Southend