The nearest that I have seen in the UK is the shares offered in Duxford’s Catalina, although at £17,500 a piece it is a little rich for most.

The MATs Connie team sold annual club membership for about £50, and for that you got a certificate, badge, etc and quarterly newsletter, but there was obviously a cost involved with running that.

If a group was launched on the above kind of footing, and it was a type that I was interested in, then I would be interested in participating.

I agree that a small transport would be most appropriate to benefit the shareholders, as well as the ideas above, a Vickers Viking/Varsity, Dove, Pembroke, York, Bristol Freighter? (Members could borrow it for moving house/tip runs, etc 🙂 )

There is a Deltic cab in a garden between Royston and Barkway, Herts!

The usual, lose another few pounds (difficult to lose the xmas half stone when you have to go to Vegas for a week in early Jan on the company Ra-ra….)

The main one is to get my PPL Current after a break of 16 years, I will go and see the CFI when I get back from Vegas…

I also want to get my 6′ span DC3 model finished this year….probably the least achievable with 2 kids in tow….

Melvyn, why doesn’t my banjo playing sound like the kid in ‘Deliverence’, is it because I’m obviously not a gentleman.

One of the Instructors on 2 FTS at Shawbury was a Banjo Player (Amos, for those who were there…), after one particular ‘Bad Weather Barrel’ and the Sgts Mess bar having shut early (04:30), he then tried to teach me said instrument in the corridor…..I can’t remember the word ‘Gentleman’ amongst the terms used by the other residents…. :diablo:

Answering on Janie’s behalf – Little Gransden

Moggy

I would suggest that the Children in Need Airshow at LG in August would be a suitable fly-in venue for the future.
I missed last year’s due to a diary conflict, but previous year’s have been fantastic, and there is always a goodly number of GA visitors (including a lovely Beech 18 a few years back!)

Look on the websites for RCM&E and RC Model World, they have loads of plans

Rotarwing, who’s it going?

The first time I flew a chopper was transiting back from an exercise at 100′ in a Wessex. flying along at 90 kts it felt like a slightly heavy Cessna, very relaxed and easy.
I then had to rise up to 1500′ to transit through the Shawbury gate, again gently up on the collective, dead easy.

As the landing square hove into view, my instructor said: “just come into the 10′ hover over that white sqaure and turn into wind”

so I gently dropped down from 1500′ and 90 kts, and stopped perfectly over the square at 10’….then all hell broke loose! Apparently it looked like I has having some kind of seizure/fit, the crewman reported it was a bit uncomfortable in the back…..

I now fly a little RC heli, which is fun, and at least you won’t have to master nose-in hovering! (Cyclic controls all reversed!)

I am ‘Working at home’
I need to get my Bookings and Revenue Forecast for Q1 to my Boss by Close of play….luckily I did most of it last week, but he thinks I am very busy doing it today……