Vintage Chippie photos
I’ve got a few more shots from 40 years ago if anyone is interested?
G-AKDN at Old Warden on 25 June 1972
Hi Janie
Here’s a couple of N13Y taken at Booker on 4 July 1970 – I’m not sure they would allow the inverted display these days but it was fun holding the supporting poles!
Art Scholl taxying out for the start of his display
Inverted pass to cut the flags with the fin – as displayed in the EAA Museum!
I’m not trying to stir anything, and I am certainly not an engineer, but I thought people might like to see the response I recieved from the FoF museum Re: RS712 just this morning:
Thank you for your message. Mr. Weeks’ Mosquito is in Oshkosh Wisconsin and will likely remain there for quite a while as there are no plans at this time to restore it in the foreseeable future although it is hoped that it is a candidate for restoration. Apparently, there has been quite a bit of delamination that had taken place to make it not airworthy and it will take much time and money to bring it back to flying condition.
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Looked OK last week – but I’m not an engineer !
Thanks for that – I wasn’t aware that Art Scholl had owned more than one Chipmunk.
When I was 13 or so I used to go to our local radio control flying field and the odd copy of Aeromodeller used to come my way. Art Scholl’s Chipmunk and Harold Krier’s Great Lakes were often featured but unfortunately I never got to see displays by these legends of the aerobatic scene.
Here’s the Super Chipmunk at Oshkosh on 10 September 2012:
c/n 116-154
CF-CXL registered 12/9/50 Canadian Department of National Defence, on loan to Winnipeg Flying Club; SOC 13/10/61;
N1114V registered /?? with c/n 154 W.B.Richards; A.E.Scholl; Re-engined with a Ranger 6-440C-5; after Scholl death the aircraft was presented by his widow to the E.A.A.Aviation Foundation Inc; Preserved EAA Museum Oshkosh 6/87; current on USCAR 6/12;
Blue Noser, KW’s Mosquito and that in the picture are one and the same. RS712 I think she is off the top of my head.
Absolutely correct – here she is in close-up:
and another:
and just to get back on thread – they have the fourth prototype Mustang in the same hangar as the Mosquito and the P-51D:
more pictures of beech 18’s required please
This was one of two which were at the Brodhead Fly-In of the AAA on Saturday 8th September.
I’ve posted my other photos in the Air Shows section of “Photographic”
Here’s one I saw last Monday 🙂
EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, WI.
The F-51D in the EAA collection was manufactured in 1944. Its original designation was P-51D-30NA, its serial number is 44-75007 and its registration number is N3451D. It was acquired by the EAA in 1977 and flew until it was retired to the museum’s Eagle Hangar in 2003.
That’s not the one I was thinking of, but would say it’s a good bet it’s the one the poster was referring to!
The other one I saw had a slightly different spinner shape. It was parked at Booker, and in the photo there was a Mosquito behind it.
This one was at Booker on 26 September 1971:
and this one was John Berkeley’s replica in open store at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, on 24 June 1972:
Two more Blackbushe Sea Furies
The first two were taken at Blackbushe – the camo one at the same time as the Spitfire and the Meteor – FAA example was on another visit.
I think the camo one was later sold on / operated by Mike Stowe as shown in the following two shots:
Anyone out there to confirm the identities? (It was a long time ago!)
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