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March 2, 2006 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Watch Towers #1363781

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Wickenby is in use as the Flying Club clubhouse
Goodwood was there a few years ago and housed an excellent “Greasy Spoon” style of cafe which every motorcyclist in SE England seemed to call in at on Sundays!

March 1, 2006 at 9:37 pm in reply to: Pilkington glass #1364869

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There was a company in Tring which made perspex aircraft glazing. My father had served in the RAF during WW2 with a chap who – IIRC – became their Sales Director and I can vividly recall a weekend trip to see him and his family in the late 1950s.

He had a flat at the company HQ – a large country house – where there was a small museum with many models of aircraft that the company had been involved with. They also had the perspex nose of a Mosquito in the grounds – it was used as a giant goldfish bowl!

Can anybody tell me where this may have been – I can’t remember and Dad has passed on.

February 24, 2006 at 4:57 pm in reply to: RAF Acklington Gate Guards #1372205

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TB252 was the gate guardian at Acklington but its a high-back. These photos remind me of Biggin Hill.

Compare with this photo of SL674 in August 1960. 🙂

February 23, 2006 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Proctor 5 G-AGTC #1373012

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G-AGTC, Percival Proctor 5, c/n Ae3, first registered 1/1/1946 to Percival Aircraft Ltd, Luton. Damaged beyond repair, Malaga, Spain, 2/5/1969.

February 23, 2006 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club #1373040

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Photos & info from the 1930s

I have quite a stack of photos, press cuttings and the like which were given to me by the late David Bradley-Watson. He was a member at Mousehold Heath in the 1930s, moving on to Hatfield and eventually Brooklands as he took his “A” (Private) and “B” (Commercial) licences.

We published his memories in “Vintage Aircraft” magazine many years ago.

February 22, 2006 at 4:59 pm in reply to: RAF Hednesford – Wellington and Spitfires #1374578

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Just to help visualise their movements

This map may help :confused:

February 22, 2006 at 1:57 pm in reply to: RAF Hednesford – Wellington and Spitfires #1374796

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And this must be …

AR614?

February 21, 2006 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Cheshire airfields #1375995

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There are still wooden prop-blades used as field fence posts in the hills to the north-east of Macclesfield,some of them still black with the yellow tips still visible.They are locally reputed to be from Wellingtons.As far as I remember,RAF Handforth was always just a M.U. and never an airfield.You are correct in stating that RAF Wilmslow was a WRAF camp and had a Spitfire as a gate-guard in the 1950s.

The Spitfire was EP120. 🙂

February 20, 2006 at 7:13 am in reply to: Spitfire query (sorry) #1377734

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I am not sure, I read this

and since the serial is also found here:
http://koti.welho.com/msolanak/spitregist.html
I decided to try and find more information

Hmm … paraphrased from the 1986 edition of “Spitfire Survivors”. I have grave doubts about this a/c having any Greek connections.

February 19, 2006 at 3:31 pm in reply to: 2 german WWII fighter being rebuilt in the UK? #1378477

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Will the authorities let the 262 fly over here? Seem to remember something about them stopping any of the ME262’s built in the US from being based here

This 262 is a genuine wartime Me262, not a modern replica.

February 18, 2006 at 3:26 pm in reply to: RAFM Sturmovik – Spitfire Swap? #1379034

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AFAIK the spit in question for the IL 2 swap is the F.21 in store with the RAFM, I last saw the wings at Cosford some time ago, don’t know where it lives now, Stafford? Would be nice to see one of the late late Spits and compare the wing shapes, the IL 2 is coming along nicely too, fuselage is looking much more complete now, even though it’s being finished as static the workmanship is even better than the original Russian work, no wonder we’ll never see one fly on the G reg 😉

Tom

LA226?

February 18, 2006 at 1:53 pm in reply to: A.S.M. Wedderburn – Redwing Aircraft #1379065

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The Robinson company was based for a time at Blue Barns aerodrome, adjacent to the A12 just outside of Colchester, Essex. I remember the hangar still being there in the mid 1970s (saw it on my way to Bentwaters to see the “Blue Angels” with their F-4s.)

Any of our Essex boys or girls know if its still there?

Although my first flight was as a toddler in a Dragon Rapide (apparently) my first flight that I can actually remember was with John Pothecary in G-ABNX at Lydd – lovely!

February 11, 2006 at 2:01 pm in reply to: Airfield Beacons #1389723

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The famous wooden hut (ex Stag Lane then Hatfield and now dismantled) and its contents are preserved and stored by BAE Systems.

Well that’s good to know – any idea what the plans for it are? It would look good if it were reassembled indoors somewhere and restored in its original format (half reception office & half drawing office).

February 10, 2006 at 8:57 am in reply to: Airfield Beacons #1391346

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Hatfield Beacon

Morning Janie … now the penny drops!

Thought you might like to walk around your new “manor” and see if any of this map makes sense! The clubhouse area was all bulldozed around 1991 when I was working at Hatfield … made me weep … what has happened to the original wooden hut that used to be there and in which many priceless DH artifacts were displayed – including the Britannia Trophy which was awarded to Sir Geoffrey after his altitude-record Moth flight in 1926?

February 10, 2006 at 6:13 am in reply to: Airfield Beacons #1391448

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Chance Brothers of Birmingham are where the name comes from, as Janie’s discovered.

They are glass and optic makers, and one of Britain’s secret success stories; making lighthouse optics from at least the 19th century; most British and Australian lighthouses are/were fitted with Chance gear, and they were (according to an Aussie lighthouse keeper I was talking to) are still going.

Indeed they are … my brother visited the original factory building a few years ago when researching our Family Tree. My late father always used to point out the Chance light in the Birmingham Science Museum as our family had strong connections with the Chance family.

They also make slides & cover slips for microscopy.
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