Nice to see a Piper Apache on the ramp at Duxford Ah, recall watching that one and several others staggering round the circuit at Biggin with people doing their twin ratings... EFATOs were seemingly always done off the 03 end into the valley. The G-ARJ* batch were originally used by the College of ...

Ahh... looking forward to seeing the year progress through these pages. Delighted to discover that my great nephew has become a bit of an aeroplane addict and has been given a book with a Bearcat on the cover. Hoping to be able to take him to Duxford (perhaps with his Granny who also likes aeroplane...

Thanks for all the updates folks, hope you enjoyed your Christmases and have a great New Year.

I plan to get to Duxford at some point in 2024, been a few years since I've made a visit!

What a wonderful aeroplane that Tempest is. Was Duxford expecting the arrival of the Tempest at that moment? Surprising to see Pete Kynsey in the cockpit and nary a member of groundcrew in sight!

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Tue 04 Jul 2023, 7:55 pm

No, think it is Paul Bonhome

Ah yeah, think you are right! Thanks.

Mark Levy flying Contrary Mary?

Never heard of the type until wandering around Biggin Hill in July 1977 and was bought up short by this "Beech 200 SP" with a Brazilian registration on the then customs ramp - it belonged to Emerson Fittipaldi who was in the UK for the British Grand Prix (at Silverstone not Brand's Hatch!).

Bunch of DH types and a Travel Air heading westwards towards Duxford - or if they miss, perhaps Old Warden!

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Wed 21 Jun 2023, 8:49 pm

No, ARCo just completed a three-year restoration/overhaul of ML417, for owner Dan Friekdin, with it making its first post-restoration test flight yesterday.

Thank you!

ML417 isn't going to be converted back to TR.IX standard is she?

Wow, a thing of beauty!

Heard TE517 depart Biggin from about four or five miles away a little after 8am - sounded great - had a distant glimpse a week or two back. I see Robs Lamplough first added her to the register as G-BIXP in 1981, which I well recall seeing in Air Britain News - another Spit! Been a long time coming, ...

Is that Learjet owned by the Greys?

Many thanks all, Happy New Year and looking forward to 2023's updates!

Ah, so that's where N266EA was off to, flew over me twice yesterday!

The Vega Gull is a thing of beauty - never coincided with it anywhere, maybe one day...

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DCW wrote: ↑

Wed 27 Jul 2022, 8:08 pm

Newly restored Spitfire FR.XIV RM927 (G-SXIV) arrived from Sywell [...]

To quote Stevie Wonder: isn't she lovely? What a beauty!

And to quote Tony the Tiger, I'll bet she sounds Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

Needs to lose the spinner to look like a proper T-41B

Wonder why they weren't fitted with spinners? The O-2s weren't either...

Sleap Fly-in definitely only accepting visitors by air, the organisers are not geared up for visitors by road, this year at least. The airfield manager seems a really nice guy and dead keen to encourage air-mindedness particularly amongst the young, so who knows what they'll be able provide next year.

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Hooligan wrote: ↑

Tue 17 May 2022, 12:29 pm

Lovely to see the Walrus, is work on it progressing? Not heard anything in a long time...

The Walrus is privately owned, sadly there are no details of plans for this aircraft in the public domain.

Thanks!

Lovely to see the Walrus, is work on it progressing? Not heard anything in a long time...

Great to see N18V again - I saw it at Southend in about 1980 and never since. Saw another US registered Staggerwing flying over Lasham in 1978, think it was UK based for a while but never saw it again either.

So not only has Prince Charles flown the Spitfire but I believe he also learned to fly in the Chipmunk! And probably flown the 146 as well...

I went up the Thameslink to St Albans last week and there was a large section of blue helicopter at the back of the RAFM halls which I think must be the EH/AW101 - blue is as I recall it at Farnborough all those years ago! Weston-super-Mare a good home for it?

Great pics!

Fantastic to see the collection of Spitfires. Shame that Christophe Jacquard's Mk 19 reverted to the proper Griffon/prop combination - it would have been interesting to have a contra-prop on show as part of the evolution even if not the right mark. Anyone know how the Seafire F.46 restorations are c...