planedriver

Noice noise...

My horrible mean & nasty wife is making me go to Flying Legends this year I am just trying to decide what other shows to attend while we are in the UK. I would really like to see the Avro Vulcan fly.

P.S. Don't forget to visit the RAF museum in NW London, it's amazing.

Would love to attend the show at Duxford in July, what a magnificent array of old warbirds and others, brilliant......

1. Let it load COMPLETELY.

2, View it full screen

3 Set volume control to highest level tolerable

http://player.vimeo.com/video/93587997

As a child born towards the end of WW2, we lived in Surrey midway between Biggin Hill with its squadrons of Spitfires, Kenley Aerodrome with the Hurricanes and Croydon Airport with mainly DC3s. So we saw plenty of aircraft activity which got me intrigued.

Mr Davis the bank manager who lived up the road used to fly a Tiger Moth and he took me for my first ride when I was about 8yrs old and I couldn't see over the sides properly but I loved it. He promised me that next time we would do a loop the loop, but that never happened as he died of a heart attack a few months later.

One thing funny that I remember when we got our first television, a black and white 12inch screen Murphy, was when the milkmans son came around to watch it. It was the first time he'd seen a television and the program had this aeroplane flying towards the camera. Well the poor little bugger nearly sh*t himself because he thought it was going to come crashing through the screen, so he dived under the dining table to get out of the way and gashed his head in the process.

There is a remote possiblity that was an open and shut case!

But at the worse, only once, hopefully.

Yea but there were a couple of other posts against that

Only took me a a couple of hours and best part of a bottle of red, as I remembered coming across it a few nights before while researching another one of yours.

I'm a semi-retired profesional person so maybe I can can send you a bill for the time it took me. After all you invited us to name that plane.

Thank God we don't live in the litigious USA or these posts might grind to an abrupt halt.

Kind regards

Planey

Problem solved!

Big flash house with 8 car 3 level garage full of vintage, veteran and megabucks cars overlooking Sydney Harbour and a wedding with 150 guests next weekend and the needs to impress.

Suddenly gates no worky. Yee Ha, you beaudy! You pay me and gates fixed no charge on the spot under warranty.

Reluctantly agreed, and a 50 cent capacitor had it all up and running and money in my pocket albeit 4 mths late.

So I didn't take any further a/fence or offence.

2004 Narushevich Ring Wing experimental from Minch Belarus

Poor Buggars!

That would certainly stuff up a good day out for a couple of senior cit's.

Good luck fellah's, wish you all the best.

Kind Regards

Planey

Looking great, and come a long way. Well done!

Hint: It's British.

Well done!

So it wasn't an Ian Baker delivery truck after all

Not sure what this is?

But have been told on dubious authority it was used to deliver a keg of beer to Ian's tent at the last Norromine meet.

Well done PapaFox.

I thought it looked like a Hurricane wing, but didn't know about the second wing version.

That red750 certainly knows how to dig them up.

First of all I thought it was a Hawker Fury or Demon, but the wing shape was wrong, so I was stumped.

Looks like the bloke I supplied automatic gates to who never finalised his bill, then shot through.

Just half a man, who needs propping up.

Sorry, Maj. It's a Velie Monocoupe.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velie_Monocoupe

Go and check to see how your tomato's are coming along, or give us a few more clue's:pull hair:

Kind Regards

Planey

When your smiley solicitor shakes you by the hand and says "that was a great result" he's referring to his bank balance of course, and although you might have been awarded X grand, the nasty surprise normally comes later with his final bill with all the extra incidentials, so you have just enough left for the postage stamp to post your final cheque:gaah:

Been there, done that.

Beautiful Mick!

What more can one say.

Take plenty of money with you, a sandwich for the flight and your own toilet roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1yIRABPQQ

Thanks for putting me out of my misery Peter.

It appears to be based on the 1934 straight wing Reliant and looks slightly longer in the nose section.

I remember chatting to the late Scott Winton many moons ago. He was in the process of replacing a tail boom with one of heavier gauge, as the original was starting to crack next to where the fibreglass was formed around it at the front end. He said it suffered from flexing at that point and had a limited life. Quick changes in attitude and fast tight turns demanded something more substantial.

Geez! the years roll by so quickly, I can only guess that would have been back in the late 1980's or early 1990's when he was designing and building in his small hanger near Lake Munmorah. Lovely bloke to chat to and his contribution to the ultralight fraternity hopefully will never be forgotten following his unfortunate demise.

Looks to me like an old Fairchild 24 which not all had radial engines?