Originally Posted by
SFCC
I have very happy memories of being flown around the Kent countryside by my Father in that very aeroplane.
Happy days indeed and I'm sorry it met it's end like that.
Yes it's in my log book too; used to be based at Lydd. It had one engine failure mid channel on one occasion with one of the cylinders detaching from the engine block - not uncommon with the Continental - but she kept her feet dry and made it back to Lydd on 5 cylinders ; she was no spring chicken then and it was in the 1980s