Morning all
Just seen this thread about Air Touring Club. As a family the old clubhouse was our regular haunt while Dad (Bill Barker) was training for his PPL on the tin parachutes. Lots of happy memories of clambering up the stairs to what was at the time the best view of the runway with decent bench seats aroung the edges and watching the Rallye death plunge at the end of 11. Radio traffic was very amusing in those days with the pilots commenting on thier approaches to the club on the short runway, keeping the audience amused with their banter about the instructors. We used to play in the blast pens where they kept the spitfires in ww2. On bonfire night we would split up into two gangs, adults and kids and launch fireworks at each other over the separator between the two pens. no-one got hurt........much. Dad and his instructor Gordon Quinnell were asked by a local TV company to do a flyby in 'India Whisky' for the cameras and this is what it looked like........
Oops, 9 more posts to go until I can share that
TTFN Clive Barker