A couple of questions for you Beags:
1. How the hell did it get there in the first place? 36-18 is only about 3000ft long IIRC and I can't imagine it being carted through the local lanes in bits to be rigged on site. Must have been an "interesting" approach and landing.
2. Does everything that is parked on the grass along the length taxiway have to foxtrot oscar before you trundle down there or is the a/c towed and started up on the runway. (Oops, sorry- you probably use the 18 end, right?)
3. Is Rodney, the Indian Cavalier, still next door at SWFS? (Ex-Scots DG IIRC)
I can't imagine the locals taking too kindly to the noise of 4 x Olympus engines in the neighbourhood, especially those sods in that village to the north that force even lowly 152s to make a noise abatement turn after t/o.
Ahhhhh, Wellesbourne. I'm getting all dewey-eyed and nostalgic now... even if my instructor was an ocean-going stroker who almost put me off flying for life.