Ah Bast0n .. what splendiffery are you assaulting us with now!
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424 I ramble on about my first ever flight in a helicopter where I wrote:
Up until that point the only contraption which had captured my imagination was the hovercraft, which I loved, especially Hoverlloyd's red and white beasts.
So, your shot is (for me) just fantastic! Many thanks.
A Manfred Mann 206 carrying-out a photographic assignment with Seaspeed c. 1970's
The fabulous SRN4 departing Dover Hoverport
500 Fan, seeing as you dug up the Osborn story; this is for you:
Hughes 500C G-BDFP at Battersea Heliport in 1977 (Photo: Anton Heumann)
Though known for much of her life as G-OAIM this craft started-out as BDFP initially sold to 'Hughes' of Beaconsfield in 1975 but then to remain in the stewardship of John E. Clarke & Co. (Bournemouth) for some 14 years between 1976 and 1990.