What lurks at White Waltham - Helmy Aerogypt
"I wonder what else lurks in the long grass at Waltham!"
Old thread, but only just found it. In the good old days when I wandered WW watching the Rotodyne/ Gannets etc, I was a kid hanging around & photographing delightful aircraft like the AA's DH89. Whilst so doing, I got wind of an interesting relic & headed off to the north-east of the club/ Personal Plane Services hangars. Walked about half a mile down a track, crossed the railway, & found in a garden the remains of the Helmy Aerogypt, built at WW in the war, & wrecked later, reputedly when it fell off a crane at Northolt. Fuselage was pretty much complete, still in original [blue?] colour, marked as G-AFFG. Was then occupied by a large group of chickens.
I first flew out of White Waltham with Peter Franklin in his Hornet Moth. He took up my wife first, who had never flown. Peter was not a chatty chap, & cut the engine without telling my wife what he was doing -- took several years before I got her back into an aeroplane willingly....... Happy days.