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Old 3rd Jan 2016, 12:20
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BigDotStu
 
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the Beagle Husky was a new one on me, but on checking it, seems to be just a big Piper Cub. Looks nice to fly, should be very stable.
I certainly had no problems with some gentle turns and keeping mostly S&L to Duxford and back. Sometimes wish I had pursued matters back then - probably should have hooked up with UAS when at university, but inexplicably this never occurred to me at the time, despite sharing a flat with a fellow engineering student who had already obtained her PPL before uni.

I hadn't realised that there was an ITW at Cambridge in university/college buildings and accommodation during the war, presumably tied with 22 E(R)FTS run by Marshalls at Cambridge (who I note also ran 25ERFTS at Kidlington, thus providing UAS facilities for Oxford as well as Cambridge, as well as 4FIS at Cambridge and another EFTS down in Wiltshire). Learned a lot of local wartime history in the last 24 hours whilst chasing around on Google.

Teabar in corner of crewroom, 2d in the jar, please
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