Some nice old birds for sale
 

Looks to be the aircraft from Classic Flight at Coventry, I am sure there will be a few memories for some in this lot below.

METEOR T7 ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

DH112 VENOM FB1 ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

METEOR NF11 ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

DH115 VAMPIRE MK55 ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

P84 JET PROVOST T3A ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

JET PROVOST T MK5A ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

PEMBROKE P66 ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

ANSON T21 ? Platinum Classic Aircraft

Better go buy a lottery ticket for Friday.

Which was quicker....the dearly beloved Anson or Pony Express.

First aeroplane in which I ever flew, the Anson (TX219 ISTR) aged 13. Biggest worry, I might not like it. Waiting one day at Royan ferry terminal another UK car stopped behind us and we got chatting. When he heard I was on my way to a RAFA meeting he asked if I had ever flown in an Avro aircraft. I said that I had, only once and it had been an Anson, and asked him why the specific question. "Oh," he said, my grandfather was A V Roe." It was actually the anniversary year of Roe's first flight.

I don't know why, but I've always been fascinated by the De Havilland twin boom jets

I thought this was going to be another T C-T thread...

Kitbag,

Me too. I was lucky enough to have a ride in a Vampire at Shawbury in 1968. My one and only ride on a live ejection seat.

Four years ago in NZ, I had several flights in an ex-Swiss Vampire (in exchange for lots of small pieces of paper :) ) including multiple touch and goes. "Just fly it like a 250 kt motorglider!"

I wrote to a friend and told him that the cockpit seemed smaller than I remembered. He charitably suggested that perhaps I was flying a ⅞ scale Vampire! ;)

I have a lot of fun telling my North American pilot friends that I've flown a wooden jet fighter. Here's my favourite photo of "my" Vampire:
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ndMosquito.jpg

Two De Havilland fighter bombers! :ok:

The Pony Express had far more Horse Power and better acceleration.

OK SASless,

You win! What's the Pony Express?

Nice pic, India 42. I spent time at RAAF Pearce between the ages of 11 and 17, watching the Vampires flying overhead. Probably the final piece of the jigsaw that confirmed my desire to be a pilot. Twelve years RAF, followed by twenty-eight commercial. If only I had the money. The Vampire for the reason above, the JP3 for old-time's sake, and the Anson for fun.

The JP3, now theres a memory, constant thrust variable noise.

What an awesome photo.....!
Another Mossie due to fly in NZ this week I believe..

When I was in NZ, I was at Ardmore, on my way down to New Plymouth to fly the Vampire, the Vampire's owner took me down to Avspecs and I was allowed to sit in the Mossie! I saw the fuselage of the second Mossie at the back of the hangar.

One of the two highlights of my day, because later, I was asked "Do you want a whizz round the harbour in the Mustang?" :E

And don't forget there is an airworthy Mossie in Victoria BC, so the new Kiwi one will be the third. :ok:

Talking of Mossie's what ever happened to the one that sat in the corner of the hangar at RAF Swinderby. I think it was yellow, last time I saw it was around 1980.

And was still there in Nov 1983 when I passed through Swinderby.

Wander00 That was EXACTLY my fear leading up to my first flight also aged around 13. Nearly 50 years later I still remember the joy of that flight. Unfortunately when it came to eyesight I was nowhere near the front of the queue, a fact which stopped any chance of a career in the air, something that ticks me off to this very day.

In another life as a reporter - I shot a TV story with Glyn who was rebuilding the first Mossie fuselages in Auckland.
Video of lofting - construction etc here.

My first flight aged six was in an ex-RAF Anson-turned airliner. I am told that the Vampire Trainer cockpit-front fuselage was heavily indebted to the Mosquito, but while I know the Vampire, I don't know the Mosquito, so I don't know how true that is.

My first flight in an RAF passenger aircraft (and only my 3rd ever flight) was in an Anson of one of the last Comms Flights which still survived in 1965. Route was Catterick to Odiham and return, flown by a WW2 vintage Master Pilot. Even at that early stage I realised that I was privileged to see a part of an RAF that was soon to disappear. Aircraft don't even smell the same any more - if somebody could bottle that smell you only got in old piston aircraft I suspect they would do a roaring trade.