Set up a DC-3 group?
Joined: Apr 2002
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From: Norfolk
Hey Stik
Someone once said to the wright brothers that they would never be able to fly - they managed to obscure their Reality sensor and make it work.
I guess if it was easy the skies would be full of DC3 rebuilds. Not far from you is a guy who decided that he could rebuild, fly, and display a P51. He achieved it, a task considerably less easy than getting 10 people together in a DC3 and then displaying it.
I thought you were made of more positive stuff than that!
I guess you don't want it in your garden then if it eventually happens?
Now I know you are friendly with a number of reasonably well off types who are into aviation so perhaps they could make the dream come true?.
I have been working at this desk now for 12 hours in the hope that my reward package will be increased to allow me to fritter more money on aviation dreams - never mind you are probably right. This sort of fun is for others. I'm going to cut my wrists - well maybe just scratch myself slightly I can't be bothered to do anything more than that.
Isn't it about time we sorted the pics of your new PP? - hope you have got some words together now.
Someone once said to the wright brothers that they would never be able to fly - they managed to obscure their Reality sensor and make it work.
I guess if it was easy the skies would be full of DC3 rebuilds. Not far from you is a guy who decided that he could rebuild, fly, and display a P51. He achieved it, a task considerably less easy than getting 10 people together in a DC3 and then displaying it.
I thought you were made of more positive stuff than that!
I guess you don't want it in your garden then if it eventually happens?
Now I know you are friendly with a number of reasonably well off types who are into aviation so perhaps they could make the dream come true?.
I have been working at this desk now for 12 hours in the hope that my reward package will be increased to allow me to fritter more money on aviation dreams - never mind you are probably right. This sort of fun is for others. I'm going to cut my wrists - well maybe just scratch myself slightly I can't be bothered to do anything more than that.
Isn't it about time we sorted the pics of your new PP? - hope you have got some words together now.
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: Vancouver Island
LowNslow:
Phone Clive Edwards at 208 304 2857
Or
Mark Edwards at 162 272 6278
There may be one number in front of those two numbers when phoning in England/ the numbers I dial start with 011 44 then those numbers.
Clive lives in Welling and Mark lives about forty miles south of London.
Chuck
Phone Clive Edwards at 208 304 2857
Or
Mark Edwards at 162 272 6278
There may be one number in front of those two numbers when phoning in England/ the numbers I dial start with 011 44 then those numbers.
Clive lives in Welling and Mark lives about forty miles south of London.
Chuck
Joined: Sep 2002
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From: Midlands
Heavy metal syndicates
DC3 operation? Take out your wallets and repeat after me 'help yourself'. More feasible in the USA, not only becaue the fuel is cheaper. I bet it doesn't happen. A pity though - I remember it chugging in to Popham - so slooooow!
How about Rex Fords gorgeous Rapide at Sywell? Being brokered at £160k but presumably negotiable. It is on Public Transport - screaming out for a supporters club (code for - you pay for my flying, clean the thing, empty the Elsan, spend all day at airshows signing more up - whilst wearing a nice flying suit (with wings of course) - and get a ride once a year if you'r lucky.
Seriously - a Rapide does make more sense if you want something old, big and interesting, with more than one donkey.
Great pose value when you pitch up at a Fly-In.
I am in the Midlands and could be interested in the Spring if still available. Ideal scenario is for the aircraft to stay there and Rex maintains a share. He rebuilt it - he knows it inside out and backwards.
Bottie
How about Rex Fords gorgeous Rapide at Sywell? Being brokered at £160k but presumably negotiable. It is on Public Transport - screaming out for a supporters club (code for - you pay for my flying, clean the thing, empty the Elsan, spend all day at airshows signing more up - whilst wearing a nice flying suit (with wings of course) - and get a ride once a year if you'r lucky.
Seriously - a Rapide does make more sense if you want something old, big and interesting, with more than one donkey.
Great pose value when you pitch up at a Fly-In.
I am in the Midlands and could be interested in the Spring if still available. Ideal scenario is for the aircraft to stay there and Rex maintains a share. He rebuilt it - he knows it inside out and backwards.
Bottie
Joined: Apr 2002
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From: Norfolk
OK Bott
A much more practical proposition I agree. Not quite as impressive but a great machine. I think probably less useful on losing a fan than the DC3 (at least so I have been told) but loads of character. My £16k is a good bet for a 10 person group. When I eventually find time to do the commercial, poling the pleasure flight Rapide from Duxford around Cambridge is on my list of fun activities.
A much more practical proposition I agree. Not quite as impressive but a great machine. I think probably less useful on losing a fan than the DC3 (at least so I have been told) but loads of character. My £16k is a good bet for a 10 person group. When I eventually find time to do the commercial, poling the pleasure flight Rapide from Duxford around Cambridge is on my list of fun activities.
Joined: Feb 2002
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From: TUP!
Down & Out (and others)
You are right - Tony Holden was behind South Coast (in its last months) and behing the C47 club.
And it's no coincidence that all these went down (I too was a member of European Flyers. I did not lose as much money as some...but still).
You are right - Tony Holden was behind South Coast (in its last months) and behing the C47 club.
And it's no coincidence that all these went down (I too was a member of European Flyers. I did not lose as much money as some...but still).
