Old aviation stuff wanted for charity.
 

I've just signed up to do a 5-day camel trek across the Gobi Desert next year. To do this I need to raise £2500 for the Blue Cross, who rescue abandoned and illtreated animals, and also provide free veterinary treatment for pet owners on low incomes. I've paid a £300 registration fee, and donated £500 of my own money; that should cover costs, so all donations after that will go to straight to the charity.

That's where I hope you lot come in. I have a source for selling old and out-of-date aviation stuff - charts, flight guides, books...anything at all really. It's primarily collectors and sim enthusiasts, and they'll buy virtually anything. You don't really need last year's Pooley's, do you? So rather than throw the stuff away, or leave it cluttering up the house, can you please send it to me? If so, send me a PM and I'll give you my address - I'd rather not post that here.

Of course, straightforward donations are equally acceptable - if not more so!

BRL, I hope this isn't breaking any rules, and...any chance of making it a sticky for a bit?

Comments as to my sanity or otherwise concerning the camel trek are not required. :D

Whirly, could I interest your hunt in a Mk27H Aircrew Life Preserver perchance? Deactivated but not mutilated, may well interest a collector. Your PM doesn't want to work for me, so please try mine if you're interested. :D

Handy:ok:

OK Whirly.... on way. :ok:

Handyandy,

I got your pm, and have replied, saying yes please!

Hmmm... well so far I only have offers of Andy's life preserver, and possibly an old ejection seat!!!!! That's great, and much appreciated, but what about the more mundane stuff? Come on, what do you usually do with your out-of-date charts? You can't ALL be papering the loo walls with them! Couldn't you just...please...put them in an envelope...and...only when it's convenient, mind...send them to me. Pleeasssse!!!!!!!!

Ive got a couple of old things, satrting with ME, and ending with a couple of old charts and a pooleys, if you PM your abode I will send to you.

:O

Whirly - will have a scratch around and see what I can find. ISTR there's a 1997 copy of Pooley's somewhere in my flight case [I take it that used sick bags are not required?? ;)]. There was a Vintage Aircraft Engineer for sale on EBay a few weeks ago, but it got removed!! :D

5 days camel trekking, eh - not nearly as special as flying heliocopeters in Russia!! :)

Circuit Basher and vfrpilotpb,

Many thanks, and check your pms.

I have a new fundraising idea!!!!!!!!

TREK THE GOBI WITH ME! For a minimum £5 donation, I will write your name on a Tshirt, and I will wear this Tshirt while on the trek. Hopefully I will get some photos of me wearing it, and some clever person can post them on here for me. The (tenuous) aviation connection is that I'm copying Polly Vacher, who got signatures on her aircraft for donations (more than £5 ones; this is a bargain!) for her "Wings around the world" record breaking flight.

The easiest way to do this is to donate to my PayPal account, using [email protected]. But if you want to send cheques, I'll let you have my address.

Wow, all parcels arrived together; it was like Christmas today! Thanks folks, and thanks to those who sent donations. But more would be most welcome!

Whirly
 

I have some odds and ends gathering dust (96 Pooleys, charts etc) but am concerned that the postage will cost more than you can sell it for.

A plan is hatching (painfully slowly) in my mind that maybe the London bash on the 18th might provide an opportunity to gather up a collection of aviation odds and ends. If we can work out some means of getting the goods to Wales without troubling the Royal Mail then you (ie the Blue Cross) will be quids in. Pprune relay perhaps?

Any thoughts people? :confused:

TG.

p.s. yes I know I'm being incredibly tight, but I'm an engineer. I can't help it. :O

I may be heading up that way in November. I was due to pick up some music equipment but that will not be ready for another couple of weeks. I was going to pick it all up this weekend but as I say it has been called off for a while. I could kill two birds with one stone and drop them off whilst I am up that way as I have to go to Liverpool/Wirral.

Many thanks guys. I do see the problem. I should be at the Cosford picnic at the end of October if that's any help, and hopefully at the Gatbash in December. So hopefully we can sort something out.

Meanwhile...over £200 made on Ebay in two weeks for the Blue Cross!!! And I haven't even put any of the stuff PPRUNers have sent me on there yet.

Sorry for the delay, Whirly, but yesterday I finally got around to posting an old (spiral bound 96 vintage) Pooleys and an Aerad Flight Info Supp in case it's of any value to someone.

Many thanks CB. Someone will want it; the other aviation items prooners so kindly sent me are doing well on Ebay...anyone want me to post links?

So far I've raised over £300 in three weeks, from donations and Ebay sales. So it really works! But I need another £1700, so please keep sending the stuff to me.

Got a full world set of Jeppersens in leather binders!!!!

Last updated approx 18months ago so no use for planning purposes if interested!!


Veeps :ok:

VP8,
Yes please!!!! Check your pms.

Whirly, it would help if you put up a link to your stuff on here. :)

Links to Whirly's aviation related stuff on Ebay
 

OK BRL, your wish is my command ;)

Quarter mil Borders chart
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...gory=4783&rd=1

Quarter mil Central England/Wales chart
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...gory=4783&rd=1

1999 Pooleys
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...gory=4783&rd=1

RAF Life Preserver
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ory=13981&rd=1

I'll add more to this post as I put them on Ebay - should be more tonight if I get time, and probably some high vis waistcoats at the weekend if my cheap source has any left. All going to charity, folks. And thanks again for the donations. :ok:

Update
 

The out-of-date Pooleys sold for £9.50, and the old charts for £5.60 each, with a request for the southern quarter mil if I had it - anyone got one? And the RAF Life Preserver just sold for £21.50. So thanks a lot folks...and please keep 'em coming. Sorry I haven't had time to keep the links up to date, but all my aviation-related stuff is in the aviation section of Ebay - surprise surprise! :) I have a cheap source of nasty high vis yellow waistcoats, so those are there too if anyone wants one. :( :eek:

So far I've raised nearly £500 since Sept 19th, from donations, Ebay sales, and similar, so many thanks.

Another £1500 approx still needed....

I'm fairly sure I've got a 1996 Southern quarter mil chart you could have. Will check tonight.

TG.

Thanks TG. :ok: Let me know if you've got it, and I'll pm you my address.