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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Dec 2014, 13:47
Replies: 30
Views: 8,803
Posted By johnbunting

All-moving tailplanes

Not sure what is meant by 'invented' here, but one of the Slingsby Petrel sailplanes c. 1939, had an all-moving tailplane,and I suspect a few other earlier aircraft did also.
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Nov 2013, 21:21
Replies: 15
Views: 5,454
Posted By johnbunting

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that someone hanging...

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that someone hanging half-way out of RB-J's port side?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Oct 2012, 14:08
Replies: 24
Views: 4,572
Posted By johnbunting

Thanks for your replies, everyone, and for the...

Thanks for your replies, everyone, and for the photographs. Nice to know my recognition skills are not entirely dead. At my age it's just the modern stuff I can't identify.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Oct 2012, 12:03
Replies: 24
Views: 4,572
Posted By johnbunting

Restored Anson?

I have just seen, at 12.40 BST today, 16/10/'12, over Godalming, Surrey, what looked like an Avro Anson. I could be wrong, as the last one I saw was probably about 1945; but judging by the sound and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Jan 2012, 18:12
Replies: 129
Views: 31,689
Posted By johnbunting

Are sailplanes allowed? Slingsby Petrel,...

Are sailplanes allowed?
Slingsby Petrel, (1939). Very relaxing, thermalling at 25 knots; and beautiful with it. 'God's Own Aeroplane', one of my fellow syndicate members used to call it.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Nov 2011, 10:35
Replies: 8
Views: 1,894
Posted By johnbunting

Jenkins, Re. the Christchurch 1940 glider...

Jenkins,
Re. the Christchurch 1940 glider activity, would that be the tests described by Philip Wills? Apparently he was towed out over the Channel by a 504, and released to see whether shore-based...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Nov 2011, 12:15
Replies: 8
Views: 1,551
Posted By johnbunting

Thanks, tk. Granted that my memory may be less...

Thanks, tk. Granted that my memory may be less than perfect, I am at least sure that the Scion I saw was four-engined, whereas G-AEZF was a twin.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Nov 2011, 15:52
Replies: 8
Views: 1,551
Posted By johnbunting

Ff5: Our visit to Hendon (thanks!) might have...

Ff5: Our visit to Hendon (thanks!) might have been a year or two earlier than '55 - memory's a bit hazy after 55-odd years - but no doubt about the Scion being there. I only heard about the weird...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Nov 2011, 11:38
Replies: 8
Views: 1,551
Posted By johnbunting

Thanks, BB. I thought there might be a ghost of a...

Thanks, BB. I thought there might be a ghost of a chance that someone might remember that particular Scion: my interest in old aircraft was barely off the ground at the time, hence I didn't note the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Nov 2011, 12:18
Replies: 8
Views: 1,551
Posted By johnbunting

Scion Senior, c. 1955

About 1955 I went with some friends from Lasham either to Croydon or Hendon - for the life of me I can't now remember which! - as we'd heard someone might have one or two gliders for sale there. I do...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Nov 2011, 12:19
Replies: 116
Views: 37,135
Posted By johnbunting

I seem to remember a pub at or near Calshot,...

I seem to remember a pub at or near Calshot, which had some photos and maybe other memorabilia of the Schneider Trophy races. Anyone know its name?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Sep 2011, 17:08
Replies: 12
Views: 5,351
Posted By johnbunting

Apart from 'plane', I think he also referred to...

Apart from 'plane', I think he also referred to the Focke-Wulf 190 as a 'Fokker' !
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Nov 2010, 17:40
Replies: 3
Views: 1,093
Posted By johnbunting

Yes, WHBM: even before the war, I remember in...

Yes, WHBM: even before the war, I remember in 1938 my father worked at RAF Marham, and we went there one day with an aunt and uncle, in his car, and were stopped on the perimeter track by an RAF...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Nov 2010, 14:14
Replies: 3
Views: 1,093
Posted By johnbunting

Airfield security, post-war

It seems amazing, now, how one could wander onto some RAF stations so easily just after the war. I used to cycle off the main road to my room in the NCOs accomodation at Lyneham, where I worked in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Nov 2010, 12:21
Replies: 26
Views: 5,487
Posted By johnbunting

This might be just odd rather than interesting: a...

This might be just odd rather than interesting: a glider winch launch to 4200 ft, on a windy day at Lasham, 17 November 1955, in the Slingsby T42 'Eagle' 2-seater. My instructor was David Kerridge,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Nov 2010, 17:10
Replies: 1,274
Views: 650,716
Posted By johnbunting

T21 ID

For what it's worth, my first ever flight was in the Bristol Gliding Club's T21B, No. BGA616, at Lulsgate, June 1951. Also did my A-certificate hop in their Cadet, BGA445.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Nov 2010, 13:37
Replies: 196
Views: 35,286
Posted By johnbunting

Mine was in a Bristol Gliding Club T-21 at...

Mine was in a Bristol Gliding Club T-21 at Lulsgate in 1950. The instructor was J M Hobkirk. Anyone remember him?
First powered flight: in a friend's Aeronca C-3, G-AEWU, from Farnborough to Lasham,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Nov 2009, 18:02
Replies: 237
Views: 100,325
Posted By johnbunting

Thanks to all for these fascinating Farnborough...

Thanks to all for these fascinating Farnborough memories.
I arrived there in 1951, after Met Office jobs at Lyneham and Aldergrove. Not at the RAE proper, but the Institute of Aviation Medicine,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Nov 2009, 18:15
Replies: 3
Views: 2,669
Posted By johnbunting

Snargasher

Chris.
Having just returned to the site for the first time in over a year, I've just seen your Jan 2009 request for information on the R & S Snargasher. Did you find a copy of the Aeromodeller...
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