Anyone have a date of departure for these? I was going to try and head up next week, possibly Wednesday….

Departed just after 9 apparently.

Alenia Aermacchi, it appears, are offering the Spartan for UK Military use, ahead of the SDSR........

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... uk-416859/

The AVCS will take the form of a number of black rectangular boxes (about twice the size of a shoe box, depending on shoe size!), or white double circle (like a figure 8 outline) units bolted to the airframe proper. Usually you find them in the airframe, but the S92 has a set in the nose wheel well....

Whilst I'm not saying you are categorically wrong, Malcolm, (I'm not that arrogant) I'd be very surprised if those are to do with avcs. All of the AVCS I've dealt with have been mechanical units, usually bolted to the cabin or airframe itself. Essentially, they are heavy weights that move in compens...

I recently had some slides sent away for scanning, and these are some of the results..... First, Waddington http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Slide%20Scans/S_05_zps9e490a9d.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Slide%20Scans/S_06_zpsb584ef52.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K...

Who will train the next generation ? Would doubt Bristows will have a training school turning out new crews. Bristow do indeed have a training school, for both engineers and pilots, with a fully functioning EASA/CAA certified S-92A simulator positioned at Aberdeen. Indeed, many pilots have transiti...

Article in this weeks Flight carries the following: "Hammond also revealed that the Ministry of Defence currently favours the Royal Air Force’s Marham base in Norfolk to become the main operating site for its F-35B Lightning IIs, "but that no decision has yet been made"." Link here : http://www.flig...

Thanks for the replies chaps. yes I have teh SAAB 105 as 29th June as well. Further digging has thrown up the following: B747-400 as 29/04/88 Polikarpov I-5 29/04/30 Cessna CitationJet CJ4 29/04/91 Embraer Phenom 300 29/04/08 The ide was to build a model of an aircraft that first flew on the birth d...

For a project I'm considering can anybody advise of any aircraft which had a first flight of 29th April, any year?

A search on the internetm'bob has proved inconclusive at best so hopefully someone can come up with something.........

A few years ago I had and became reasonably copmetent at alcon 4.0, the original Korean edition. For one reason or another I no longer have it. Coming back to the military FlightSim market, I'm contemplating Falcon 4.0 Allied Force, but before I purchase I wondered if any of you guys could recomend ...

headset 57 wrote:am i the only one who think the wrong side won in WWII, Luftwaffe must be turning in their graves...

What does that post actually mean

Can anyone advise of or recommend any aviation tour companies. I'm aware of Ian Allan Tours, but looking for others.

Regards

Thanks Mike, that's good to see a log. My only wish is that Dad had taken more photos when he had the chance. I guess it would have been hard to appreciate then what interest we'd be showing now. Actually, no, My only wish would be to go back in time in a go-back-in-time-type thingimey-bob with a di...

This is from the 1969 RAF Leuchars Airshow. The slide quality really goes downhill here, but I hope it's still of some interest. Ironically these ones are actually Kodachrome, which I'd have thought would have survived better than the earlier stuff, which I think was Perutz: http://i3.photobucket.co...

Highlight for me is the shot with the two Belgian F-84s.

I know the Argosy shot is less than perfect, but I've included it because it's in the air and so should hopefully be of interest.

1965 Leuchars Airshow here. All of these of course taken pre SLR by my father with his trusty Halina 35mm paralax, which I must say is still going strong. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Old%20Scans/2010-12-26_0-1.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Old%20Scans/2010-12-26_1-1.jpg h...

Thanks folks. I'll post a few other from other years later, but time hasn't been kind to the slides I'm afraid, 65 and 69 are much worse than these.

In this set, the Norwegian F-86s have to be the pick of the bunch for me.

Some scans of my father's rather fading slides from 1964 airshow at RAF Leuchars: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Old%20Scans/2010-12-26_1.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Old%20Scans/2010-12-26_0.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/P3K/Old%20Scans/2010-12-26_2.jpg http://i...