FighterControl

Hi All,
My earliest shots from my local airport, when I was a mere schoolboy.
Used to cycle to the airport during PE,under the pretence of `cross country running`
My camera was a Zorki 4K rangefinder.































Memories

Great set

Great colour pictures of the CAACU residents, some of which are familiar from their subsequent existance.

Thanks for posting

Cessna

Now that's what I call a trip down memory lane! Good quality images too.

Fantastic set of images, thanks for posting.

Wow now that was a nice surprise - excellent post

Superb, wish I had a time machine!

Wow, fantastic pics

Fab set there

Love the T7 and NF11 Meatbox shots particularly

Some real memory jerkers there for us of a certain age

Cheers

Paddyboy

What a great post! Certainly a trip down memory lane for me having spent holidays in the West country during my school days. First visit to Exeter airport was in 1961 - had no idea what was there and my log of the visit went missing long ago. Only flying going on was by a few civies then I discovered that No3 CAAU were there and a member of staff offered to show my father and I around a hangar which was crammed with Mosquito's - think there were 8 or 9 in there, even got to sit in the cockpit of one!

Next visit was in Aug'63 - no Mossies noted, think they had gone by then but recorded the following:

Meteor WA593, WD646`R`, WD702`U`and WM270`Y`
Vampire WZ608`54`,WZ620`68`, XD427`23`, XD623`64`, XE860`69`, XE928`76`and XK632`67`

- that airport was certainly well worth a visit!

Wow - what a fantastic post - where have you been hiding all this time?

The Meteor T7 picture - WL349 - features a white farmhouse on a hill in the background - I'm sure this is the same farmhouse that features in the book - Battle Of Britain - then & now.

Do you have any more?

Another great post, when these were taken I was living about 20 miles to the East, I had no idea these were on the doorstep

Nice selection of aircraft, but I really like the Wessex

Many thanks for sharing, keep them coming please !

Interesting shots, I worked at Exeter airport in 1975 but sadly these had long gone.

Superb historical shots there, nice to see what was around in the year of my birth!! Would love to see some more please!

Steve.

Superb set,brings back memories,I must dig out all my slides of the Vamps and MeteorTT20,s from the attic. I,ve always lived within a mile of the airport so remember them well.Like the times when they would de-ice the runway by taxying a Vamp along it and sight of the drouges being towed by the TT20,s and then dropped on the airport. New a lot of the pilots and drogue operators , great characters.Also remember the Mossys departing over my primary school in 62/63 in formation to make the film 633 Sqn. I don,t think Treasbeare Farm[the white farmhouse] was used in the film B of B,its still there by the way.

NickB it is the same house in the background of the Hurricane shot

Timb , you will be please to know Treasbeare Farm is still there, Grade 2 listed

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk ... on/bingmap

I could sit and look at shot's like these all day.nice quality as well
Chris

Fantastic

I believe that some of the 3/4 CAACU Vampires ended up in store at Hullavington. I presume that they were eventually scrapped.

The Meteor T.7 is/was at Staverton in its own little "Gate Guard" compound painted up as "Z" of 229OCU. Does anyone know if it is still there??

This post is only worth a 'one word' response....that being "WOW!"

Arthur

rh226 wrote:Fantastic
The Meteor T.7 is/was at Staverton in its own little "Gate Guard" compound painted up as "Z" of 229OCU. Does anyone know if it is still there??

Still at Staverton but in store with the Jet Age Museum