Early o'clock setup. The team, minus the photographer:
The crowd took a great interest throughout the day, in spite of F-35s and Red Arrows:
Star of the show was of course, Adrian's new acquisition from David Skeldon the FV4002 Centurion Armoured Vehicle Layer Bridge (AVLB):
But not without the need for running repairs (as ever):
We found the only "river" in town (it was a flat airfield after all):
And with this to hand:
Why would you not want to re-create this from Vietnam, 1970:
Glad that we avoided this:
And then a highlight of any air day, mounting the C-17. A large fleet of very valuable "super-cars" with their owners' super egos turned up but had to wait until we'd strutted our one sixth scale stuff:
The line up (driving courtesy of the USAF crew):
And then Meghan asked if she could have a ride.......
We're very obliging. So thank you to Denny for organising our attendance, to Mark (who travelled long distance to arrive at 0630), to David, Steve and Adrian for good company, cakes and tea.
Oh, there were aeroplanes too and where aeroplanes go, so does Dan Scholefield. Never mind the pointy things which make a lot of noise, these are real aeroplanes, flown by the British Army. I've spent 350 hours of my life flying these three, which were amongst a display of 9 military Austers. Good to see old friends again:
- TW536, Auster AOP Mk6, the "Korea Auster", fought in Korea with the UN Force.
- MT438, Auster AOP Mk III, the "Burma Auster", fought it the Far East with 656 Sqn.
- WE569, Auster T7, two seat Air OP trainer
Happy landings. Stephen
