The weather is fine and the Nimrod is out to play. North Jr and I are going AWOL.

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I expect photos!!
Particularly of the BE2a 'fighter', which is really an artillery spotter with bolted on machine gun.

Enjoy yourselves. 'Himself' is very jealous. The high-spot here is waiting for the arrival of the two fire-spotting aircraft that get posted here each Summer. God knows how they keep them in the air, they must be museum exhibits themselves!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL-Mielec_M-18_Dromader

In case you're interested these are the fire-spotters. We only get the Canadairs if there is an actual fire, and the helicopters with a 'Big Bucket' suspended.

Shame It's just the running of the engines. Is this what we are reduced to now?

That is all you get ... and more even than the RAF now has.

Trusting you've had the best of days possible...

Thanks for the pics of the pretty aero-buzzers

That's an SE5a not a BE2a??

Gorblimey guv! I hadn't realized BE2 s knocked down 6 Zeppelins.
Biggles was always most rude about them.

I certainly thought it was an SE5a.

One of the times I've been there I was amused and impressed by the size of the Fairey Gannet. Folded up it looks ridiculous.

I wonder how much the fuel in the Victor tanker is worth.

You are so right about the Gannet ... the bumble bee of naval aviation.

A picture wot I took nearly four years ago:


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Very good ... nicely lit!

I see your Gannet, and raise you..

Sorry about the size of that, first time I've posted an image, and you can't get a B-36 in thumbnail. Other types left as an exercise for the reader.