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Post by PB on Oct 13, 2015 21:31:22 GMT
Thinking of the very many great people I've been lucky enough to know at Blackbushe since 1960, I wonder if anybody knows the whereabouts of any of these..
Rex Coates - BEA
Derek Barker _ Vickers, Weybridge.
Eric Blacklock - Tiger Club
Ron Palmer - Tiger Club
David Inman
Robin Page-Blair
Alan Wershatt - AC Cobra!
Ben Symons 3CAC instructor
Joe Meggeson - RAE Flying Club
Gary Tyler - Flew G-AEWY, Merchant Navy
David Rimmer - Rimmer Aviation
Ian Sincock _ Mini Cooper!
Helen Illott - 3CAC
Vic and Pat Hargreaves..3CAC instructor and better half
Derek and Elsie Johnson - Ran 3CAC before moving to USA
Peter Johnson - son of Derek and Elsie
Paul Gray - son of Ken and Dorothy
Nicola Freeman - Bill Freeman's daughter
Eddie Greengrove
Tim Vigors
Maurice Gosling - Big Mo!
Benji Britten - 3CAC
Ian Trethewy
Fred and Eric from the Blackbushe Parachute Club. ANY of the para mob??
So many more names that have slipped the fragile bonds of memory, so many faces I can see but whose names I cannot. It was so long ago, I fear the news may not be good in some cases, but all played great roles on the stage we know as Blackbushe.
PB
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Post by flyboy on Oct 14, 2015 12:43:28 GMT
Hi PB,
One I may be able to help with is Alan Wershat, who if it's the same person, used to or maybe still does own the Tipsy Junior G-AMVP. I last heard of him living in Shanklin, IOW in 2014. I have his address if you would like it. Stuart.
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Post by chevvron on Oct 14, 2015 20:16:32 GMT
Ellie Messer - instructor at 3CAC. Always wanted to try 'unusual attitudes' with me over Basingstoke!  Vic Hargreaves - gave me a GFT once; was instructor in the '152 which collided with a glider over Farnborough. |
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Post by PB on Oct 15, 2015 8:33:34 GMT
SM and Chevvron
Thanks to you both.
Stuart, yes please, perhaps you could email or PM the details?
TC..How could I forget Ellie? How could anyone forget Ellie? ...and Vic's incident over EGLF made the newspapers, but happily it was more of a midair brush than a collision as Vic returned to Blackbushe complete with Cessna attached..
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Post by exeglkflyer on Oct 19, 2015 21:29:35 GMT
I knew Vic quite well at the time of the glider collision (he did my GFT the same year), and he admitted he'd been very lucky. The wing of that Cessna was all but structurally severed at the root, the strut held it in place sufficiently for him to make an expeditious return to terra firma at EGLK.
Can't help with any of the other names I'm afraid. Probably before my time ;-)
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Post by chevvron on Oct 21, 2015 4:58:28 GMT
I knew Vic quite well at the time of the glider collision (he did my GFT the same year), and he admitted he'd been very lucky. The wing of that Cessna was all but structurally severed at the root, the strut held it in place sufficiently for him to make an expeditious return to terra firma at EGLK. Can't help with any of the other names I'm afraid. Probably before my time ;-) The glider came off worse though. As the last business movement had departed from Farnborough, I'd handed the airfield over to the gliding club. I couldn't go home as we still had to keep fully 'manned' ( I had a female controller [Sally in fact who still works at Farnborough] and female assistant on duty with me) until 5 pm. Then the gliding club called up on the radio and told me that 'one of their gliders had broken up and the pilot had parachuted out', so I pressed the 'crash' button - we still had an ambulance service as well as a fire/rescue crew in those days. Wasn't much the fire crew could do, but the ambulance picked up the pilot and were taking him to the medical centre when they told me he'd become hysterical and was raving 'that light aircraft knocked my tail off'. I told the gliding people and they said they had seen a Cessna type overhead which had turned and headed towards Blackbushe. Phoned Jamie and he said one had just landed with a damaged wing. I asked him to ask the pilot to phone us when he was able to and much to my surprise it was Vic. |
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Post by chevvron on Oct 21, 2015 5:12:12 GMT
SM and Chevvron Thanks to you both. Stuart, yes please, perhaps you could email or PM the details? TC..How could I forget Ellie? How could anyone forget Ellie? ...and Vic's incident over EGLF made the newspapers, but happily it was more of a midair brush than a collision as Vic returned to Blackbushe complete with Cessna attached.. Yes who could forget Ellie. One friday night at the 3 Counties 'social' night, she sat on my lap (big girl was Ellie) and tried to pour her half pint into my half pint glass (haven't got a clue why) from which I'd only taken a few sips; we both got a bit 'wet'!! Course her greyhound 'Twiggy' was running around eating anything edible and sniffing at the men's private parts as greyhounds do. |
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Post by PB on Oct 22, 2015 9:03:16 GMT
Chev, you're on the way to writing an erotic novel!
3 Counties 'nights' could lead to all manner of trouble. Turns out I was lucky to not give a charming lady reporter a lift home after one such evening as I only had a moped in those ancient days...involved story.
You obviously had a good relationship with Ellie's hound, I once knew a Red Setter with a similar disposition. But, that's another tail....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 20:20:54 GMT
The Derek Barber mentioned above.... was he a keen birdwatcher? There was someone of that name very active in birding circles but he is now deceased. His grave is close to that of my wife.
Re: the glider accident. A friend of my late wife lost her son in a glider accident at Farnborough. Don't know if it was the same person.
I presume you knew "Mac" and Pat McCarthy who ran a club from a caravan which was parked close to where the new Aerobility hangar is. I think their Cessna was G-ASLB?
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Post by chevvron on Nov 17, 2015 0:11:37 GMT
The Derek Barber mentioned above.... was he a keen birdwatcher? There was someone of that name very active in birding circles but he is now deceased. His grave is close to that of my wife. Re: the glider accident. A friend of my late wife lost her son in a glider accident at Farnborough. Don't know if it was the same person. I presume you knew "Mac" and Pat McCarthy who ran a club from a caravan which was parked close to where the new Aerobility hangar is. I think their Cessna was G-ASLB? The glider accident I was involved with at Farnborough did not involve a fatality; the glider pilot did an 'Irvin' letdown. We were fortunate to have the ambulance service still available as civil airfields are not 'required' to have one but we were still operating under MOD regs. It was only by the pilot getting hysterical in the ambulance that we found out there had been a mid-air as no one on the ground either in the tower or at the launch point had seen it. I don't know of any fatals involving gliders at Farnborough whilst I was there ('74 to when the club moved to Odiham which must have been about '98) |
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