YOUR photos & comments

[poswolf]

good morning Peter
Do you have a pic of one of the oddest looking machines to visit the Bushe (in June 98) OE9328 the brditschka scanliner ? That name looks like a typo but I think its right !

[PB]

Hello Poswolf.

The answer to your question is ,"No, 'fraid not"....Maybe somebody else has? New one on me Sir!

P

[poswolf]

That is a pity, all I have are slides taken way over in the parking area with (I think) a 2x converter on my 200mm lens. These were adequate for the record but I hoped you would have much better pix up to your usual standard. Perhaps Mr Controller or Mt Globaljet can help ? I had a horrid fear of what might happen if I asked if I could go out and pic it properly. Actually I tried at a later date for a Sperling and Reg could not have been nicer.Roger would probably have come out with me !

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Piccy here, courtesy of AB Pics:


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[poswolf]

Thanks, great shot but not at the Bushe of course. What a wierd thing. One dreads to think what else the designer got round to ! Or hopefully someone hid his pencil.

[chevvron]

Feb 12, 2015 14:41:33 GMT a30yoyo said:

Doug Arnold beat up Heathrow in the Mosquito 28NOV79 on the way to Blackbushe from the USA....I had just packed up photographing airliners near Myrtle Avenue and had started walking back to my mother's house in Heston when the Mosquito shot across the A30 towards 28L

I'm a bit dubious about DA actually being in that Mosquito.  I got into it when it was in the hangar at Bovingdon in 1966 and even my 144lb body (I was a reasonably fit 17 year old then) found it a squeeze as the entry hatch is less than 2 ft square.

[rj]

Hi guys I though I would share some photos I acquired from the 60's and 70's that I have in the collection. Although I didn't make the 1960's in my childhood on the 70's Blackbushe was such an exciting place. Living in Reading we were often treated warbirds transiting the area and most decent weather weekends would see a trip to the bushe to see what had made it out of the impregnable hangars. To those of us in the spotting rabble Doug Arnold was a fearsome charterer not to be met at any cost near the hangars! Anyway on with the photos, no idea of the dates.
USAF CH-53, presumably visiting on a Farnborough week in the early 1970's?



Of course the 70's also meant Islanders, this is a early example G-AYAY, this example was delivered to Australia in December 1970

D-BABI VFW614 on demo flights during the 70's


some Sundays were drag racing days with the airport closed, but always a interesting backdrop

by the late 70's the lock up hangars were more lock down hangars. I vividly remember seeing a couple of Canberra B2 noses outside these one day, never saw them again.

An interesting view c1968 (G-ATTY based 66-71 is newest aircraft)


Does anybody know the story behind the Dragonflys? Who did they belong to and what were the plans initially for them? I can't see any civilian market for them as they were noisey, the early ones were under-powered and maintenance intensive?

Rob

[Jeff]

Found this on Ebay earlier while looking for something totally different, sorry its not an aircraft though

[Deleted]

I worked For BCA between 2007 - 2010, my office was next door to the then premiair facility, being aviation minded I always took my camera into work, i hope to post some of the interesting movements that went through premiair, as well as the residents of the airfield in the same period, just uploading the photos to FLICKR so i can put them on here....

Cheers

Adrian

[flyboy]

adriancitation01,

That's great news Adrian much look forward to seeing them.