PhantomTweak wrote:I still think the pilot in photo #10, G-ARRT, bears more than a passing resembelance to Paul's Avatar....
Pat☺
Hagar wrote:PhantomTweak wrote:I still think the pilot in photo #10, G-ARRT, bears more than a passing resemblance to Paul's Avatar....
Pat?
That gentleman was the late Wing Commander Ken Wallis. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10286869/Wing-Commander-Kenneth-Wallis.html
EricL wrote:I wonder if we met or worked together at The Southern Aero Club. I left to join the Army in 1965
Pash was still instructing at that time, with a little help and guidance from his wife Vera
Happy but hard days during the summer months but I got my PPL.
expat wrote:Nice collection of pictures Doug, however the Reid & Sigrist Desford.............that is so ugly, I am not even sure its own mother could love it.....
Matt
Hagar wrote:expat wrote:Nice collection of pictures Doug, however the Reid & Sigrist Desford.............that is so ugly, I am not even sure its own mother could love it.....
Matt
Thanks Matt. The Desford didn't look too bad until they messed around with it. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/R.S.3.jpg
Still better looking than its big sister, the prone pilot Meteor --> http://q-zon-fighterplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Meteor-F8-Prone-Pilot.jpg
EricL wrote:I wonder if we met or worked together at The Southern Aero Club. I left to join the Army in 1965
Pash was still instructing at that time, with a little help and guidance from his wife Vera
Happy but hard days during the summer months but I got my PPL.
EricL wrote:EricL wrote:I wonder if we met or worked together at The Southern Aero Club. I left to join the Army in 1965
Pash was still instructing at that time, with a little help and guidance from his wife Vera
Happy but hard days during the summer months but I got my PPL.
Did you own at that time a motor bike? I think ir was a Tiger Cub possibly.
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