The strange blue & white "biplane" is a Robin (CEA DR220) standing in front of a Piper Cub. Sussex Pad Hotel in the backgound with Lancing College chapel in the distance.
The Sussex Pad Hotel across the busy A27 bypass. The traffic is usually nose to tail & a lot different to how it was back in the Sixties. I got this shot in a quiet period when the traffic lights changed to red.
A better view of the Robin. The original RAF blister hangar I worked in is on the left. The extension was added much later. It always looked ugly to me & I never understood why they didn't match the original structure. One of the old characters on the airport once rode a bike along the blister hangar roof for a bet. I never figured out how they got the bike up there. He apparently won the bet.
A little home-built biplane. Anyone know what this is?
Started first time. These chaps know their stuff.
I found these hiding in the hangar. The Miles Gemini was a common sight in the Sixties. Douglas Bader often visited in the company Gemini when he worked for Shell. At least 4 were based at Shoreham but they're very rare nowadays.
Another Cub. This time the cropped wing version. Ain't she cute?
Oh, did I forget to mention that Brighton is now a city? This is the beginning of the end to my way of thinking.
