End of season fly-in

[Hagar]

Ah well, it's almost over for another year so you won't have to put up with my photos for much longer. After several days of rotten weather I was pleasantly surprised to wake up to a beautiful sunny morning so I popped along to Popham for the last fly-in of the season. Here's a few of my better shots.

First some of the Moth family. Not one but two Moth Majors.



The Tiger Moth that was directly decended from it.


Now for the Austers. Three examples of the Aiglet trainer. G-AMMS was a familiar sight at the Farnborough Air Show in the old days, famously displayed by Auster's chief test pilot the late Ranald Porteous, the inventor of the Porteous loop.




Auster D5 Husky. Quite a rare sight now. I don't think many of these were built.


Beagle-Auster Terrier. We had one of the first examples at the flying club when I worked there. I think this is a Terrier 1 which was impossible to land on three points. Ours was replaced with a Terrier 2 after the chief flying instructor complained bitterly about it & asked for his money back. They fixed it by almost doubling the area of the elevators. I much preferred our Tiger Moths.


I'm so glad I went. The lovely weather encouraged a record number of aircraft to turn up & they almost ran out of parking spaces. A really wonderful day out.

[Craig.]

beautiful shots Doug. Glad you went along. Now for the long winter lacking of shows. Thanks for all your efforts this year, i know theres still duxford to go so looking forward to that at least.

[ATI_7500]

Doug, ever fancied to learn FSDS or Gmax? With all those beautiful reference pics you could build a whole fleet of good looking (except those Moths) early english aeroplanes.

[Hagar]

Doug, ever fancied to learn FSDS or Gmax? With all those beautiful reference pics you could build a whole fleet of good looking (except those Moths) early english aeroplanes.

Hmmm. I already do a bit with FSDS2 or, more correctly, I did. Check out the Fox Four site some time.

I also created some AI only versions of the Auster, Tiger Moth, Miles Messenger & Gemini for FS2002 then went & lost the lost when my HD fried. I didnt take my own advice to back up. I lost my enthusiasm at that point & haven't done anything since.

[ATI_7500]

I also created some AI only versions of the Auster, Tiger Moth, Miles Messenger & Gemini for FS2002 then went & lost the lost when my HD fried.

Ouch. And the FS world greatly lacks some proper gras-strip AI...
Sad to hear.

[61_OTU]

Great shots Doug, as ever.

See you Sunday at Duxford, however it doesn't look like my new Fuji will be here in time

Have to struggle on with my mju!

Steve

[C]

Very nice Doug! Slightly off the point, I found out why the Wicko had escaped us until last month. Before the beginning of September it hadn't flown for 40 years or so!

[Hagar]

Very nice Doug! Slightly off the point, I found out why the Wicko had escaped us until last month. Before the beginning of September it hadn't flown for 40 years or so!

Thanks Charlie although I already knew that.

61_OTU wrote: [quote]See you Sunday at Duxford, however it doesn't look like my new Fuji will be here in time

[C]

Thanks Charlie although I already knew that.

Thought you probably would have done - I've just seen it in the other thread! Its strange looking back through all the old Aeroplane (Monthly)s and seeing it as a skeleton back in 2000... Time flies...

[61_OTU]

It's an Olympus mju 300. 3MP, 4x optical, weatherproof........all in all I'm very pleased with it, however if your subject is not large and static it can struggle. You have to work against what the auto program wants to do.

Still, never know. Fuji/Dabs may pull one out of the hat!

Shackleton at noon sounds good, see you there all things being equal

[Hagar]

It's an Olympus mju 300. 3MP, 4x optical, weatherproof........all in all I'm very pleased with it, however if your subject is not large and static it can struggle. You have to work against what the auto program wants to do.

Still, never know. Fuji/Dabs may pull one out of the hat!

Don't give up hope. There's time yet. That Olympus has a far higher spec than my F401 & I used that for aerial shots for 1 year before getting the new one which is basically the same but with a 10x zoom lens. I posted many of them here & everyone seemed to like them just as much as the ones I post now.

Shackleton at noon sounds good, see you there all things being equal

OK then. Keep your fingers crossed. I'll be there at the stated time & hang around for 15 minutes. If you don't like the look of me I won't be offended.

[ozzy72]

Proper planes eh Doug?