Now you're talking!
This is the T67C I flew back to Plymouth from Wombleton (North Yorks). ATC were asking "where"? all the way back!
It's been upgraded since, but the active at the time was a bit short, so run up required on exit.

Sadly G-BOXK is no longer with us, it crashed at a display and killed the pilot.



This was my favourite, T67M 200 military trainer, full aeros of course and variable pitch to play with. G-BNSR is still around, now canary yellow! It was a privilege to fly, very few being available to us mere mortals.

 

Hi,

you fellas are way above my league.


Heres me biggest one.

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Retractable undercarraig, flaps, bombs but I cannot sit in it.

Seems the plane theme has awoken a few secret pilots out there.

Cheers
Kev

 

i still think you need bb or even paintball guns on the wings kev, strafe through the workshop

 

Excellent idea!
And not at all Kev. Flying is easy when you're sat in it. Remote control is really tricky. The last time I tried it the cows trod on the starboard wing and that was the end of that!

 

That P40 is fabulous! I am a SERIOUS WW2 buff..

 

What's the cost theses days to get you're ppl
And what's the going rate for hire , Cessna 172 /182 type aircraft

 

Hi Alan,

now why does that not surprise me.

You are right about the difficultly in being a remote pilot, David, a retired partner in S/C, and ex pilot and flying instructor had a go with one of my planes, I got it nice and high, levelled out and passed him the handset, he turned left, nicely levelled and pulled up but now it was coming towards him, suddenly left was right and right was left, panic set in and before I had managed to reach for the transmitter the plane was heading full throttle, upside down towards the ground, not a lot left.

Must admit though I have hit every tree around here, both buildings and used to land in the wrong airport two fields away, at least now the landings are closer and the trees are safer, took me years though.

Cheers
kev

 

£Spleen, .5 of bladder and first born.

 

Somewhere in the region of £10k

I had 2hrs in a cessna tomahawk for £120 but it was a few years back.

It's real easy once your up, and take off is not too difficult once you get the hang of the foot controls, it took 3 attempts and the full length of the runway at donnigton to get it back down though, it was a tad windy, inside and out.

 

Just been looking at my logbook and I've got through a few T67s.
G-BLLV, T67C, de-registered now,
G-BONU, T67B, looking a bit sorry for itself;

G-BLTU, T67B, met its end upside down in a field;

G-BLPI T67B which we still have;

and T67M G-BKAM, complete with wobbly prop.

 

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Whilst I'm all for the planes Etc... Nothing's better than having a 90 size heli hovering upside down I front of you!

 

Hi,

tried hard with them things, couldn’t get to grips with them at all.

I found it akin to balancing a ball bearing on the sharp edge of a razor blade whilst standing on one leg.

Hence I have a few copters for sale.

On one of our summer open days a guy brought his large nitro helicopter to show us, and boy could this guy fly, he literally was trimming the grass in front of us with the thing upside down, he must have had 3 brains.

2nd flight though the thing sounded wrong, vibrating away he tried to bring it in, it went out of control and embedded itself in the side of our building, a couple of blades are still there now, shows how dangerous both model planes and helicopters can be.

Off to try some night flying, now where’s those led's ?

cheers
Kev

 

Blimey, we've flown the same aircraft! Just one of them.
This is my list in order of date;
T67B
G-BLTW
G-BLLP
G-BLTT
G-BLLV - Flown on 27/3/89!
G-BLRG
G-BLLR
T67C
G-BOXK
T67M200
G-BNSR

 

Small world! I was flying LV in 1998 when it was at Pathfinder flying club, RAF Wyton. Not sure how we came by it, guess it was leased? Some of the others we inherited from Laarbruch when it closed. It's been a while, but I seem to remember it being nice to fly.

This is the plane I've flown furthest in, G-FTIL, a Robin DR400 190hp. This was three of us flying up the West coast of Norway to get into the Arctic circle and eventually getting to Tromso and then to North Cape.

In our survival suits at Sogndal:



At 10k above the Glaciers:



Coming into Svolvær:

 

Hey, what a great adventure! love that approach in the last pic.
One of my little pastimes was spot landing, I'd go round all day doing that. I always had fantasies of carrier decks, thankfully not acted upon!

 

Bugger!!, I would have trouble landing me litle WOT 4 on that strip.

Great photo.

cheers
Kev

 

I saw the local air club doing that once when we landed in Majorca. Looked hard on the landing gear!

And the runway was bigger than it appears there Kev. Clacton is more of a challenge tbh.

We had to declare a pan coming out of Riga as we had alternator failure and it wouldn't recycle. As a result we had an Easyjet and a Lufthansa held above us while we pottered in to be greeted by:



I think they must have been bored! I nearly burst out laughing when the bus turned up, there was only two of us in it at that point.

 

I was lucky enough to have never had any actual problems with the aircraft, although my shockingly bad navigation had me in trouble a few times!
I was once "temporarily uncertain of position" whilst looking for Compton Abbas, a sneakily located grass strip near the South Coast. I knew roughly where I was, but I didn't know where they were, so ended up meeting a Piper Cub over Dorchester and followed him back. For some reason they wouldn't accept that as being good enough for a qualifying cross country signature!
It's fair to say that I should have had an old biplane, then I could have landed anywhere and read road signs. No GPS back then matey..

 

Is Compton Abbas on a hill? I think I've been there. Our standard QXC is Wyton-Turweston-Gamston-Wyton. Might have been the last time I didn't take my GPS (only because I wasn't allowed). I sometimes give D&D a bit of practice if I'm bored on 121.5. I always thought if I got genuinely lost (ie all the gps pack up) I might try a quick 'practice pan' with them.