Today was action packed with several Harvard flights, along with practice displays from Alan Wade in the Corsair and Brian Smith in the Hawk 75.
Category: TFC
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Corsair, Harvard and Hawk action
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La Ferte Alais
Harry was sent to record TFC at LaFerte this year. His report is short on the written word due to a strange encounter with French hospitality, this is what he remembers:
TFC’s deployment to La Ferte Alais this year consisted of the MkVB Spitfire and the Hawk 75, arriving in the safe hands of Nick Grey and Patrice Marchasson respectively, with the Spitfire following the Hawk by a couple of days.
Fridays practice had to be scrubbed thanks to being caught out by heavy rain shower (with a bit of hail thrown in for good measure – they could have stayedin England if they wanted that sort of weather!) this all rolled in whilst waiting for an impressive practice by the Aeronavale Rafales to finish.
After a few minutes hoping for it to pass (with Nick and Patrice strapped in, and everyone else sheltering under the wings) the decision was made to get the aircraft back into the hangar ASAP, which is easier said than done when there is no tow bar for the Spitfire (Roy, take note)! I think we must have nearly set a record for the fastest a Spitfire has ever been pushed away, with no less than 17 people pushing, and Nick Grey leading the way!
Nick getting ready for his practice
Taking Shelter under the Hawk 75
Pushing the Spitfire in (thanks toNigel Hitchman)
The Spitfire safely returned to the hangar
On both the show days Nick Grey displayed the Spitfire alongside George Perez in the French Mustang, and Patrice flew a spirited display in the Hawk.
Stephen just checking all is OK, like Fathers do!
The arty pics
Patrice in the Hawk
Nick in EP120
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All Move
OK, our photographer said “I’ll get you the most amazing picture for the May desktop” What he didn’t say was he was going to La Ferte in the middle of May to catch the picture, calendar will be here next week…maybe!
In other news we have moved the Friends pages tonight, those you log in to view and the FofTFC shop, to a secure server. The old server could not cope with all our members logging in for our latest news! This s nearly complete and some pictures and “stuff” may not be quite where it should be. However the result should be faster access on both websites. If something doesn’t work please let us know. Operationally you may notice for some pages you are on foftfc.com and others fighter-collection.com .
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April Desktop
This months desktop is Nick Grey preparing to lead the Mustangs at last years Legends. A reminder it will soon be Legends 2016 – don’t forgot it is advance ticket only, click HERE to purchase your tickets from the Flying Legends website.
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March Desktop
Contrary to rumours that our photographer had forgotten it was March, the real reason we left it a few days was to leave the Spitfire picture up for the anniversary at the week end.
Anyway we continue with a brooding and reflective study of the brute that is Bearcat.
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February Desktop
We thought about it a while and then said yup. that is the one.
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January Desktop
We’re back! January desktop, on time almost.
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December Desktop Calendar
The final desktop calendar of 2015
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[wpdm_package id=’14950′]Don’t forget to order your FofTFC Christmas goodies. Last day we can accept orders for pre – Christmas dispatch is Saturday 12th December -click HERE to view our Christmas offers page.
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Christmas Offers
This years not to be missed Christmas Offers [product_category category=”christmas2015″] or why not buy a membership to Friends of TFC and gain an extra 10% discount!? More information just click HERE
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Fighter Log Autumn 2015 is now available
Update for Friends of TFC. You can now view the latest Fighter Log online.
OK, so this edition is a bit seasonal, well everyone else has decided Christmas starts in November so why not? Seriously if you want to order any Christmas Goodies now is the time.
Aeroplane wise Martin has provided us with a series of insights into the challenges of aircraft restoration and maintenance including the Gladiator, Spitfire mkVb, P-36, and Mustang.
Elsewhere in Fighter Log we have our annual Christmas video with a few highlights of TFC aircraft on the ground and in action 🙂 . Finally those Christmas offers. You will see the Friends Discount price automatically when you are logged in.
Separately, we are increasing the annual single subscription to £15 and the family subscription remains at £25. Current renewals will remain at £10 for the time being. The increase is to allow us to increase benefits to Friends, more news to follow. You can also read in Fighter Log how your support has helped purchase a tool cabinet from TENG TOOLS as an early Christmas present for use by the Fighter Collection volunteers.
(note: our current web server is being a bit temperamental at the moment, if you get an error when trying to view any of the pages just hit* F5 on the keyboard and the page should reload)
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