Following on from the Corsair our presentation of the P-40 C
[slideshow_deploy id=’15701′]The P-40 C is planned to be displaying at Flying Legends 2016 – there is still time to book your tickets online HERE
News from Hangar Number 2
Following on from the Corsair our presentation of the P-40 C
[slideshow_deploy id=’15701′]The P-40 C is planned to be displaying at Flying Legends 2016 – there is still time to book your tickets online HERE
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The Corsair is planned to be displaying at Flying Legends 2016 – there is still time to book your tickets online HERE
First job was pulling what was needed out of the hangar, before getting fuel for what needed it. Patrice arrived in something that the Wildcat would probably want a word with, and Brian Smith had a quick blast in the Mustang just in case the Wildcat didn’t have a firm enough word with the Zero.
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.
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
Our photographer sent these through last night, as he is a photographer he doesn’t do writing so we will have to guess what was going on.
First off, Bob and Chris M. take a well earned rest having just enjoyed the best of French cuisine.
Next up Roy (you can never be too careful) Smith finishes re-arming EP120, “just in case”.
Ah,the Flying bit, Nick in the Mk Vb….
…and Patrice in the Hawk 75
Finally Nick with possibly the best seat at the display.
We may have more tonight!
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 .
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.
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.
Our colonial engineer Lawrence was up in Miss Velma recently with his old super 8 cine camera. We put the results on our Facebook page but if you don’t do Facebook here is the video: