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. 8)

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.

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

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!

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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...

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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.

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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.