Bob (and others)
Sorry, that was a single image outside SmugMug, which is not what I intended.
Here is a link to the gallery:
http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/13807540_dz53NK
The images I mean are at the end.
Chris
On 5 Jul 2012, at 17:38, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Nice one. Did you get closer?
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> I was on the phone trying to get a network problem sorted out when I saw
>> this lovely old beast through the window that overlooks the airfield, at
>> work.
>>
>> <http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/i-T9HWmKn/0/L/D2012CB2277-ME109-L.jpg>
>>
>> The pilot, one Cliff Spink, was on his way from Duxford (Cambridgeshire) to
>> Humberside (further north, near Yorkshire) when the cowling on one side of
>> the engine started to come adrift. He landed at my airfield, Wyton (also in
>> Cambridgeshire) to sort it out. My telephone interlocutor allowed me to
>> leave him hanging on the line while I ran out to catch a couple of images of
>> the old "enemy" :-)
>>
>> The aircraft's owner is one Richard Lake, MD Eastern Airways, who also owns
>> a rather nice Spitfire. Cliff is an ex-RAF 2 star (Air Vice Marshal) who
>> displays both WWII aircraft.
>
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