Lovely image Chris... at first I thought that fire wagon was attacking the
ME-109(?)
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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