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1962
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FLIGHT International, 4 October 1962 567 Seen at Shoreham on September 22 (see report last week): right, Sheila Scott's Cessna 175 and G. P. Watson's Proctor 3; below, the Sopwith Pup and Vickers Armstrongs' Spitfire, both flown by Dave Morgan Morgan in Vickers' Spitfire 5. These three stole the show from a Skeeter, a Morava twin and an Airedale, though the latter, exercised with abandon, extracted some complimentary remarks from Sqn Ldr Hindmarsh's authoritative commentary. American light aeroplanes are rather scorned by those at Elstree, who claim to prefer strong British (sic) ones, such as the Chipmunk, which the instructors tirelessly fly in formation. The impression is left that here is a club which regrets that aeroplanes ever wear out; and old and rare vintages are enormously loved. So the Hart, and Simpson's handling of it, were a great success, for the airframe is immaculate, and, de-rated to + llb/sq in boost, the Kestrel should now last for years after its blow-up of a couple of years ago. Perhaps the mums and small boys were most thrilled with the delayed drops of four members of the British Parachute Association, but for others in the surprisingly big crowd the Hart, Spitfire and Meteor were an evocative trio. Particularly the Spitfire; maintained in squadron colours, the 5B is the best remembered of all. The throaty song of its Merlin lingered on when the purr of the departing Metasokol, Emeraudes and Bolkow 107 had gone. SPORT AND BUS NESS Elstree's "At Home" What is different about events at Elstree is the emphasis placed on vintage aircraft. At what other airfield would a display be opened with a fly-past from a 24-year-old Anson Mk 1, proudly presented as a splendid workaday aircraft to have around ? (At what other airfield could a display be opened by an Anson 1 still in commercial service? One experienced pilot remarked that it was the first Anson demonstration he had ever seen, and he supposed that this was because he was too young to remember it as display-worthy.) Not that the public taste for formation aerobatics by RAF jets was forgotten at the September 22 event; the club simply conducted this part of a highly varied programme by introducing three Meteors. They came from the RAF Flying College at Manby, and very tight formations they flew. They added surprisingly to the nostalgia engendered by G-EBLV, de Havilland's Cirrus Moth, on this occasion flown by Donald Penrose, Hawker's Hart flown by Duncan Simpson, and a performance of exquisite polish by Dave Munich Rally The prospect of Bavarian hospitality attracted no less than 83 aircraft to the third international Oktoberfest rally of the Munich Flying Clubs on September 22-23. No less than 29 of these machines came from France (in the wake of General de Gaulle), eleven were British, four Swiss and one Swedish. The remaining 38 originated from German clubs. Prizes for the longest distance flown and for the pilot with the most recent PPL went to E. Morris and David McAdlington respectively, both from Chesterfield and both members of the same Tri-Pacsr crew. Oldest aircraft to muster was D-ED1H, Carl Mayerhofer's 1938 Messerschmitt Me.108. Entertainment was on a friendly and lavish scale, members of the club being personally responsible for individual crews during the two days. For those who could withstand the pace, Munich Gliding Club also was celebrating the tenth anniversary of the revival of gliding in Western Germany, so there was a good deal of to-ing and fro-ing between the two club-houses which are situated on the old Munich Municipal airfield at Oberweisenfeld. This historic aero drome, one of the first in Germany and scene of BMW test-flying during the last war, is shortly to suffer the fate of Croydon, and will be sold as building land. These Piper PA-(8s equipped with Sorensen spray gear were recently re assembled at Panshanger prior to being ferried to Khartoum. They belong to Aerospray (Cyprus) Ltd and are no,v cotton-spraying in the Sudan
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