G-OMER Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Hi, Just joined Cheers Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Everyone has to start there. Welcome. Gary Nev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskpilot Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 G-omer, great to meet someone from my old hunting ground. I was stationed at Coltishall and worked part time on the Broads. Where do you fly from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Gary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Welcome Gary, brings back a few memories for me also. As an RAF Cadet I was lucky to be in the co-pilots seat of an Avro Anson doing low flying along the Norfolk Broads around 1954. We flew out from East Derham. Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-OMER Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hi, I fly from Felthorpe next to Norwich airport, Guernsey, the airfield is still there Shipdam "8 ball", I'm also a member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive J Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Coltishall closed a few years ago and sits idle. The barracks have been turned into a Prison. The broads are as lovely as ever, Regards Clive (also at Felthorpe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_S Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hi, Just joinedCheers Gary Hi Gary, I was at East Anglia University in the early 1970s, and was at the Halls of Residence at Fifer's Lane just by the airfield! Wow - takes me back! I remember many times going into Norwich for a few bevvies....(don't remember getting back ....) Moved out to Aus about 14 years ago now and learnt to fly here. Good to hear you are flying there in sunny Blighty! Cheers Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Welcome Gary, brings back a few memories for me also. As an RAF Cadet I was lucky to be in the co-pilots seat of an Avro Anson doing low flying along the Norfolk Broads around 1954. We flew out from East Derham.Alan. Welcome ftom me, also, Gary. I am sure you will enjoy the often robust discussions here and hopefully will be a regular cntributor to our collective knowledge. Hey Alan, I guess you know about the Avro Ansons that collided and remained stuck together at Brocklesby near Albury and were landed by the sole remaining pilot on board after everyone else bailed out? An engine from one is mounted outside the RSL at Brock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_S Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Welcome ftom me, also, Gary. I am sure you will enjoy the often robust discussions here and hopefully will be a regular cntributor to our collective knowledge.Hey Alan, I guess you know about the Avro Ansons that collided and remained stuck together at Brocklesby near Albury and were landed by the sole remaining pilot on board after everyone else bailed out? An engine from one is mounted outside the RSL at Brock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision kaz Hi Kaz, I had not seen that story about the colliding Ansons before - absolutely amazing! And ironic that they survived something freaky like that and then died in stupidly mundane circumstances later... My favourite bit "As far as Fuller was concerned, the touchdown was better than any he had made when practising 'circuits and bumps' at Forest Hill airfield the previous day". LOL Cheers Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Welcome ftom me, also, Gary. I am sure you will enjoy the often robust discussions here and hopefully will be a regular cntributor to our collective knowledge.Hey Alan, I guess you know about the Avro Ansons that collided and remained stuck together at Brocklesby near Albury and were landed by the sole remaining pilot on board after everyone else bailed out? An engine from one is mounted outside the RSL at Brock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision kaz Hi Kaz, Yes I know of that incident and apparently the same thing happened to two Ansons at the Mallala airfield in SA many years ago but I believe there were no survivors from that one. As a keen aircraft spotter during my childhood and teenage years many civilian Ansons flew passengers into Guernsey from the UK the two main airlines being Morton Air Services and Olley Air Services based in Croydon. We also had DC3s, Airspeed Oxfords, DH Rapides, DH Doves and Herrons. have flown in most of them. Old Codger Alan. Thanks for the memories. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Hi Kaz,I had not seen that story about the colliding Ansons before - absolutely amazing! And ironic that they survived something freaky like that and then died in stupidly mundane circumstances later... My favourite bit "As far as Fuller was concerned, the touchdown was better than any he had made when practising 'circuits and bumps' at Forest Hill airfield the previous day". LOL Cheers Neil The locals at Brock say he was actually censured for not following standing orders to abandon his disabled ship and that the official line was he shouldn't have stayed with it. Seems harsh but I can understand that the junior service may have adopted that view of the world. kaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Greetings G-Omer. Trust you'll find this site an ongoing source of interest, information and sometimes spirited debate on all aspects of aviation. Like others, I too have old familiarities with Norfolk . Never flew anything during my three years in Gt Yarmouth but spent many hours in Bristow's old Wessex choppers going to work from Caister in the early seventies. Welcome to the forums. Cheers Riley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Well G-OMER and RILEY you have started something now. Great Yarmouth, now there's a memory. Whilst in the Air Cadets at East Derham for a week I flew three times in a Percival Prentice, including loops ( over three hours in total ), and did my one hour low flying over the Norfolk Broads in the Anson. On the Saturday we were all taken to Great Yarmouth to practice ditching recoveries in the outdoor Great Yarmouth swimming pool, however, because it was such a beautiful day our NCO's gave us the day off instead to do whatever we liked....guess what I did....I thumbed a lift to the local airfield and spent all I had left of my pocket money to do a joy flight around Great Yarmouth in an Auster. The enthusiasm of youth. Alan Marriette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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