At 1300hrs today a biplane flew over Bridgwater, low enough to see the shape but too high to see any details. I'm fairly sure it wasn't a Tiger Moth or similar and to me it sounded like a rotary engine. My immediate thought was that it looked like a 504....
My eyesight is failing so if anyone knows what it was, or knows of vintage flights over the area today, then I'm more than happy to be corrected
ATB,
Derek
'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
That would probably be the Somerset Air Force counter insurgency aircraft mate. Arrows just stick in the side and (importantly) don't bounce back to give the insurgents a second shot On 'snagging' an arrow, one of the crew will note the position then release a homing pideon wearing body armour to fly it back to base. The local 'Junta' will then locate the insurgents and chase them back up into the hils. Works every time
Now.. should I have taken that many pills. Can't read the instructions
On a serious note.. Martin might know. He potters around that neck of the woods
ATB
Actually the Somerset Air Force have state-of-the-art anti-arrow nets slung beneath the aircraft
Still flummoxed on this one, I've been googling but haven't found much. The only thing that came up was a Shuttleworth evening display at Old Warden today
It may have to remain a mystery....
Derek
'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
