On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:49:40AM +1000, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote: > First actual air show I went to was at Biggin Hill: the sight of Spitfires > coming up out of the valley in a low pass was > something else!
Biggin Hill was about 10 miles from where I grew up; we were almost due east of the airfield (over mostly open country), so whenever Biggin Hill had an airshow there was a good chance we'd see interesting aircraft flying overhead. A friend of mine flew out of Biggin Hill occasionally. He took me up a couple of times. The first time he (probably quite illegally) buzzed our house at a fairly low level. The second time we popped across the channel to Le Touquet for lunch. That was an interesting flight; on the way back the fuel gauge suddenly dropped to zero halfway across the channel. Not only that - the radio cut out, too, which made it rather tricky to talk to the control tower at Lydd. Fortunately the problem was a part of the wiring harness coming loose; it took a technician at Lydd only a few minutes to find and fix the problem. Or course without a radio it was a little awkward getting permission to land ... -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
