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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Vintage Visitor
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:38:28 -0400
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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