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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Vintage Visitor
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:45:15 +0100
I'd never heard of the the company until today!

Chris

On 5 Jul 2012, at 21:12, Jez Cunningham wrote:

> Thanks to Eastern Airways we continue to have a direct flight Brussels
> to Southampton. On a slightly larger and more recent aircraft...
> Jez
> 
> On 05/07/2012, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>> 
>> Chris
> 

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