SevenSeas
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Reged: 04/07/2008
Posts: 1
Loc: West Sussex UK
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Walking to school one day in 1952 something small and silver whistled overhead and my mate said “Republic F84E Thunderjet”. Asked how he knew he produced a copy of “The Observers Book of Aircraft” and showed me the correct page. I knew then that I had to have a copy and was soon cycling from my home in Canterbury to sit at the end of the runway at RAF Manston with my new “bible”. Post war Britain was an austere place and to a twelve year old watching fighters with names like Shooting Star and Sabre was pure heaven.
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groundcrew
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Reged: 03/04/2008
Posts: 4
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I do not know when Battle of Britain open days started but I am sure I was at the first one at RAF Acklington!Remember lots of camo bombers and fighters and riding on bomb trolleys made like a train!Later there where meteors and vampires going to the firing range offshore.Remember seeing a Sunderland flying over one day1I used to get copies of the wartime "recognition"books of the day,wish I had kept them!
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sparky
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Reged: 09/10/2008
Posts: 2
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Yes, I remember the aircraft recognition books, my favourite was "Spot Them in The Air". During the early days of the war, my father trained as a spotter for the Grimsby Docks. The idea being that during an air raid, work can carry on and anything suspicious seen by the spotters would cause an alarm bell to be rung and all workers proceed to the shelters. When my father was training, I used to go with him and they let me join in. When the exams came,
"Just for fun" they said I could sit in! I came first!!!
Ken
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Dom
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Reged: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2
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I went to the Farnborough airshow when i was 3. Loved the planes then, but not in a big way. Then in school i read a book about a WW1 fighter ace. My interest grew and now im into everything about WW1 WW2 planes of both periods and planes since then. Because of my age (13) i cannot drive to airshows or anything, nor do i have any other means of travelling to airshows.
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