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<blockquote data-quote="Kentbloke" data-source="post: 2845398" data-attributes="member: 25905"><p>I'm a fan of both and have been since I was a kid. </p><p></p><p>Living quite near RAF Biggin Hill as a kid and went to my first airshow there in 1963. Me and a cheeky chum skipped school and went to BH and almost got a flight in this Lancaster <a href="http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/history/history-of-the-lancaster.htm" target="_blank"><strong>NX611</strong></a> that had landed there en-route from Australia in 1965, but an engine fire stopped that so we had to make do with with sitting in the cockpit - wow indeed! </p><p></p><p>I managed to sit in the prototype Mosquito <a href="http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/404/404633.jpg" target="_blank"><strong>W4050</strong></a> when the Salisbury Hall museum first opened, that made quite an impression on this schoolboy let me tell you :king:</p><p></p><p>The culmination for me happened a few weeks ago when for my 60's birthday treat <em>(delayed from last year)</em> I flew in a helicopter with this <a href="http://www.historicaircraftcollection.ltd.uk/images/hac_spitfire_310511.jpg" target="_blank"><strong>MkVb</strong></a> Spitfire that accompanied us for 20 minutes, as we flew over the white cliffs of Dover - quite sublime :smoke:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kentbloke, post: 2845398, member: 25905"] I'm a fan of both and have been since I was a kid. Living quite near RAF Biggin Hill as a kid and went to my first airshow there in 1963. Me and a cheeky chum skipped school and went to BH and almost got a flight in this Lancaster [URL="http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/history/history-of-the-lancaster.htm"][B]NX611[/B][/URL] that had landed there en-route from Australia in 1965, but an engine fire stopped that so we had to make do with with sitting in the cockpit - wow indeed! I managed to sit in the prototype Mosquito [URL="http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/404/404633.jpg"][B]W4050[/B][/URL] when the Salisbury Hall museum first opened, that made quite an impression on this schoolboy let me tell you :king: The culmination for me happened a few weeks ago when for my 60's birthday treat [I](delayed from last year)[/I] I flew in a helicopter with this [URL="http://www.historicaircraftcollection.ltd.uk/images/hac_spitfire_310511.jpg"][B]MkVb[/B][/URL] Spitfire that accompanied us for 20 minutes, as we flew over the white cliffs of Dover - quite sublime :smoke: [/QUOTE]
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