"Hey, Dad, when I grow up...

[Garry Russell]

I can't tie it specifically on web reseach.tonight at least.......except WZ744 was the only 707C differning by having that intake arrangement and was Farnborough based then.

Went to the museum in 67 so that would appear to be the one.

Garry

[PeteP]

Have you got the reg logged Pete??

Sorry, Alex and Dave, most of the slides are meticulously annotated with date, place and aircraft details but, unfortunately, this one is not.
PP

[Trev Clark]

Thats me (aged 4 and a half) and possibly the same 707 at Tangmere in 1963!

I posted this years ago here, so apologies to older members ;-)

[PeteP]

And here's WZ744 parked at Tangmere as a participant in the 1963 Battle of Britain "At Home" day.


Photo copyright John Newman via Clint Gurry.

PP

[PeteP]

The Cosford 707C is WZ744 and the one in the shot certainly looks like it. Have you got the reg logged Pete??

Dave/Alex, disregard my last about this slide not being indexed. If I'd looked properly in the slide box, I'd have seen a typed list of all the slides! STUPID

This one is listed as "Avro 707C, WZ744" so I can confirm it is the one that's now at Cosford.
Pete

[Trev Clark]

Wow that 707 shot is great, I was taken to the back access road (past where I would buy my first house in the village of Oving ) by my father, who took the picture on arrivals day, somewhere I have a few more including a french Mystere. This road ended in a crash gate and I spent many a happy hour in this area watching the gradually diminishing ops from this great airfield. If you look closely you can see that it is indeed 744.

This picture below, (apologies for posting it yet again ) was taken on board a 115 sqn Varsity at the same show as the 707 picture, the 1963 B of B day. I think that weekend started my whole fascination with all things flying! I wonder if anyone has an external shot of the Varsity on this day?

[PeteP]

I wonder if anyone has an external shot of the Varsity on this day?

Hmmm... I wonder if anyone has. ;-) Don't suppose it was this one was it?


Photo copyright John Newman via Clint Gurry

This and the 707 photo were part of a set of the participants I've collected to illustrate a proposed article for 'Talking Tangmere' (now renamed 'Tangmere Logbook' for the next edition, incidentally) on the last air display at Tangmere. I never got around to the article but I still have all the photos - I can e-mail them to you if you'd like to see them.

I was also there in 1963 but had no camera that day. A friend and I put our bikes in the guard's van on the train from Portsmouth and then cycled to the airfield from Chichester station.
PP

[Filonian]

"I told you to come into the hangar when it started raining!!"

Graham

[Trev Clark]

Thats brilliant Pete! I would love a copy if you can e-mail me sometime!
I have some more shots here in Spain, but a large photo (which used to be behind the link trainer a couple of years ago) was taken that weekend by my father of a line of Varsities and a Whirlwind. Not sure if it is there now.