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Issue issue 76 77 march june 2013 2013

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Editorial Cover image “DC - 4”

by Derek Lomas

Being a society rather than a guild our membership has varying levels of skill. This is often shown when sketching in the museum, and the portraiture evening was was no exception. Even talented artists found it difficult to go from hard surfaces to soft. Perhaps we should have the face as a sculpture evening.

The Jim MacKendrick Trophy is again featured with another of his paintings revealed.

We look forward to featuring all entries in the next issue and online.

Veteran member Derek Lomas is one of our featured artists. I own the painting on the back cover and while editing the magazine I have found the cover image growing on me more each day,

Dave Rear Cover Image “S211 Trainer”

By Derek Lomas

If any member has an objection to the Society holding Membership records on a computer and using the information for society purposes deemed suitable by the Committee, eg; the production and distribution of a membership list, please notify the Editor

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Contents Veteran member Derek Lomas looks back

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March meeting - A.G.M.

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Roger Markman loses his tonsils and gains a Comet

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April Meeting - portraiture

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Ron Sargeant champions traditional art

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More about Jim Mackendrick

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A Grand Day Out

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Meet Roger Rumbold

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Aviation Nose Art

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Roger Reviews “Empire of the Clouds�

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News Round

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Diary Dates - keep up to date

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Artist members who are unable, for whatever reason, to deliver their entries to competition meetings can have a maximum of two works included in the MAvAS website Gallery.

These works will not be included in the competition, nor will they appear on the Museum display panel, but the usual details of title, medium, artist and price must be supplied to Editor, Dave Bates.

In addition, Dave will require good quality photographs or digital images of the work in question, i.e., sharp, having accurate colour, no frame showing and without any reflections or shadows. Images that fall short of these standards will be rejected. Digitals need to be sized 4.5ins wide, height to suit and 200dpi.

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Memories. My earliest aviation recollection is seeing the R 100 airship when it flew over Manchester in 1930 when our neighbour shouted us to come quickly. I was only four at the time but the size was most impressive. At the time we lived on the borders of Swinton and Monton, a not too distant ride from Barton airfield, which my Dad and I visited on the odd time before the war. At times we saw the DH 86 of Railway Air Services as it landed on it's way to the IOM. Then we went over to Barton locks to watch the cargo boats coming and going on the Manchester Ship Canal. On one occasion I remember seeing a guy try to get airborne in his Flying Flea but he only managed to end up side down from 30ft or so. He wasn't hurt at all but the plane wasn't OK! My neighbour and I cycled to Barton on the day war was declared but the only memory I have of that ride was of an RAF biplane on the far side of the field. Oh for a camera!!!

The first air raid of the war came as a bit of a shock and we made use of the air raid shelter that my Dad and next door neighbour had dug in the garden. The only bomb dropped was 2/3 miles away . When the Germans were bombing Liverpool they seemed to start their run in from overhead so we had a few nights in the shelter. After the Manchester Blitz we moved out up to an uncle’s farm near Chapel en le Frith where I joined the Chapel flight of the Buxton Squadron of the ATC. In the first year of ATC, I was the only one from our flight that went to an airfield in the Midlands where they were doing training in Avro Ansons in which we were taken up for a flight most evenings. The next year we went to Elsham Wolds airfield which was the home for 103 Squadron that flew Lancasters on bombing raids and, again, we were offered flights in the Lancs. The first was a trip to Nottingham to take a airman on leave. Only those that had not flown before were given the

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chance to go and I and two others were picked for the next flight that was a practice drop on a range on the coast. I spent the trip in the upper gun turret and I was very tempted when a light plane flew quite near to see if the guns worked!!! When we landed again it was to be greeted by a RAF bloke asking if we had heard the news, namely that the Lanc that had gone to Nottingham had crashed at the end of Notts. runway and blown up killing the seven crew and the three ATC lads. That certainly put a damper on our trip and we returned home on the Tuesday. The lads were all buried in Chapel churchyard. That is our family church yard and I consider myself very lucky not to have ended up there.

I lost touch with the Squadron as we moved down to Whaley shortly after and only had cause to use the air raid shelter that had been provided once when we had some V 1's come over that had been dropped off He 111 over the North Sea . I think one killed about 32 folks in Oldham.

Having applied to join the R A F and got turned down with bad hearing, I then found that I had drawn the short straw and I was picked to be a Bevin Boy and I was sent down to South Wales to dig coal. I got graded out of the mines with suspect TB after twelve months but then I was called up into the army and after training in the RASC I was sent to Athens until demob in 1947.

We now move on to 1960 when the new Ringway Airport was opened and Finnigans were awarded the new Duty Free shop for which I was made the manager !! In those days we had a Swiss Air flight at 3-15 am and even though there were only a few passengers we had to open up for it!!

Happy days. One Sunday a customs friend popped his head round the door and asked me if I was free at all as there was a friend of theirs in his office who was looking for someone to join him for lunch in Dublin. He had

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a Beech Bonaza and wanted company on his flight. When we arrived at Dublin airport I organised the petrol bowser and then joined him for lunch. On leaving for home, we had just started to cross the Irish Sea when I was asked if I had ever flown an aircraft and when I said " No", he gave me the controls and a few instructions and I gave them back when we reached Anglesey --- most enjoyable!! Another time, when BOAC were starting using the VC 10, they gave all the staff at the airport a trip out over Northern Ireland which was great fun. My wife and I also had two trips to France and Holland, all for ÂŁ1-50 each, including lunch and a sight seeing trip! Another time I went on a trip for a weekend to Martels chateau. That was in a Dove from Gatwick. I stayed at the airport for eight years and my next job was as a rep selling caravan accessories in the north of England and Scotland.

When I eventually retired I thought what am I going to do and, as I had always fancied doing some drawing, I thought I would give it a try. I heard about an art club in Marple so I put my name down. As I also fancied trying to paint aircraft and I knew of MAvAS, so that was my next stop and that was 19 years ago. I must say that although my paintings are not as good as the majority of the other members, at least I have sold the odd one or two. I also made friends with a framer who had a shop in Cheadle so that saved me some money as I could frame any of my paintings in exchange for helping my friend. I fitted out two work rooms and a shop. He eventually moved away and left me his gear so I continued to frame.

Some twelve moths ago I was smitten with some sores on my legs which resulted in me being in hospital for three months and I was only able to get around by using a frame.

Unfortunately, I was suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as well. I have not felt like drawing for some time but only this week I have dug some paper and paints out and I might come to a meeting again if I can manage to get a lift as I walk with the aid of a frame and no longer drive.

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Tonight`s event was the Annual General Meeting which was attended by 11 members, a surprising number considering the traffic chaos in Manchester caused by the Man. United v. Real Madrid match.

Hon. Sec. Colin Taylor did a sterling job and the existing Committee was re-elected en bloc – less Peter Carter who stood down. So, for the next Society year, the Committee comprises President Harry Holmes, Chairman Peter Flitcroft, Secretary Colin Taylor, Treasurer Peter Grove and members John Williams, Dave Bates, Peter Nield, Ron Sargeant and Len Sakowicz. The Joining Fee of £5 plus annual subs of £20 Ordinary, £15 OAP and £25 Family Membership remain unchanged.

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There were some minor updates to the Constitution, i.e., the post of Vice Chairman is scrapped, as is the Selection Panel Chairman. The duties previously carried out by the Selection Panel Chairman will now be dealt with at each individual event by a volunteer Exhibitions Officer. In his absence, Editor Dave Bates was complimented on his efforts and the continuing high standard of the MAvAS magazine. The programme of events for 2013/2014 is more or less established and we can look forward to good times ahead.

Membership at the end of the AGM stood at 35, including 30 artists, 3 nonartists and 2 Hon. members. The A.G.M. was followed by general discussion about photographs and their value in relation to aviation art.

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Roger Markman tells us about

The Comet 1 and my tonsils!

When I was very young, about six, I had my tonsils removed! Back then, in the early 1950s, this was almost the fashion and very many kids had it done. It necessitated me staying in hospital for approximately one day, as I recall. I remember staying in a small ward with a few other kids my age and, for some reason, there was no parental visiting allowed! To help me survive this saga of endurance, my parents tried everything they knew to boost my juvenile morale.

Firstly I was told that when I wake up a HUGE bowl of ice cream would be given to me! The reality proved to be a pathetic 1/72 scale model of a portion of ice cream, suitable for leprechaun patients at best!

Secondly I was given a present only to be opened after the op. This was the Dinky die cast Comet 1 airliner, resplendent in BOAC livery! My delight with this more than made up for the acute disappointment of the miserable ice cream portion! It was wonderful and I flew it for hours on end as little boys do, landing and taking off from the bedclothes whilst making all the right noises! I think I must have taught myself to whistle for this very purpose! Later on I was to teach myself to both whistle and hum AT THE SAME TIME to make the correct noise for my Dinky Vickers Viscount turboprop. (I can still do this trick, but find that demand for it is extremely small in this age of surround sound computer games. Pity!)

That all happened SIXTY years ago! Can it be possible? I’m afraid the answer is almost certainly YES! The effect has been life long. I still love ice cream and have been making up for my 1953 disappointment ever since! I still also love the De Havilland Comet!

For me this aircraft is simply exquisite. It has such a clean pure line that, as others have observed, it seems to be travelling at speed when it is standing still on the runway! Podded engines as per the Boeing 707 always seem to me highly reminiscent of 1930s aircraft with spatted or trousered fixed undercarriages! The clean wing of the Comet seems the right answer aerodynamically. I might well be wrong but I know what seems to me to have beauty of form.

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The fuselage, and especially the nose, is am amazing shape!

Uniquely stylish no other is as good, except of course the Caravelle that used the same structure. How wise the French can be!

The Comet 1 so very nearly gave this country a lead in passenger aircraft that would have put us years ahead of the Americans, but the gods had a different fate in store! The much improved and super safe and reliable models that were developed from the Comet 1 were just too late. The longer nosed 4b and 4c models with more powerful engines look more “modern” in one sense, but in the context of its time the Comet 1 seemed to be something out of the Eagle comic! Dan Dare should have used Above, Comet Prototype and Comet 1 one as his executive jet!

by David Bates below Comet 4 by John Williams

There is a market for nostalgia art that many may be familiar with? Typically Morris Minors, steam trains, English villages like Ambridge in the Archers………..all that stuff! Why not a nice large helping of Comet 1 with early 1950s passengers and cabin staff dressed like WAAFs? It was an age when airhostesses all spoke like the Queen and all the pilots like Biggles!

So lets have some chocks away, wizard prang, tally ho, jet kites art please!

Sorry, but I feel an irresistible urge to whistle! Must fly!……………

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The pro digital art members have had a say.

Now a traditionalist is given a voice.

Ron Sargeant Replies To be or not to be, that is the question. Computer crafted art or hand crafted art, is there a difference?

I see it this way, that computers began as mathematical and grammatical aids then further developments led to many more capabilities, mostly recreational play abouts such as gaming. In the course of game development, the illustrative quality became very good and also the development of digital photography linked to computers brought forth the ability to manipulate a photograph in any way required, thus bringing about the artistic desire to use the computer to create new works of art.

I think I am right in saying that most digital art is a manipulation of photographs by removing or adding elements of photographic detail then corrupting their appearance by the use of computer tools. That is to paint over the photograph and change it into a painting. Typically, this process is in software termed Photoshop that enables all kinds of creative possibilities. Artwork of the traditional kind, such as a drawing or painting, can be scanned into the computer then, much in the same way as the photo process, it can be manipulated into a digital picture.

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Now, I don`t condemn digital art as a bad thing but I do see it as a diversion from traditional art which I think is more personal and therefore more creative as art, unlike the work of artists who dump a pile of bricks on the floor and say it is art – or use items of someone else`s creation to make up a so-called work of art.

But returning to the picture art world, I see printing out or downloading a copy of a picture created in a computer as not real art. To me, real art is a work done with materials and tools that physically exist and are used to create work with your own hands and fingers and seeing the picture develop from start to finish when it is there before you ready to be displayed and not, as in the digital world of the computer, to be extracted as a copy. In digital art the original is within the computer as an electronic work of art, so the downloaded picture is a copy not the original. To display digital pictures in an exhibition of traditional works is just like displaying art prints, not real, just copies.

To make a point Ron drew a quick sketch titled “Korea off the Cuff�

An original work of art without the need of modern technology the pencil is mightier than the mouse?.

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The Jim Mackendrick

As members will know, the latest annual Jim Mackendrick Troph coincidentally the date of issue for this Magazine No.77. On th 1953 to 1953”. In the last magazine No.76, members will rec it might be a good idea to include one painting by our late mem panel every time “his” Trophy competition came up. The idea is to aviation art, members might be encouraged to become m accomplished professional and a very imaginative artist in his “Crash Two”. Jim always had a liking for the combination of bla dream-like piece that is the first of ten paintings in our posses

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Incidentally, if anyone has doubts about his adventurous time as Head Teacher at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at Kumasi in Ghana, the following image of the young Jim`s Driving Licence might go some way to allay their concerns!

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hy competition is being held tonight at the meeting on 4th June, his occasion, the subject matter is “Aircraft of the Korean War call reading the article “Jim`s Last Wish” in which we said that mber and good friend Jim (1920-1998) on the Museum display to honour Jim and perhaps, by seeing his inspirational approach more experimental and adventurous in their work. Jim was an s day, as can be seen in his cubist style painting below entitled acks, blues and browns that are shown off to great effect in this ssion.

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Colin, Steve and Jules at the Guild of Aviation Artists

As a long-standing friend of the Guild of Aviation Artists I thought it was about time I attended one of their Regional Meetings, so one Saturday in April I took myself to the Northern Regions first meeting of the year at the Yorkshire Air Museum. Elvington is a former RAF bomber base with a lot of preserved buildings and is still semi-active as a landing strip and a motor racing test circuit. There are lots of interesting displays, artifacts, vehicles and aircraft.

I was pleased to see two other Mavas types namely Steve Kerry and Jules Hammond.

The Guild has a group admission price concession, so £7 was passed to the Guilds Northern Region Organiser Phil Mcginness. The meeting was at 10-30 am in the ‘VC Room’ which is a side room in the NAAFI building (that’s the Café to you and me) in which is displayed a collection of portraits of the Air VCs. It was a bit of a tight squeeze due to the unusually large turnout and an improbably large table.

Nevertheless, after some formalities Keith Woodcock gave a short illustrated talk on the pitfalls of photographic perspective when applied to painting. Phil set a task of a 10 minute sketch of the Buccaneer which subsequently he himself won by consensus, and then we dispersed to do our own sketching and painting, to reconvene later for a review.

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The weather was warm and fair becoming cloudy in the afternoon but the rain held off until the journey home. I have always been shy of painting in public but I did my first outdoor live painting , a watercolour of the Nimrod, and I spoke to some members of the public, so personal development too!

At 3-00pm we reconvened. Steve had brought his computer gear and had given a demonstration and allowed some hands on practice for computer novices. His finished printed work was also well received by the meeting although at headquarters level the Guild does not hang computer printed work.

The days work was reviewed comprising a selection of paintings and drawings and Jules won by consensus a prize for his sepia toned sketch of a BE2. One of the members then displayed a painting of and gave a short talk on the history of Sikorskis first big biplane the Grand.

It was a very pleasant day out but the Northern Region covers a huge area and future meetings are at Dumfries, East Fortune and Breighton so something to consider for the future.

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born in Hampshire in1943 and I was two years old on VE Our house was under the final approach to RAF Andover aturally enough “aeroplane” was one of my first words. e years immediately following WW2 there was still a lot litary flying going on and every RAF aerodrome seemed ve a Battle of Britain open day.

ocal show featured Spitfires, Mosquitos still in invasion ngs, Lincolns, Meteors, Vampires and every mporary training and transport aircraft you could think here, in about 1950, I sat in a Sikorsky R.4 Hoverfly the RAF’s local Helicopter Training School, and my nd I had our photo taken – highlight of the day!

ng up in the days before TV, we made our own entertainment and aero modelling e a great childhood passion, together with drawing the “Ideal Aeroplane” in exercise books. My attempts at drawing pictures of aeroplanes (mainly ons, really) didn’t translate into “art” until many years later, when I joined in about 2001, but then my early recollections re-emerged in some of the ts that I painted.

ndover was the home of the RAF Staff Training College and the regular “bus e” was operated by Transport Command Avro Ansons, which flew over our house aily basis. Many years later, this was to encourage me to paint “Faithful Annie”.

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The Aircraft and Armament Research Establishment (AARE), Boscombe Down, which was “test pilot central”, was just a few miles away, and also nearby was Chilbolton where the Folland Midge and Gnat were development-flown. These childhood recollections resurfaced in my picture of the Midge in “First Flight”.

In 1962, my long-held dream of becoming an airline pilot seemed to be coming true when I gained a two year scholarship to train as an airline pilot at the Government’s College of Air Training at Hamble, learning to fly on Chipmunks. Unfortunately I was “chopped” mid-course, along with a third of my colleagues, and packed off back to civvy street but the fond memories of those heady days prompted me to paint “Captains of the Future” in 2003.

I gained my PPL on Jackaroos at Thruxton in 1963 and went on to work for British Eagle in 1964 as a Load Controller on Viscounts and Britannias, but in 1966 I decided on a change in career direction and enrolled on a degree course in Civil Engineering.

Fast forward through thirty-five years of designing and building bridges in Cambridgeshire and Warrington, and of restoring derelict land, historic buildings, docks etc in Liverpool and Birkenhead until I “ discovered” MAvAS in 2001, after a chance sighting of a picture of Me 109s by Peter Nield in an exhibition in Frodsham.

I had been dabbling in art for a few years and after being vetted, I was invited to become an Artist Member. I wanted a) to learn to draw convincing pictures of aeroplanes and b) to paint clouds and skies. After twelve years, my aeroplanes are coming along, thanks largely to Ossie’s workshops, but my skies still have some way to go!

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My first “proper” picture after I joined MAvAS was “Peerless Viscount”, G-AMOO, one of the British Eagle planes that I despatched at Heathrow many times in the mid-1960s

My aviation interests tend to be civil rather than military and light rather than “heavy”, and this emerges in “Avid Flyer” and “Father of the Flying Flea”.

After forty earth-bound years, I now fly microlights at Barton on an intermittent basis (the all-metal, three-axis Eurostar) – no paintings yet, but watch this space!

I have also belonged to the Warrington Art Group since 1996 and have been it’s Chairman for the past twelve years. After quite a few years of retirement, I still seem to have too little time to enjoy painting and drawing and the MAvAS competitions provide the necessary incentive (and focus) for a few days of frenzied activity at least twice a year!

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Aviation Nose Ar

A slide show and talk by Peter Flit

11 members attended and for the first time i many months the Conference Room was reasonably warm. Peter`s on-screen presentation was very good and was backed up by many examples from his ample supply of illustrated “Nose Art” books. The majority of the images naturally related to American aircraft, especially WW2 era, and it was a very nice touch to have the event accompanied by atmospheric background music from Glenn Miller. Peter concluded by reading the following rather moving preface taken from one his books.

It`s mid-winter 1943, you`re twenty years old, it`s 04:30 in the morning cold. You`ve got a slight hangover, and you`re walking in mud (there`s a You`re wearing a fur-lined flying suit, because where you`re going it`s t zero. You`ve got an oxygen mask, because where you`re going it`s hard carrying a map, because at 20,000 feet there are no signs. Prior to Decem main goal in life was to get a car and marry Ginger Rogers, but now it`s other day, because you`re a crewman on a B-17, and where you`re going die.

But not you, not your plane, not your crew, because you`re special, and always come back. They don`t blow up in the sky, or go in at 400 miles p gone, no chutes, on fire – not the special ones, they always come back.

So we need a special name for our plane – and a special picture on it. Ma Betty Grable, or one of those Vargas girls from Esquire. And we`ll name “Sack Time”, “Mister Completely” or “Target for Tonight”. But it has to it`s finished, it will be ready – Ready for Duty.

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Roger Reviews James Hamilton–Paterson Pub Faber and Faber 2010 paperback ISBN 978-0-571-24795-0 375 pages £9.99 This is quite simply one of the very best aviation books to have been written in years and is ESSENTIAL reading!

Brilliantly written, it is utterly absorbing; truly a book that one cannot put down!

It tells the story of British aviation from 1945 to the present but with the main emphasis on the 1950’s and 60’s. It is told from the perspective of the author, who was born in 1942, and that of the famous test pilots who were at the forefront of British aviation after the war. age of this It is all there! Every few sentences (if one is the society’s membership), one experiences waves of nostalgia. Little things sometimes like the echo of the public address system at Farnborough eg “and now Neville Duke is approaching from the black sheds…eds!”

References to Jetex model engines! The whole “Sound Barrier” saga! The Fairey Delta2 and that record! 1132MPH, a speed engraved on the minds of British aviation enthusiasts until death! The Flying Bedstead! The Javelin and the Swift! The Britannia and the VC-10!

The test pilot testimony is quite amazing! How incredibly so many of these aircraft were, at least in their early stages of development!

How utterly unergonomic (the word didn’t even exist in the 1950’s) cockpits were, instruments and switches scattered here there and everywhere.

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The pressure to get an aircraft into production and sold to as many air forces as possible, as quickly as possible. This approach led to a number of tragic disasters, chief amongst which was the Comet. This tragedy is recounted in detail again with some amazing pilot testimony.

The famous names are too numerous to list and rather than miss any, I will leave the reader to encounter them all in the book. British test pilots were, in the 1950’s, akin to racing drivers, footballers or rock stars. Their names were household words and their exploits put them in a super hero category. Most were ex RAF World War Two airmen with glittering records. Technically civilians employed by industry, their whole image was RAF with whom they mixed regularly and were addressed by their former ranks.

The astounding winners are also here, the Viscount, Hunter, Canberra and Lightening. The overall message being that but for better management and government planning the whole industry might still exist. Like cars, ship building and much else beside it has all disappeared forever! The remnant is a shell of what might have been!

So if you are a bit grey at the temples and remember when you were a kid, enjoy the whiff of kerosene, the roar of an Avon and seat of the pants armchair flying; then this is quite simply essential reading!

Editor’s Note.

After Reading Roger’s review, I had a look what Amazon could offer, and soon I was transported back to my youth.

Wow those were the planes I loved.

Unfortunately, as the author details, it was the age of appalling management. Japanese innovation and attention to detail took over most markets without a noticeable fight.

Older friends might have Triumph or Norton super bikes to kick start, but I had an electric starter, mirrors and rear footrests as standard on my little (Jap - Crap) Honda.

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NEWS ROUND Steve Kerry has sold his CGI painting "Speedbird" (Concorde) off the panel - thereby starting a new era of digital sales for MAvAS. Ron Leigh is retiring from NHS in July and one of his objectives is to expand his already established DJ activities. So, if you have a need for a well organised supporting event at any time, just contact Ron on 01244.450244

Diary Dates Meetings are held from 7-00pm to 9-30pm in the Conference Room in the Air and Space Hall at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester on the first Tuesday in the month unless otherwise stated.

Monday 1st July “Sketching at Barton” In conjunction with Warrington Art Group 4-00pm to 8-30pm Meet at the Control Tower

Wear hi-visibility yellow jackets if possible Hosted by Roger Rumbold

Tuesday 2nd July “Sketching from scale model aircraft” Hosted by Peter Flitcroft Bring materials.

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Sunday 7th July “Exhibition at Barton Airport” Exhibition Officer Colin Taylor Works require hooks, string and MAvAS labels Deliver paintings at 8.30am and collect at 4-30pm 10% on sales to Sparks, Children`s Medical Reseacrh Charity

Tuesday 6th August “The English Electric Canberra” An illustrated talk by Peter Grove

Saturday 10th August “Workshop - Pastel Sketching” 10-00am to 4-00pm Hosted by David F. Steeden Bring materials

Tuesday 3rd September “Aviation Related Still Life” Subjects to be provided Hosted by Colin Taylor Bring materials

ADVANCE WARNING Tuesday 1st October “Avro Trophy Competition” Subject – “British Aviation 1945-1965” Adjudicator to be announced

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Dave Bates Tel: 0161-284-3467 Email: davidbates@ntlworld.com Society website: www.mavas.co.uk