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The Elevator Contact: - [email protected] www.lancsaeroclub.co.uk The Elevator The Fly by Wire Newsletter of the Lancashire Aero Club Editorial address: - [email protected] February 2011 I’ve heard nothing at all about your views on increasing the membership but have included a letter from John Coxon which I hope generates a response. I was reading through some past copies of TrimTab the other day and it is clear that there was a real feeling of belonging to LAC in those days. That community spirit is somewhat lacking now which is disappointing. Do please let me know your thoughts on the matter. I hope February brings with it good flying weather and that you all have a successful Valentine’s Day!! WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE... Bad Charlie takes to the air with Captain Greenwood at the controls! Open Day at Barton! Comper Swift arrives at Breighton. Ashes, ashes, ashes... Grandma & Grandpa Grandma and Grandpa were visiting their kids overnight. When Grandpa found a bottle of Viagra in his son's medicine cabinet, he asked about using one of the pills. The son said, "I don't think you should take one Dad; they're very strong and very expensive." "How much?" asked Grandpa. "$10. a pill," Answered the son. "I don't care," said Grandpa, "I'd still like to try one, and before we leave in the morning, I'll put the money under the pillow." Later the next morning, the son found $110 under the pillow. He called Grandpa and said, "I told you each pill was $10, not $110. "I know," said Grandpa. "The hundred is from Grandma!" BAILING OUT... It is a slow day in a damp little Irish town. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the pub. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The prostitute then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town. No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism……... and that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works. Look at what happened from 1998 until 2008. In just ten years it has grown and grown. Watch the pieces come together as they are sent up from Earth. This is the International Space Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece. I had no idea the Space Station had grown to this size. This is really cool… http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm CHAIRMAN’S CHAT AND NEWS... As you may well imagine this time of the year is very quiet on the committee front as we get ready to face the coming year. Most of the committee work is already decided with the finances being the major consideration and these were settled last year for a three year term. This takes a large problem from the decision making process and all we have to consider now is how to generate more membership for the Club. You may well wonder why we need to think about generating membership but the fact is that we have been losing members every year since we lost Barton to Peel Holdings. Even when we were still at Barton there was a loss in membership as the reason to be a member for a lot of people no longer existed. That being you had to be a member to fly from Barton. One of the quirky facts of the USA is that pilots there feel the need to ‘belong’. You only have to look at the EAA for this as their membership is in the 100,000’s. It is so very different from this country as we seem to be much more independent and do not feel the need to ‘belong’ to any club/association. The example would be the LAA which has a membership of about 8,000. It doesn’t bear any comparison with the USA and neither does the LAC with its membership. The strip at Kenyon Hall will be opening on Sunday the 1st of May and will continue to open on Sundays’ through the year. There will be some special activity at least once a month through the year as we have done since we opened the strip two years ago. Time has gone so quickly that it hardly seems to be two years that we started along this line but there is the basis of a very good facility for the Club. Obviously the one aspect that we now need to develop is that of planning permission to use the strip for the whole year and not just the 28 days as we are at the moment. The airfield sub-committee will be looking at this very closely in the coming months to decide the best course of action. When we approach the council for the permission we must have a solid case to give us the best chance of success and this will take a lot of advice. It is not something we can rush into; though we cannot delay too long as we know you are looking to us to give you an airfield. As there are some good flying days in winter all I can say is safe flying and clear skies. CLIFF MORT A FEW SNIPPETS: BY PETE MAHER It’s ironic that Roger Wareing should write about a sunken steam roller at Barton in last month’s Elevator because that was my intended next piece. I hope this will still prove interesting… David Upton / Steam Engine Some members may remember a jolly L.A.C. member by the name of David Upton. David was a Market Gardener, who farmed on Barton Moss, who sadly passed away over ten years ago. He could remember Barton from being a boy and always insisted that a steam engine had sunk into the peat which lay beneath the airfield. Eventually it sank totally beneath the surface and he always insisted that it was still beneath the ground. Moving on to page 81 of ‘Three Score Years…’ I had managed to find a faded photograph of a Handley Page HP42 belonging to Imperial Airways which was taken at Barton and was without doubt the largest aeroplane ever to visit the Aerodrome. ( I subsequently discovered that it was used to transport the first Royal visitor to Barton, namely the Duke of Gloucester who ironically was visiting an Agricultural Show at Hough End Fields, which of course had previously been Alexandra Park Aerodrome. ) We must now move on to a Wednesday afternoon, when I was in the Clubhouse chatting with the members of Manchester Bomber Command. A man entered the Clubhouse and when he started asking questions about the history of Barton he was pointed in my direction. I produced a copy of my book for him to peruse and when looking at the illustrations he was drawn to page 81. He explained that the Handley Page HP42 had been seconded by the RAF during the second World War and he had met its pilot who had also been at the controls when the Duke of Gloucester was flown to Barton. The pilot had gone on to recount that during the approach to land he spotted the steam engine more than half submerged beneath the surface just to the side of the runway. Apparently he had re-visited Barton and upon enquiring about the disappearance of the steam roller he was informed that it had totally sank into the peat. So there we have it. Definite confirmation of David Upton’s story. I wonder if “Time Team” would be interested ? Footnote. The Airshow for 1984 included a Junkers 52 which actually arrived on the Friday for the Press Day. After the demonstration for the TV cameras it was parked out on the airfield beyond the fence line. It remained there until the time of its performance on the Sunday afternoon. However, in just that short time it had sunk well enough not to be able to move under its own power. A multitude of volunteers had to be summoned to pull and push it up onto firmer ground!! Now that would have been something to brag and boast about if we also had a sunken Junkers 52! My next Project : Did you know that the Hawker Hurricane was a Bi-plane ? BAD CHARLIE FLIES AT LAST ..
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