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Having read this article. This is nothing more than a man that has a job that pays Bankers Wages?? As he talks about is son useing his owne money to buy all that tackle. The boy does not have a job ? so how did he get hold of such a large sum of money. I am all in favour of bringing young people in to this hobby. But there is a better way to encourage them rathere than rub ordinery kids knose in it, to what they could have if daddy was well of etc, etc, etc

I can remember the Valcun that was used by the then Bristol Sidley. It was called a flying test bed, the airdraft was all white and the houseing with the Olympus 593 engine inside was blue. It was located where the bomb doors would have been. It was housed in Bristol Sidley's Flight Shed. My dad was the man that towed it in and out of the hanger. He was on the ground crew. They had two hangers one large one with the Vulcan in and a smaller one with loads of othere aircraft in. I can remember as a boy of 13, 14 years old my dad would work it so I could go to work with him on a Sunday, when he had overtime to get ready one or two aircraft ready for flight and wait for otheres to come back. I remember a few times I went up inside the Vulcan and sat in the pilots seat. I thought it was so cool. There was the pilot and co-pilots seat and a deck behined and lower three seats for the Navigator, Filght Engineer and Bomber I think. I had never seen so many clocks, dial, switches ect in my life. I spent many happy hours on a Sunday when my dad could take me to work with him. Looking around all the Aircraft.