Jun
02

Rally Stow Maries First World War Aerodrome - 2nd - 4th June

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Tiger Moth flying in at 1400….!!!!!!
 
Did anyone get any footage of it taking off and doing the low fly past ??
 
ChrisL said:
No sadly not, I was making Tabouleh :giggle:
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There appears to be lots of currants on the rally field, you could harvest them and add them to your salad ......

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If anyone hasnt received their 'quiz' to identify the airline logo's please let me know. I will have some spares in the airmens mess hall later.

They need to be returned to me BEFORE 4pm tomorrow to be included in the chance to win (drum roll .........)



a whole, not even ever been opened, bottle of wine courtesy of the South Essex .....

Re the 'cafe', I apologise but even I didn't know it was being opened for us until around 1430 hrs today and even then I was told it was for tea and tiffin. It was only when Rosie arrived that she said she would be offering meals and snacks this evening.
Then when I went in to thank her around 1600 hrs she then told me she was offering breakfast in the morning ...!!

I suggest those ordering breakfast try to do it so as not to impact on their tour time ...
I imagine it might be available on Weds morning aswell before we leave ....
 
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MisterB said:
If anyone hasnt received their 'quiz' to identify the airline logo's please let me know. I will have some spares in the airmens mess hall later.

They need to be returned to me BEFORE 4pm tomorrow to be included in the chance to win (drum roll .........)



a whole, not even ever been opened, bottle of wine courtesy of the South Essex .....

Re the 'cafe', I apologise but even I didn't know it was being opened for us until around 1430 hrs today and even then I was told it was for tea and tiffin. It was only when Rosie arrived that she said she would be offering meals and snacks this evening.
Then when I went in to thank her around 1600 hrs she then told me she was offering breakfast in the morning ...!!

I suggest those ordering breakfast try to do it so as not to impact on their tour time ...
I imagine it might be available on Weds morning aswell before we leave ....
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And very hospital they are!

Coffee was good.

Booked for breakfast tomorrow.
 
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As we prepare to fasten our seat belts for push back from our stands, and taxi down the approach road and roll out to our different patrol sectors it's time to acknowledge the months of operation planning that allowed us to get this sortie off the ground. The two different chugger and tugger squadrons formed a cohesive wing with a stunning ground crew effort from the aerodrome.

OK I've run out of aviation puns.

Thanks Dave, and long suffering Yvette, The Sharpies (South Essex CMC), and the Stow Maries team.
 
Hope you all have a safe journey home and some are not two tyred from their visit to Stow Maries, it was nice to see a Funster team win the quiz, despite the rather loud whispering of two of the team members (you know who you are ...). It always helps to have a former teacher adding the points scored. Rachael from accounts has nothing on the Funsters Fiscal Fiddler ..... We learnt that not only where there is a will, there is a relative .... but one Funster found reference to his great grandfather in the museum (though in true Funster style someone else had to tell him ...!!) bearing in mind this is someone who earned his keep being observant and studying objects to determine their value, yet completely missed the blatantly obvious in from of him ....
Another little snippet revealed itself, when I learnt that the man who might be older than most of us has actually flown a Tiger Moth!! Life is full of these little things that just jump up out of nowhere and never fail to surprise us, I was also fortunate to hear the sad story of how one of our members long distant relatives lost his life in a flying accident just before the armistice, but I loved the fact he was prepared to share it with us.
We also learnt that metal detecting with gadgets can sometimes be usurped by a keen eye as one of our members found an unused .303 round of ammunition, which he identified as a bit of scrap metal, then handed it to someone they believed to be a responsible adult, only for that (ir)responsible adult to then carry it around in his trouser pocket for the rest of the afternoon, but his crown jewels are safe thankfully and he won't have to revert to his/her Sunday name....The 'find' will be logged and added into the museum display along with a few scratched records some of you were forced to hear.by DJ Dave
It also became apparent that whispers in Scotland might be interpreted as very loud speaking in England, so loud that those people the whispers were about might have heard, but thankfully due to the North of England dialect she still holds true, the cockneys didn't have a 'scoobie doo'.
It also appears that in one motorhome this afternoon, a re-enactment of the witches in the play Macbeth was being held, double, bubble, toil and trouble - you decide yourselves witch motorhome it was ....
You may have noticed though that they had several visits from male callers throughout the afternoon, which may have been entirely due to some bright spark replacing the broken awning light with a red bulb ...

We discovered that Shotgun Chris is a man of many talents, including either being a master of aircraft recognition or he might just have decided to Google the answers as he won the first quiz of the night, but please don't let him navigate home, set the bloody sat nav and ignore Shotgun and his sidekick, Calamity Jane..

So the competition score was

Funsters 2 Caravan club 1


And just to top it all off we had a helicopter flight and light display to send us all to the land of nod, so it's a goodnight from me and a goodnight from him ....

As always, if I've missed some snippets, please feel free to add them ... But let's keep it light hearted, it's only Fun !!

Safe journey everyone and best wishes
 
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Thank you David and Yvette for organising this event, it has been a very enjoyable and interesting few days, thanks also to Rob for all his hard work marshaling us, without you I'm pretty sure it would descend into chaos. :giggle:

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MisterB said:
Hope you all have a safe journey home and some are not two tyred from their visit to Stow Maries, it was nice to see a Funster team win the quiz, despite the rather loud whispering of two of the team members (you know who you are ...). It always helps to have a former teacher adding the points scored. Rachael from accounts has nothing on the Funsters Fiscal Fiddler ..... We learnt that not only where there is a will, there is a relative .... but one Funster found reference to his great grandfather in the museum (though in true Funster style someone else had to tell him ...!!) bearing in mind this is someone who earned his keep being observant and studying objects to determine their value, yet completely missed the blatantly obvious in from of him ....
Another little snippet revealed itself, when I learnt that the man who might be older than most of us has actually flown a Tiger Moth!! Life is full of these little things that just jump up out of nowhere and never fail to surprise us, I was also fortunate to hear the sad story of how one of our members long distant relatives lost his life in a flying accident just before the armistice, but I loved the fact he was prepared to share it with us.
We also learnt that metal detecting with gadgets can sometimes be usurped by a keen eye as one of our members found an unused .303 round of ammunition, which he identified as a bit of scrap metal, then handed it to someone they believed to be a responsible adult, only for that (ir)responsible adult to then carry it around in his trouser pocket for the rest of the afternoon, but his crown jewels are safe thankfully and he won't have to revert to his/her Sunday name....The 'find' will be logged and added into the museum display along with a few scratched records some of you were forced to hear.by DJ Dave
It also became apparent that whispers in Scotland might be interpreted as very loud speaking in England, so loud that those people the whispers were about might have heard, but thankfully due to the North of England dialect she still holds true, the cockneys didn't have a 'scoobie doo'.
It also appears that in one motorhome this afternoon, a re-enactment of the witches in the play Macbeth was being held, double, bubble, toil and trouble - you decide yourselves witch motorhome it was ....
You may have noticed though that they had several visits from male callers throughout the afternoon, which may have been entirely due to some bright spark replacing the broken awning light with a red bulb ...

We discovered that Shotgun Chris is a man of many talents, including either being a master of aircraft recognition or he might just have decided to Google the answers as he won the first quiz of the night, but please don't let him navigate home, set the bloody sat nav and ignore Shotgun and his sidekick, Calamity Jane..

So the competition score was

Funsters 2 Caravan club 1


And just to top it all off we had a helicopter flight and light display to send us all to the land of nod, so it's a goodnight from me and a goodnight from him ....

As always, if I've missed some snippets, please feel free to add them ... But let's keep it light hearted, it's only Fun !!

Safe journey everyone and best wishes
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Thank you Dave for organising both meet ups I was hoping to see Yvette last night just to say our good byes, and believe it or not we can actually get home with our built in navigation. Thanks to you both Chris & Dorothy
 
MisterB said:
And just to top it all off we had a helicopter flight and light display
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My thoughts were, that the helicopter devision of the Essex Constabulary had thought that they had come across an illegal encampment of your travelling friends. 🤔😊
 
Thank you Mr B Dave and Yvette for two wonderful meets ie Thorpe and Stow Maries. Obviously a lot of time and effort went into both. We've really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks again.
 
Would like to add our thanks to Dave and all of his helpers for an excellent double header rally. We’ve enjoyed both venues greatly and the Aerodrome tour particularly. First rally for quite a while for us and great to meet up with some old friends and some new ones.
Thanks everyone - it’s been a hoot.
 
Thanks to Dave and Yvette for a great rally at Thorpe le Soken. A really nice location with lots to see and do in the surrounding area.
Stow Maries was a truly unique venue for a rally. The welcome from Ian and staff was incredible. What an interesting period of history we have been privileged to see and enjoy.
The police helicopter came looking for a red awning light but the phantom sparky had been at work again but were too late……
Perhaps the Fire Bobbies would do better 😉
Hope Yvette is feeling better today.
Safe travels to all 👍

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Back home safe and sound. We did have a small diversion around parts of Essex we didn’t really want to see (sorry to those from Essex) courtesy of sat nav wanting us to take a road that didn’t exist and a navigator who thought he knew a short cut!!
Very many thank to all those involved in the organisation and execution of the event, both rally and museum visit. We very much enjoyed it.
 
hja said:
Back home safe and sound. We did have a small diversion around parts of Essex we didn’t really want to see (sorry to those from Essex) courtesy of sat nav wanting us to take a road that didn’t exist and a navigator who thought he knew a short cut!!
Very many thank to all those involved in the organisation and execution of the event, both rally and museum visit. We very much enjoyed it.
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were you following Shotgun Chris and Calamity?
Chris RJ
 
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Thank you Dave & Yvette for an excellent location for a rally, certainly something out of the ordinary. We both thoroughly enjoyed it.
Jeff &Chris
 
pj650 said:
The police helicopter came looking for a red awning light but the phantom sparky had been at work again but were too late……
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Ian has copied me in on a very strongly worded email he has sent to the boys (and girls) in blue, quoting flying legislation and permits, he has also lodged a complaint of anti social behaviour against the pilot, who it turns out 'had decided to carry out training manoeuvres, sanctioned only by himself' in an airspace that was restricted ......

and he called ME Gruppunfuhrer ........... !!:LOL:
 
Again my thanks.

Safely parked up in Cardiff and going to have a short nap before cooking.

My apologies to the blue/grey? PVC that I cut up/failed to let change lanes on the roundabout to access the M25, sorry a moment of distraction when the white van man cut infront of me, I was preparing for further evasive action if his manoeuvres continued and only then noticed that your lane was coned off and I should have let you out.
 
The Old Man said:
Again my thanks.

Safely parked up in Cardiff and going to have a short nap before cooking.

My apologies to the blue/grey? PVC that I cut up/failed to let change lanes on the roundabout to access the M25, sorry a moment of distraction when the white van man cut infront of me, I was preparing for further evasive action if his manoeuvres continued and only then noticed that your lane was coned off and I should have let you out.
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i spoke to the pilot this morning and he smiled with a 'wow' when i told him we had a funster who had piloted a Tiger Moth, albeit some time ago - he didnt quite get to Tally Ho, but i sensed there was an appreciative nod of comradeship/respect from his response ....

pilots that fly in the same aircraft albeit at different times and locations, stick together i assume ... LOL

pleased you're back and safe, as you had a rather long journey, best wishes Dave and Yvette
 
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The Old Man said:
Again my thanks.

Safely parked up in Cardiff and going to have a short nap before cooking.

My apologies to the blue/grey? PVC that I cut up/failed to let change lanes on the roundabout to access the M25, sorry a moment of distraction when the white van man cut infront of me, I was preparing for further evasive action if his manoeuvres continued and only then noticed that your lane was coned off and I should have let you out.
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Ah! It was you with the funster sign! Ian said - look, he must have been at Stoke Marie as well. You didnt really cut me up - that junction was a mess, with two lanes signed and then suddenly only one! No problems.
 
hja said:
Ah! It was you with the funster sign! Ian said - look, he must have been at Stoke Marie as well. You didnt really cut me up - that junction was a mess, with two lanes signed and then suddenly only one! No problems.
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Thanks.

I actually followed you out of the site, until I stopped for fuel and was quite surprised to meet up again when we did!
 
MisterB said:
i spoke to the pilot this morning and he smiled with a 'wow' when i told him we had a funster who had piloted a Tiger Moth, albeit some time ago - he didnt quite get to Tally Ho, but i sensed there was an appreciative nod of comradeship/respect from his response ....

pilots that fly in the same aircraft albeit at different times and locations, stick together i assume ... LOL

pleased you're back and safe, as you had a rather long journey, best wishes Dave and Yvette
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Sometimes its the affinity of having survived the same aircraft! 😀 In or out of combat. 😀

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