I was there a few years ago when dad passed, hopefully I’ll be there in the Spring to visit family and a few jamboree etc
at ezojag; is that in scottsdale? pima rd?
If that is a two-stroke SAAB 96 in the background… I’m interested!
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The photo was taken after Alpio’s car show in north Scottsdale. Happens 2nd Saturday for each month.
The ‘roof garden’ is an E type look I’ve never seen before…
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Ok are you up to the challenge?
The unhappiest day of the year! Last ride of the season!
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The seasons come… The seasons go…
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I drove my E into the first week of December last year. Will do the same this year, or until there’s salt on the roads.
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Yes, very fitting! Love some of the great music you’ve posted on JL Paul!
I will drive it as long as I can Nick, for sure, but, going on a weeks vacation and they’re calling for nothing but rain, long range! No salt and a dry road and I may still get out! I can’t seem to get enough of this car!
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Glad you enjoy!
I try to see things in music: Jags make symphonies!
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No need to be unhappy. I just put the XJ6 away for the winter. And registered the XJ12
for the winter. It is my old car that a lorry crashed into. A friend repaired it (not quite finished yet, ugly but drivable) and then sold it back to me.The S-Max is sold and I am waiting for a new one. So I needed a car
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I learned to fly on the DH Chipmunk, based at Yeadon Airfield near Leeds, W Yorkshire.
Yes, it was a lovely aircraft to learn on, loved it to bits, and the canopy never rattled that I remember, to add to a later comment on this thread.
And further on in my career I flew the DH Heron, DC3/C47, the Avro 748 and …the Comet!
But those Comets were the 4 series, not the tragic Comet 1’s that the BOAC picture shows.
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Sorry Guys, I really don’t know how my post landed up here!
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How were the Comets to fly ? One of my favorite airplanes. When I was young I dreamed of getting to someplace Dan-Air flew them so I could ride in one, but it never worked out. Several years ago a Nimrod put on a demonstration at the Houston Air Show. I was quite impressed with the maneuvers they put it through.
David
68 E-type FHC
Beautiful flying characteristics, a stable platform very much over powered which, of course, presented no problems during an engine failure on take off! Yaw was minimal and the aircraft was simply flown through the SID (standard instrument departure) as if on four engines, no need for emergency turns to cater for lost performance, as there was none!
The aircraft was very nice to fly an accurate ILS approach or radar approach ‘on instruments’ i.e. no autopilot.
The only negative part that I remember is the rain shower that all members of the cockpit had to endure during the first half of the descent, due to all the ice that had accumulated on the inside of the fuselage shell melting and being thrown forward by the air conditioning/pressurisation!
We all wore bin bags for the first fifteen minutes!
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