Picked this old Flight Photo up in Manston History Museum. What a slab of a plane the Blackburn Rippon was!!, just imagine flying above the wave tops, with a battleship filling the view between the cabane strutts while you try and launch a 'tin fish'!!!
Finding the "right" aircraft for me
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*March 2014 *My search for an aircraft to buy began around 2005.
It had been about four years after a Marchetti SF260 that I and a few other
pilots flew r...
11 years ago