A Lovely early summer evening a year ago. Glass of wine in hand I sit in the garden listening to the birds, watching the insects and stroking my dog.
Then the peace is shattered, an aircraft is approaching, the engine sound was strange, yet familiar,
eventually the aircraft hove into view,. I gazed up as a Fokker DR1 flew over head. it appeared to be Voss' aircraft if my rusty knowledge of markings was anything to go by.
As it went by my wife waved at it, the pilot waved back and circled round, I stood wondering if I was in some strange time warp as the aircraft circled. pilot waving,it's not every day a triplane circles round you! It then flew off to the north and waggled it's wings.
I later found out the aircraft was a replica flown out of a local airfield.
A real surprise to see it. I have been lucky enough to see it again on a number of occasions since.
I believe it is flown at a number of air shows in the UK and has been used in a BBC documentry.
Wow...that's really an "experience!!
Where that all happened? The place I mean,I used to live outside of London,Uxbridge Middlesex and my house back garden (well my uncle's house to be honest!) was at the back of the RAF compound,where they used to control all fighters during the Battle of England in Summer 1940,You know that big underground room with all the WAAFs moving little flags over the Southern England map? And a few miles from there there is Northolt Airbase,home of several RAF Squadrons and I have seen during celebrations,flights of Spits pass above very low...thunderous sound,shivers...even a Lancaster once,but never biplanes unfortunately...