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Today I was mostly sat at the seaside...
Topic Started: Aug 23 2012, 07:23 PM (1,045 Views)
peebeep
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...watching aeroplanes, including this one:

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I've decided that wing walkers are loopy, but you gotta luv 'em:

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i take it that was Clacton? the place of my husbands birth!
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Yes, we were at Clackers and the sun was shining. :coolio:

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Reaching for the skies:

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All images by my son, Andy Brown.

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cracking Mark has still got family down there (by the way hes just registered on here) and we travel down occasionally are you local to there?
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I'm based in Chavsford, sorry Chelmsford. ;) Great Baddow to be precise, which is fortunately just far enough outside of the weekend war zone otherwise known as the town centre so as not to cause us any trouble.

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i grew up in clacton, within walking distance of the pier, my sister live in colchester (birch) and bother live near walton on sea

i remeber clacton air show well as a kid, as my dad run the sea fishing club for a time so we were always on the beach

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I have visited Birch a few times, but always at about 2000'-3000' altitude! If you have a look on Google Maps/Earth you will see that close to the village is a very large triangular field that used to be an airfield with tarmac runways. It was built during WWII, never used very much and reverted back to agricultural use soon after the war ended. A popular spot for instructors to take student pilots to learn how to handle an aeroplane. :whistle:

We often used to visit Clacton when I was a kid. My brother-in-law built a bungalow up by the sea wall at Jaywick, which we would use during the summer hols, happy days! I was reading a piece the other week about how run down Jaywick is these days. In their later years my parents liked to stay at one of the static caravan parks at St Osyth. I always found the Martello towers fascinating when I was young.

I was telling my son today about how we would look out for the MV Mi Amigo, easily recognised by the tall transmitter aerial. I used to listen to Radio Caroline, then North Sea International on my little tranny, even during the period when the GPO were jamming them (boo, hiss!)

You've made me go all rose tinted speccy, the sun was always shining in those days!

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so may memories, even in 89 when jaywick was nearly washed away, i htink it still as its sunday market, thats about it

i even remember butlins which is now a housing complex,

one of the martello towers further noths near maningtree is a 'secret bunker museum' its even sign posted as a 'secret bunker'

how small the world is

we must speak more on the subject but im off to work as im up at 6 for work
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Butlin's, of course! That used to be down near the airfield IIRC? We were parked in the meadow next to the airfield today and would have walked past where Butlin's used to be on the way to the Prom. As you say, it's all housing, plus a big car park at the end of the Prom.

Will have to go and have a look at the Secret Bunker some time.

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Would be interested to see someone wing walking on the Vulcan! :wooo:

Saw a nice old dear on the tv earlier this year who was disappointed the docs had ordered her to cease wing walking and parachuting because they thought at 85 it was time she stopped such pastimes, bless her.
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I'm planning on doing a tandem skydive to celebrate my sixtieth. Only four years to go! Might see if I can sneak one in before then... :hmm:

Personally, I don't see why the young 'uns should have all the fun. Wrinkly power rules! :wicked:

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peebeep
Aug 23 2012, 10:42 PM
I'm planning on doing a tandem skydive to celebrate my sixtieth. Only four years to go! Might see if I can sneak one in before then... :hmm:

Personally, I don't see why the young 'uns should have all the fun. Wrinkly power rules! :wicked:

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Good luck with that Paul and "respeck", even though I'm very firmly in the "Why-jump-out-of-a-perfectly-serviceable-aeroplane? :shrug: " camp. :D

"I used to listen to Radio Caroline, then North Sea International ..." Happy memories of my youth too, right up to the days when they broadcast in Dutch as Radio Mi Amigo Internationale during the day and Caroline in the evenings.

Back on topic, great pics and thanks for posting. :thumbsup:
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Aug 23 2012, 10:42 PM
I'm planning on doing a tandem skydive to celebrate my sixtieth.

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Good for you, Paul! Didn't know you had any aspirations in that direction.

My Dad did one of these from 14000ft in Australia last year - aged 78! Got a great bit of video of his face ending up on top of his head on the way down! He said it was about sixty years since he packed his last parachute in the RAF so he thought he'd better get round to using one...

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Aug 24 2012, 06:58 PM
Didn't know you had any aspirations in that direction.
Did one a few years ago, need to go back for more!

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Mrs PB wouldn't let me learn how to skydive on my own though. :crying:

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Now thats the ticket Paul. :thumbsup:

Have done a few of those me self in the past, plus para,ed down the old chut.

You cannot discribe the feeling, but tally ho. :D
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Sep 7 2012, 10:41 PM
You cannot discribe the feeling, but tally ho. :D
It didn't go down very well with Mrs PB when I said it was better than sex. I didn't actually mean that, but if you've done skydiving you know what I mean! ;)

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:hmm:

So, would that mean having sex while skydiving is the ultimate activity?
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;Hmmm', Well Walrus that would be telling,'but yes'. :D

Edit, when your as old as me lol. :D
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But funny you should talk about the seaside.
I was walking me dog on the towans here in Cornwall, near St Ives, well over the bay.

And minding the rabbit holes :wooo: .

When,'I could kick me self' I sore two o them helecopters that harry fly's there in afgany land come by at eye level, 'they waved to'.
With out me camera :wooo: ugh.

I normally take my camera with me, but there you go.
Edited by foxy, Sep 7 2012, 11:21 PM.
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