The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Posting may be sporadic, due to bandwidth restrictions imposed by both my employer and my OH, although I will do my best not to put the skids under anything.

Welcome to the west!

Dave

Welcome Yorkie370,

Now that you have seen the sense of humour which prevails on AiX in addtion to ALL the great information, we can all breath a collective sigh:roll:

I'm Julian, aka Bluesteel.

I come from an ex RAF family and my father was a Private Pilot and Gliding Instructor too, so I spent much of my childhood in and around RAF and Civilian airfields all over the UK. I then learned to glide and later took a PPL, again expanding the number of airfields flown from and visited. So this is a big nostalgia trip for me

I'm going to have a browse now and, if I can find any relevant photos, will post and/or comment in the appropriate aerodrome thread.

Julian

Welcome bluesteel,

Any photographs that you may have of airfields will be welcome on AiX.

Welcome to AiX Julian "Bluesteel"

Hope you enjoy the forum, I'll look forward to seeing some of your posts too!

Have fun!

Hello Everyone.

I first became interested in WWII airfields when I visited Liitle Easton Lodge (near Dunmow, Essex) with the wife a few years back. In the dovecote was a small collection of photographs and memorabilia relating to the airfield there, and I couldn't believe how little now remains of the airfield. When I got home, I started trawling the web for information about the wartime airfields and have been obsessed ever since !

I visited the museum at Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk this year. The museum and the people there were fantastic, and it was a great feeling to actually go into some original airfield buildings. I remember standing on the top of the control tower and imagining what it would be like to see the B-17's queueing on the perimeter track and then thundering along the runway and into the air.

I stumbled upon AIX after visiting REF's splendid web site, and I'm glad to see that there are many others with similar interests.

I live in South East Essex and would love to visit some airfields, but I don't know how to get permission from the landowners. I expect many of you do this quite often, so I'd love to "tag along" if anyone is planning to visit any of the Essex or East Anglian airfields.

Cheers,

Steve

Welcome to the site you'll find that you'll get obsessed, like some people have a bombing range obsession at the moment, mine is RAF Desborough.

Hello SXS
There is getting to be quite a gathering of members from Essex.
Welcome to the forum:).