Dennis was kind enough to send me these great shots (at his own expense) for inclusion into my site, I have added a brief note about him and would like to thank him for his time and effort in geting these photos to me..........thanks Dennis

 

Greetings.

A link lead me to your site just now.  I am a serious, aged, plastic modeller and the A-26 has always been a special to me - among several types.

 

Well done on your site. I glanced at your About Me section and was a little surprised that you are UK based and have an interest in the A-26 - I didn't read the info very closely yet, perhaps I would have discovered your mother was on an A-26 base flightpath.

 

I have a daughter who emigrated from here (Edmonton, Alberta) to Loughbourough, Leicestershire, UK and because of that I have been fortunate enough to visit Duxford.

 

Anyway, the photos I am attaching were taken by me at Edson, Alberta, Canada in September 2003 (I think).  I swear the pilot saw me and did a combat take off. I was impressed!  It is scanned from a slide. I also have plenty of slides of another Airspray AC - the pilot let me do a crawl through for detail shots at a local airshow. 

 

My own interest in military aviation arose, I believe, when my older cousins built me a balsa wood and tissue fighter of some sort when I was five - then I went on to carve them myself from solid balsa.  (I was five in 1945).  Our home was under the flight path of the Winnipeg Airport, also an RCAF training base - mostly B-25 navagation trainers; I do remember the excitement of a Vampire.  And I spent some summers near Gimli - Harvards galore every morning.  Including my cousin later - he was eventually killed on take off  in an imbalanced York here in Edmonton, on a suppy run to the DEW line.  I am short sighted so I became an Engineer.  I took flying lessons but I could not see paying all that money for something that only went 100 knots.  So I model (I will attach a photo. -  I go from Fokker D VII to modern jets, of which I don't take many photos. So the A-7 is the best photo I have on file.).

 

I dispatched the CD by Canada Post this morning.  If I had known it was that easy - as in, the outlet had bubble wrap mailers for CD's ready-to-use - I would have sent the package two weeks ago. Please let me know that it arrived - give it two weeks.

 

I do hope you find the photos worthy.  Did I tell you the flight photos aren't that sharp owing to the shutter speed/aperature I used?  But the details look good to me.  I presume you can do the captions as needed, but I can do them if you want.

 

The whole thing probably cost in the order of $40 CDN.  Please just make a donation to a worthy non-religious charity in the UK instead of a remittance to me.  How about an aircraft preservation organization or the RSPCA?

 

Dennis

 

 

 

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