ELVINGTON

The Yorkshire Air Museum just outside York hosts this event every year, and is well worth a visit regardless of whether EMLRA are there or not. The Museum features, amongst other things, a fully restored WWII control tower and a permanent exhibition dedicated to Barnes Wallis, inventor of (to name but a few) the Welllington Bomber, the dam-busting bouncing bomb and most of the other unusual bombs used by 617 Squadron to do unusual things from unusual heights. Wayne not only managed to turn up in a Land Rover that actually belongs to himself, he broke it as well.

Rapier 127", SII 109 Ambulance (Kevin McGeough), Unmentionable, Mine-protected SIII 109 (Edward Johnson), SIII Lightweight (Sue Cummings), SII 109 GS, SIIA 109 GS (Wayne Davies).

The burning question is - who sneaked the Austin Gypsy in without asking? The following morning EMLRA moved en masse to a different location, leaving the unattended Gypsy in situ.

Report: Mike Allmey
Photo: Sue Cummings