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CaptainMike1

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2009, 13:28:38 »
I waited in the rain until 4pm yesterday, in the drizzle and gave up and went home!
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The Ferry Man

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2009, 13:43:40 »
Quote from: CaptainMike1 on July 27, 2009, 13:28:38
I waited in the rain until 4pm yesterday, in the drizzle and gave up and went home!

It was a shame because The weather reports said yesterday was supposed to be the same weather as Saturday (nice) but when I left it was cloudy, and the sun just never cam out, and the wind picked up and it just drizzled...
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Wave Music

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2009, 14:17:12 »
Great shots there, Mike! :2thumbs: 
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Cat320DL

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2009, 14:47:15 »
Nice shots Mike. :2thumbs:
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The Ferry Man

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2009, 11:02:01 »
Okay a few pictures from me:

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2667.jpg)

Advertising Poster at Gosport

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2672.jpg)

The vintage open-top double decker bus doing the Gosport-Hovercraft Museum service

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2687.jpg)

View of The Princess Anne, taken from the Open-top Double Decker Bus

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2688.jpg)

The Princess Margaret from Bus

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2696.jpg)

The SR.N6 Twin prop on the beach

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2834.jpg)

The Open bow door on The Princess Anne

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2952.jpg)

Propeller Pylon seen from the cockpit

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2944.jpg)

The Cockpit of The Princess Anne

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2957.jpg)

Cockpit switches and dials

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2970.jpg)

'Drivers' view coming off the Princess Anne

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2712.jpg)

Part of a SR.N5, undergoing a restoration

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2714.jpg)

The main body of the SR.N5

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2722.jpg)

BH7 cockpit

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2720.jpg)

BH7

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2748.jpg)

Need some skirt...? (Probably from the SR.N4 Swift)

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2812.jpg)

Model of the Twin Prop SR.N6

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2977.jpg)

The Former Sultan of Oman's hovercraft

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2995.jpg)

One of the James Bond Hovercraft

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_3118.jpg)

One of the Scrapheap Challenge craft

(http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Portsmouth%20and%20Hovershow%202009%2026th%20July%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_2759.jpg)

A small racing Hovercraft
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Wave Music

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2009, 12:52:38 »
Great shots, TFM! :2thumbs:
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SRN4

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #31 on: June 08, 2011, 18:11:04 »
Hi guys ;D i just wanted to say i am at most of the hovershows because my grandad is a member  :captain:
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The Ferry Man

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Re: Hovershow 50 - Lee-on-the-Solent July 2009
« Reply #32 on: June 08, 2011, 18:18:12 »
Ahh nice - Great place the Hovercraft Museum :)
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