14 April 2014
The Vintage Aircraft Club’s best-attended event of the year so far saw no less than 90 vintage and classic aircraft fly into the annual Daffodil Rally at Fenland in Lincolnshire on Saturday 12 April, with each crew departing with a batch of the yellow blooms.
Show-stoppers were two rarely seen Percival Gull variants, with a Mew Gull and Vega Gull parked side-by-side, recalling days when Lincolnshire residents Alex Henshaw and his father Pop owned a similar brace three quarters of a century ago.
The fly-in marked the public debut of David Beale’s Mew Gull, G-HEKL, built from original drawings as an exact reproduction of Charles Gardiner’s 1937 Kings Cup Air Race winner. It was joined by David Hulme’s 1937 Vega Gull which had flown in from Biggin Hill for the event.
The next VAC events are the Northern Rally at Sherburn-in-Elmet on 14 June and ‘the big one’, the VAC’s 50th Anniversary celebrations at Popham, Hampshire on 26-27 July.
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