Skybirds.

[angelreader]

Graham,your postings get more interesting every time ! good to hear that you have plenty of photographs and are prepared to fill the gaps by taking some more,GR will guide you through the procedure on how to upload them better than I can ever explain,it is easy once you have done a test picture.
I never realised that there have been so many publications on Skybirds ? the ones that you mention are all new to me,I think that reproducing some of them would be a good idea to give them a wider audience as many of us have no hope of finding such rarities as those you mention.
Regarding famous people who collected Skybirds one was non other than Neville Duke,my boyhood hero who flew amongst other lovely aircraft the record breaking all red Hawker Hunter WB188,he mentions a Skybirds model aerodrome in his autobiography which got him interested in aviation as a young boy,the rest as they say is history.
Keep up the good work displaying your models as you do,the good thing about this is you never now what people in the crowd can offer you and come up with ?
Really look forward to seeing those JHS originals,he was certainly a gifted youngster,I understand that from the money he made from designing he learned to fly at a very early age,all great stuff for a budding aviator all those years ago.
One last thing,some years ago I was at an airshow somewhere and there was a stand selling paperwork and odd items from the JHS estate,I purchased a scale drawing of the Dart Kitten aeroplane,it was drawn in typical Skybirds style with no templates for the fuselage etc,he never lost his toch as a draughtsman and artist,I wonder if he was self taught ? perhaps you know the answer to that one,also do you have any pictures of the factory or assembly lines for the kits,I seem to remember that there was one taken.
Barry.

[grwebster]

Graham, about the website, you already have one here. I just set it up.
It is now a separate SKYBIRDS forum on this site and I can make you and Barry the moderators. That way all the info you have collected and want to share and all the photos can be accessed easily and simply. Barry can help upload the photos and any other info.
You probably found us here via google or another search engine and anyone else searching for Skybirds will end up here, too.

[atalanta59]

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