Civilian Aviation

These are the winners of the September 2017 SPOTM, the subject was 'Tails' we had 16 excellent entries (some with very appropriate titles too!)

this month's winner was 'The Mighty Oz' (Mark Osborne) with his excellent line up of autogyros at Old Warden - congratulations Mark.

(he even got the tail (and rest) of a red kite in the pic for good measure

in second place was andygolfer (aka me!) with the British airways and it's predecessors at Duxford
3011 tales of the evolution of an airline by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

We had 2 entries in joint 3rd place,
F6Man with his Tales of two tails at Manchester
IMG_9991 by F6MAN, on Flickr

and Retro11 with the Eurovision Tails contest taken at Aberdeen.
EUROVISION TAILS CONTEST by RETRO 11, on Flickr

well done to both of them and thanks to everybody who entered and or voted. the full selection of entries can be viewed here:
http://www.civilianaviation.co.uk/forum ... 10&t=28919

andrew

Thanks Andy. I actually won something without using an Airlander photo! Thanks everyone that voted.

TheMightyOz wrote:Thanks Andy. I actually won something without using an Airlander photo! Thanks everyone that voted.

makes a change but no doubt you have a good one for October SPOTM!

I'll alter your rank in a moment as well.

well done by the way- it's a great pic

andy

andygolfer wrote:

TheMightyOz wrote:Thanks Andy. I actually won something without using an Airlander photo! Thanks everyone that voted.

makes a change but no doubt you have a good one for October SPOTM!

andy

Technically she's (just) heavier than air and uses aerodynamic lift, might dig out a photo of something that's really LTA.

Great shots by the winners.......... but didn't I do well?