andyfr1968 772 Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 ........... I hope I'm there when he unwraps that!!! Quote Link to post
Daz 7 563 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Happy Birthday Good Sir, All the Best on another year Older and Wiser Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 (edited) MY GOODNESS I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS..... :icon_redface: :icon_redface: Thank you all, every one of you fine lads. I had a busy but productive day and a good dinner with my business partner and me dear old mum! Fry. Apart from working in music, I'm also a professional military aviation artist of a certain repute. Put "Simon Atack aviation art" into google and images and you'll see some examples of what I do in the daytime, when I'm not shooting or gigging. New website. www.simonatack.com Is to be launched in November and we are busy building stuff into it. And we are working a lot with Flypast magazine, hence the meeting yesterday. So I'll get a "Birthday Shoot" another day. (Weather's pretty crap here anyway!) I don't know what to say and Thank You isn't really enough. But, Thank You, Gentlemen all, who sent such kind messages. It's really touched me. ...and Archie......... ..........Oh aye! The very best to you all. Simon X Edited October 11, 2011 by pianoman 1 Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 ........... Oh yeah! If Carlsberg did avatars.............. Archie would be designing them! Cheers mate. Simon Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 (edited) :Sreaming with laughter: Nice Spit's bud How about some Buccaneers? (I live (ed) in Brough for 25+ years) Tony Edited October 11, 2011 by Phantom Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Thank you Tony mate! A great aircraft. I worked with a Buccaneer S2B bomber unit at RAF Laarbruch, Germany for a three-year tour, during my Regt. service. 16 Sqn. commisioned me to paint them on anti-shipping excercises in 1983 and I got to fly in the Navigator's back seat a few times! Amazing to experience that. I flew in a few Tornado GR1a too but, that felt as though it didn't have the physical grunt of the Bucc at low level. That was when we were truly a Royal Air Force to bloody reckon with! Simon Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Thank you Tony mate! I got to fly in the Navigator's back seat a few times! Amazing to experience that. Simon, you lucky, lucky man! I'd ahve given an arm and a leg to do that! However I got to Burn my hand on the engine, when they flew a Bucc back home a good few years ago! (posing for a photo). They had to bring in a ships arrestor wire and lay it across the runway because they built a crap load of offices at the end of the runway! I flew in a few Tornado GR1a too but, that felt as though it didn't have the physical grunt of the Bucc at low level. That was when we were truly a Royal Air Force to bloody reckon with! Simon Amen to that! The GR1 was/is an awsome aircraft, but just couldn't match the presance of the Bucc Quote Link to post
Daz 7 563 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 A Man of many Talent's Simon, Superb art work Sir, Always love paintings of the Older RAF Planes Especially painting's of Spitfires have to be My Favourite . regards Daz 1 Quote Link to post
secretagentmole 1,701 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Simon just imagine what we could have done if they had kept the TSR going.... 1 Quote Link to post
markha 99 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Happy Birthday I hope its a good-en. Ill look forward to browsing through your new web site too, ready for November? a fitting tribute would be 11/11/11/11 then 1 Quote Link to post
thursodog 353 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Happy birthday Simon. Chris. Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Thanks Mark and Chris. Cheers Simon Quote Link to post
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