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Post by Samba on Aug 4, 2018 20:54:32 GMT 1
How fitting for our older members, Edwin would have loved this.
In moving posts around to form this new thread, this initial post now 'hangs' without context - it was in response to the Martin Chell photo that now appears as a quote in the post below - the original photo post that prompted the comment still rightly being on the LJLA 'daily thread' for 4th August 2018. Brian, Admin.
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Post by Airbus A346 on Aug 4, 2018 21:54:10 GMT 1
..... LZ-FLL seen half an hour later in the evening sunlight on Stand 41.  LZ-FLL by MARTIN CHELL, on Flickr How fitting for our older members, Edwin would have loved this. ........ that thought also crossed my mind, for those of us who can remember Edwin (aka Mr Blythe) RIP. |
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Post by northbynorthwest on Aug 14, 2018 6:42:52 GMT 1
Somehow, I think that Edwin is looking down with a big smile on his face. He certainly was a character, as many of you who knew him can attest.
There was further comment on this post regarding the cargo operation, which has been moved back as a quote onto the 'Edwin Air Charter' thread where it was originally posted[/I}
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Post by johnoakes on Aug 14, 2018 8:05:36 GMT 1
Dear Edwin,
Never to be forgotten.
A bit eccentric but a gentle soul.
A really keen spotter.
RIP mate.
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Post by viscount on Aug 14, 2018 10:11:23 GMT 1
Amazing how some people stay in your consciousness, while others are totally forgotten. Edwin Blyth I very much remember from my balcony and clubroom 'spotter' days. I can remember treating his pronouncement that the USAF was bringing a C-5A Galaxy to visit Liverpool with total and absolute disbelief. Somehow Edwin always picked up these things long before anyone else . . . . and yes, several months later, in June 1980, the Galaxy did indeed call at Liverpool and Edwin was vindicated.
Edwin stays in my memory for a more somber reason too. In the period 1979-1986 I was very active within the M.A.S. compiling, typing, duplicating the monthly visiting aircraft movements into a 'locals' magazine "EGGP". Edwin's sudden death in 1982 needed to be recorded in the magazine the following week - the first time I had ever had to write an obituary. It might sound an easy task, but it is extremely difficult to get the balance right between sentimentality and factual detail. I've just looked back and found that I'd written the obituary with fair balance, and the picture painted then is very much what I hold in my memory today.
I realise that there will only be a relatively small 'cadre' of nwan members active around Speke in the 70s and early 80s - but all will recall Edwin, who delighted in knowing what was about to happen long before information was released. He would be absolutely 'tickled pink' that a rare and distinctive aircraft was operating from Liverpool Airport bearing his name proudly in large letters on the nose. However, he would have certainly known about it several months earlier than we did on this forum though! If the younger readers would permit some thread drift for a few moments:
Before I finished as editor of "EGGP" there were further obituaries to Nick Westhead, Mike Rainbow (who showed me that to have a disability didn't mean he was disabled), Mr Jim Keen, and in the years afterwards Mike Parker, Tony Wilson and Clive Campbell. In very much more recent times, contemporaries of mine, spotters active in the 1970s and 1980s have passed on too, Ian Roach, Graeme Thomson, Brian Billington, Phil Duckett, Cliff Woosey and Tony Williams. All I remember well in my quieter reflective moments.
If this post triggers more comment/memories, I'll move to the more appropriate 'Nostalgia' section.
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Post by bulldog on Aug 14, 2018 10:44:36 GMT 1
Well said Brian
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Post by ronturner on Aug 15, 2018 7:07:12 GMT 1
I remember Edwin, very well indeed and I too immediately thought of him when this Edwin thread started a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if the Edwin company realise what good vibes they have stirred up?
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Post by viscount on Aug 15, 2018 9:50:37 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 11:18:50 GMT 1
I too remember Edwin, from our earliest days in the clubroom at at Hangar 50. Always well turned-out - and Brian is right about Edwin's rumours. We (including Phil Butler), used to laugh them off, but whether he was psychic or not, we shall never know! There was no doubting his enthusiasm though and his dedication to the hobby. When I saw the name 'Edwin Air' it was the first thought which came into my mind. It's an unusual name (especially today), and it would be interesting to know the origin of it.
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Post by Samba on Aug 15, 2018 13:01:54 GMT 1
I remember when Edwin started telling everyone about some new Post Office flights that would
stop in Speke transfer mail from one to another and depart back to their base, of course people
didn't believe him and it was just another Eddy rumour, but surprise surprise Spokes from Speke
started and lasted many years bringing in vital jobs and revenue to the region.
RIP my friend.
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Post by philglt on Aug 15, 2018 13:22:34 GMT 1
I too remember Edwin, from our earliest days in the clubroom at at Hangar 50. Always well turned-out - and Brian is right about Edwin's rumours. We (including Phil Butler), used to laugh them off, but whether he was psychic or not, we shall never know! There was no doubting his enthusiasm though and his dedication to the hobby. When I saw the name 'Edwin Air' it was the first thought which came into my mind. It's an unusual name (especially today), and it would be interesting to know the origin of it. The official Facebook page of Edwin Air Cargo says that Edwin was a historic king of the Isle of Man....mystery solved Phil  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 18:08:32 GMT 1
I too remember Edwin, from our earliest days in the clubroom at at Hangar 50. Always well turned-out - and Brian is right about Edwin's rumours. We (including Phil Butler), used to laugh them off, but whether he was psychic or not, we shall never know! There was no doubting his enthusiasm though and his dedication to the hobby. When I saw the name 'Edwin Air' it was the first thought which came into my mind. It's an unusual name (especially today), and it would be interesting to know the origin of it. The official Facebook page of Edwin Air Cargo says that Edwin was a historic king of the Isle of Man....mystery solved Phil Thanks Phil! |
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