"Simon Robbins" wrote:


"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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Si, have you seen any of Geoff Bennet's work?...he paints ASW
scenes mostly of Argus aircraft. A most excellent artist I'd say
too. He originated from your country, served and now has retired
in Canada.

No, I'd not heard of him, but I just did a web search and checked out some
of his work. Very good indeed. Most of the paintings my company commission
are of Nimrods, since that's the primary platform my company produces
equipment for. I'll have to take a look next week when I'm back at work and
see who they're all done by.

Si


Ok Si, I'm quite familiar with the Nimrods. When they replaced
the Shackletons in RAF ASW service they had one here at
Summerside and quite a few of us were given a spin in it. We flew
the Argus in ASW service for the RCAF and Canadian Armed Forces
then and we used to visit back and forth with ASW crews based at
Kinloss Scotland. We did the same to the USN ASW Orions based at
Brunswick Maine too as I'm sure your Nimrods did as well.

I has a look with Google and find that Geoff Bennett doesn't have
much available on the web, no Argus paintings that I found at
all. I'll try to find some examples of his talents. Always
interested in ASW info. Did it for a lot of years with
Lancasters, Neptunes and Argus.

Cheers,

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-Gord.