AIR PORTRAITS' photograph shows Desmond Penrose's immaculate Arrow Active Mk II near its Old Warden base on December 12, 1984.

Alex Henshaw's Active Mk I before he took it over.

The author looking somewhat lost in the cockpit of the Active Mk I.

The roomy cockpit of the Active Mk I. The metal strip across the centre section trailing edge was the aileron linkage. Frise-type ailerons were fitted to the top wings only.

“Arrow arrow arrow, what’s all this then?”. A laughing policeman and the author survey the burnt out Active in a field near Covenham.