Mike wrote:Their problems seem to run far deeper than just funding. They've already had half a million quid of LIBOR fine money specifically to sort the Pegasus engines, plus I understand some of the new parts were also paid for by an outside donor on top of this, and have utterly failed to solve the issues. They have a hangar full of broken aeroplanes, and at their recent event at Old Warden were unable to field anything more than a single Chipmunk. Very sad to see how far the RNHF have fallen from their heyday in the 80s where they were regularly able to field multiple aircraft almost every weekend in the summer months.
Indeed, since civvy "ownership" they really have struggled. As you say back in the day, the familiar Swordfish /SeaFury / Firefly trio along with the BBMF were the only "warbirds" many shows would get... Such a shame.
