Lightning Preservation Group - Update A meeting was held at Bruntingthorpe today involving David Walton, the LPG and other Cold War Jet owners and operating teams. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the future of the aircraft remaining at Bruntingthorpe following the sale of C Walton Ltd to C...

Sadly, by removing Take Flight the Littlers have removed the most vocal opponents of the airfield redevelopment. Stratford District Council seem to have changed their tune too. A great shame.

Sadly, this saga over Wellesbourne is far from over...

https://stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/we ... hem-17628/

A huge shame if this is the end, as indeed it looks like. Bruntingthorpe, the aircraft and their fantastic hardworking teams and indeed David Walton have given me some fantastic aviation memories down the years.

A HUNDRED pounds to hear an aeroplane engine run for a few minutes. You could comfortably fly to some European shows for that sort of money. Perhaps they have no interest in ‘flying to European Shows’ and would much rather listen to 558 for a few minutes. But then you’ve never liked other people’s ...

Mike Beachy Head, founder of Thunder City, has passed away.

Blue skies Sir.

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Looking at the state of the Nimrod's rudder, I presumed this was why she wasn't run...

A predictable reply, taking no notice of the difference in publicly displaying the aircraft and an A to B ferry movement, the 1st of many I suspect, as I said place this aircraft outside the UK and the issues would be overcome Really? You think so? Absolutely no chance. It's not outside the UK so w...

Can we please stop all speculation and guess work for crying out loud! Why cant I?, That's the point of the public domain forum isn't it?. This isn't an exclusive place for the high almighty. Anyway I'm asking for information/clarification on the operational use of a Gnat at LL in poor weather pull...

2e1var wrote:

Rule 27 wrote:Makes you wonder why they sold their Lightning in the first place.

The article suggests the weather got the better of it.

Seen it up close quite a lot in 2010, it was in a bit of a state then. At least it's still in one piece.

Wow! Fantastic shots of a fantastic bird!

474, 558 and Typhoon topside are superb!

Great shots A question - could a plane that is able to taxi in theory take off? I know they can't for various safety/airworthyness reasons, but in theory could that Lightning pilot have just opened the throttle and gone? Pardon my ignornace, I don't know enough about the 'suck squeeze bang blow' to...

Sat on the A41 for nearly 1hr and a half completely stationary before seizing the initiative and heading down single track lanes to get to the show where I was told I couldn't get in. Fair enough, I never had a ticket, but 10pm on a Saturday, when I was in bed to get an early start to get to Cosford...

...to have caught these scrotes in the act...

My money is on people, sick people, not anyone to do with Islam, trying to stir up violence after what has happened the past week.

They should be ashamed of themselves. And hung.

Just my opinion.

Popped into the golf club last week, her nose looked very clean up to aft of the nose roundel compared to the rest of her. Work ongoing?

DanH wrote:...the main ones I missed out on were the SR71, Lightning and F-14....

These are my top 3 I have to say. When did an F-14 last carry out a flying display in the UK?

Nothing at all wrong with Dan's commentary, although I must admit commentary at any event I go to whether it be motor racing, airshows etc is always in the background for me. You never know though, as Dan has said in the past that the wider aviation enthusiast community should pay more attention to ...

Was up there last week for a look around the museum for the first time, you're doing a fine job of the repaint! I was struck by how well she looked in general, condition wise. You can tell she is very well looked after.

Keep up the good work!

toom317 wrote:Did the ground crew not have to screw the cover shut? I wouldn't have thought you'd want that cover flapping about in flight. Then again if it was a real bucket of sunshine mission, they may just go with it open.

IIRC, it's spring loaded so as the lead drops away it snaps shut.

Also, let's not forget the sacrifice this guy has made, staying with that thing until it hit the ground, putting his life before anyone on the ground had he chosen to leave via Martin Baker.

A true hero.

Absolutely bloody awful news.

Rest in Peace. My sincere condolences to his friends, his family and his colleagues.

Taken from the Liberty Belle website: "The crew actually unloaded bags, then had the horrible task of watching the aircraft slowly burn while waiting for the fire trucks to arrive. There were high hopes that the fire would be extinguished quickly and the damage would be repairable. Those hopes ...

It is a great shame but I note two things that niggle, first it didn`t crash, it seems to have made a perfect landing, and why were the firemen standing around watching it burn for soooooooo long? I very much doubt it was intentional, i'm sure they'd have been giving hell for leather to get there t...

Heartbreaking pictures...

Very happy everyone's safe, some job the pilot did getting her down as well by the sounds of things.

Such a shame to see just how badly damaged she is though, very sad...