I thought it went on all the time and only gets reported on when it is a slow news day or they want to bounce something else off the front page.
Is anything else happening in the world they might want to divert attention from?
Cynical? Moi?
Search found 98 matches
- Fri 13 Mar 2020, 9:52 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Oh those Russians
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5011
- Wed 26 Feb 2020, 10:31 am
- Forum: Other UK Airshows and Events
- Topic: Abingdon Air and Country Show 2020
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11710
Re: Abingdon Air and Country Show 2020
Excellent news.
Well done team
Well done team
- Sat 18 Jan 2020, 6:59 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Al Walker
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2429
Al Walker
I am surprised not to have seen this mentioned in here but we lost Alan Walker, ex-OFMC, Memphis Belle, Firebird Aeros Pilot, ‘Just Jane’ taxi pilot and good friend on the afternoon in 4 Jan. For the last couple of months he joined me in suffering from cancer and we were able to give mutual support,...
- Wed 20 Nov 2019, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2249
Re: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
I have that and it had rather too many pages to count as a video.....
- Tue 19 Nov 2019, 3:05 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2249
Re: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
Sadly no, I had found them on YouTube too. The one you’ve linked to, all three links, is the same one produced sometime in the early 2000s. The one I am looking for was also, possibly, called forgotten pilots and even an IMDB search doesn’t come up with it. It had a lot more interviews with women AT...
- Fri 15 Nov 2019, 12:08 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2249
Re: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
So, that’ll be a ‘no’ then .....
- Sun 10 Nov 2019, 1:49 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2249
Old Meridien/Southern TV docu on the ATA
I have been fruitlessly searching for an old docu from about 1983-85 (ish) produced by local ITV on the ATA. I seem to remember it was called The Forgotten Pilots but there was another one produced under the same name much later (poss 2011) and IMBD lists another from 1999, and I am sure this was mu...
- Wed 28 Aug 2019, 12:22 pm
- Forum: Historic Aviation
- Topic: The D Day story
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2494
Re: The D Day story
The museum on the sea front that has been refurbished.
It was much better before.
It was much better before.
- Tue 27 Aug 2019, 11:08 pm
- Forum: Historic Aviation
- Topic: The D Day story
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2494
Re: The D Day story
Allthough it is not relevant to 1944, the combined ticket to the Historic Dockyard and the various attactions (althouth the excellent Mary Rose is extra) is very good value and lasts you a year. You are right, selling the embroidery on it's own may have been difficult. The answer was not to be found...
- Tue 27 Aug 2019, 9:51 pm
- Forum: Historic Aviation
- Topic: The D Day story
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2494
Re: The D Day story
If there was just the embroidery, it would be a better museum, the naffness of the rest overshadows the excellent stitching!
- Tue 27 Aug 2019, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Historic Aviation
- Topic: The D Day story
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2494
Re: The D Day story
I cannot disagree more. You are right about the embroidery, which is stunning, but the museum is a travesty and, in my opinion, one of the worst museums I have been to. It falls into the trap of being scared to tell the full story due to, I assume, political correctness. I would not waste my time go...
- Fri 17 May 2019, 10:22 am
- Forum: Seaside Shows
- Topic: Portsmouth D Day Flypast
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8273
Re: Portsmouth D Day Flypast
Disgruntled, many thanks for that. - and for everyone else, sorry for the thread drift. My dad volunteered a few days before his legal birthday in 1942. His dad had employed him on building repairs which was a reserved occupation but the old man was not happy so he joined up. He said for years that ...
- Thu 16 May 2019, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Seaside Shows
- Topic: Portsmouth D Day Flypast
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8273
Re: Portsmouth D Day Flypast
Thanks, he'd have appreciated that. I was really agreeing with the previous post, this is not about it being an airshow, but the sad fact it is not even really about us in any way either, it is a political back slapping exercise. I find it very sad that some of those few that are left will be denied...
- Thu 16 May 2019, 12:31 pm
- Forum: Seaside Shows
- Topic: Portsmouth D Day Flypast
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8273
Re: Portsmouth D Day Flypast
The level of security in place as a result of the US Presidential visit will also make it close to impossible to see anything worthwhile. It is not even worth visiting the D-Day museum in Portsmouth which is quite appalling since it's (expensive) makeover and it leaves out large portions of the stor...
- Tue 05 Mar 2019, 7:50 pm
- Forum: Farnborough International Airshow
- Topic: No more weekend public show!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 25409
Re: No more weekend public show!
effects wrote:melvyn hiscock wrote:Not surprising.
The rules on overflight are next to impossible there. I am amazed they have not stopped before.
Not at all accurate.
Really? Not according to some people deep within the industry. Perhaps OK if you are going to have the WW1 reenactment but anything bigger is overflying.
- Tue 05 Mar 2019, 6:27 pm
- Forum: Farnborough International Airshow
- Topic: No more weekend public show!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 25409
Re: No more weekend public show!
Not surprising.
The rules on overflight are next to impossible there. I am amazed they have not stopped before.
The rules on overflight are next to impossible there. I am amazed they have not stopped before.
- Wed 26 Dec 2018, 9:31 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Low Level Take Off
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4824
Re: Low Level Take Off
Ooooh can you imagine the 'interview without biscuits' that followed this!
- Wed 26 Dec 2018, 4:57 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Low Level Take Off
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4824
Re: Low Level Take Off
Viv Bellamy once told me he had seen some American pilots come to pick up some Spitfires from Worthy Down. As they took off, they did this whole thing of keeping low and pulling the gear up. There was a general murmer of appreciation but then he saw Jeffrey Quill taxi out and take off, the tail came...
- Sun 02 Sep 2018, 8:29 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: RAFAT: In decline?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13190
Re: RAFAT: In decline?
[quote="XL189"]Perhaps a better comparison photograph would be a Vixen break at somewhere other than Dunsfold where the Sparrows can only perform their "flat" dispaly.
Not quite flat, but rolling.
But it is a good point.
Not quite flat, but rolling.
But it is a good point.
- Mon 13 Aug 2018, 8:39 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Stu Goldspink's son
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1689
Re: Stu Goldspink's son
To everyone that has read this, 522 at the last count, and to every one of you that has donated, thanks so much for responding. When I last looked the total is over £10,000 and, of course, it can go higher. If you have not seen this, please have a look, Jordan was a fantastic guy with a great future...
- Sat 11 Aug 2018, 8:15 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Stu Goldspink's son
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1689
Stu Goldspink's son
Please excuse this but, for many reasons, I think it is important. Many of you will have seen or even know Stu Goldspink who is not only one of the better warbird pilots were have in the UK, but is also a genuinely decent bloke and a good friend. What is less well know is that Stu's son Jordan had b...
- Tue 07 Aug 2018, 11:38 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Practice Displays on airshow days.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1324
Re: Practice Displays on airshow days.
As Dom alludes, if you have a CAA DA or a military approval you can practice in public. If you don't have one, or you are validating for one show, that is not public. I practiced mine over areas of open land with a road as a datum and never below 500ft agl. Final practice was done at Rendcomb with M...
- Tue 03 Jul 2018, 5:32 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Display line distance
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4656
Re: Display line distance
At several shows I have worked at we have had trouble getting pilots to come into the line.
- Tue 03 Jul 2018, 5:30 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Display line distance
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4656
Re: Display line distance
Mooshie1956 wrote:
Will you please inform Southport then that the tide makes no difference to when they can hold there airshow. Tide is very much a factor in when they can hold there show.
That is more to do about access to the beach not being restricted, nothing to do with tide lines.
- Tue 03 Jul 2018, 12:00 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Display line distance
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4656
Re: Display line distance
As far as I know the tide also needs to be taken into account when they are calculating the distance for the display line, which usually results on the display line being calculated based on a low tide. No, if the crowd line is defined, and there is an exclusion on the beach, the line will not need...