Thanks to Old Warden (God bless ‘em) and Duxford Showcase days, 2021 turned out much better than it could have been. Thanks to visits to Headcorn and Biggin Hill as well over the summer, I saw 14 or 15 different Spitfires in the air this year.

Six, apparently, as well as the two with his wife.

A blatant cheat, a cocaine junkie, an alcoholic, a tax dodger and fathered several illegitimate children, at least one of which he refused to take responsibility for for years. But hey, he could kick a bag of wind around a field, so I guess that makes it all okay.

TEXANTOMCAT wrote: ↑

Wed 25 Nov 2020, 3:50 pm

...there is a body out there in the Oregon wilderness with £200K next to it!

So you're saying a bank teller did him in for making them change all those $ bills into pound notes?

CTTS

Canberra To The Skip.

TheMaster wrote: ↑

Mon 16 Nov 2020, 9:44 am

Leeds East/Church Fenton I would prefer logistically, 1700m runway, more grass for parking, M1 close etc.

Nick Grey publicly said that they were looking for a location as close to Cambridge as possible. The frozen Northern wastelands out beyond Peterborough don't tick that box.

The technical gadgets and DRS are the same for everyone, so I don’t see how that gives a particular driver an advantage. Schumacher also had plenty of technical gadgets, legal or otherwise, at his disposal. And as to team orders, it’s laughable to suggest that Schumacher’s team mates were allowed to...

verreli wrote: ↑

Sun 15 Nov 2020, 12:05 pm

A demonstration of car importance.

And Bottas, with identical equipment?

Watch Stroll throw it all away tomorrow afternoon.

GeeRam wrote: ↑

Sat 14 Nov 2020, 3:23 pm

Isn't it about time they changed their name?

Vulcan To The Sewageworks?

The permit lapsed in 2008, so that would suggest it was last flown a year or so before that. The VTTS website mentions it suffering an engine failure in 2007. It was certainly flying at the Coventry air show in 2003

It was £12 for evening shows and £15 for Sunday shows for SVAS members not that long ago.

GeeRam wrote: ↑

Fri 13 Nov 2020, 9:13 am

I assume, someone is putting two and two together and coming up with five.....

I believe 'bernarde' has links with VTTS

PT and Flying Legends. An ‘interesting’ concept.

Neither of Kermit’s Tempests are ever likely to fly under his ownership. The project has effectively been abandoned (like the Spitfire return to flight, getting the B-25 back in the air, the Benoist, the 2 DH-4s, and many more). Andy Salter, who was leading the restoration, retired and moved away an...

It wasn’t so long ago that SVAS member tickets were half price. Now the saving is not much more than 10% when you factor in the cost of a parking space.

rob68 wrote: ↑

Fri 06 Nov 2020, 11:47 pm

F1 at Silverstone is currently same weekend...

According to the 2021 F1 calendar published today, the British GP at Silverstone is on 18th July, not 11th

The pricing is still very reasonable. I was going to say ‘compared with other live events’ but I suspect there won’t be many of those in the first half of 2021 to compare a £21-£34 ticket price against.

I expect quite a number will cancel for the same reason, and of those several will never come back.

Lovely shots, not many of these flying now. As I've heard it, the engine is more valuable than the airframe (in demand for use in Storch and Bf108 projects), so any kind of serious engine trouble and the aircraft is grounded. It doesn't help that the engine has to be very carefully handled and that...

They already have a conference room in AirSpace that is used for this purpose, and also use the so-called ‘conservation area’ at the front of the hangar for corporate events.

Not to mention the fact that the museum's current policy is something called 'reducing the conservation footprint', in other words getting rid of more than they add. At least 20 IWM airframes have been disposed of in recent years.

That's a shame, I was planning on visiting in 2 weeks on our way up to Lincoln.

It seems that the aircraft is stranded overnight on Loch Ness with engine issues, with the crew having been taken to shore by RNLI lifeboat