danspuggti wrote: ↑

Mon 17 Jul 2023, 6:43 pm

Great catch. Outriggers doing their job!

x2 on the catch. Didn’t risk my camera but was watching from what looked like the same spot of the eastern threshold. Held my breath for a moment but when he recovered it, was hoping someone had got the shot.

Aircraft aside, my only real negative comment regarding everything else would be the lack of water filling points, although that might have just been me missing them! I only saw one and that was in the viewing village (I'm sure there were two there last year) but it was tucked away in the corner be...

where else can you see 7 airworthy Hurricanes plus the only flying Hawker Fury under one roof...? Definitely agree with that I just think the exhibition element could have seen better curation, for example keep the Nimrod in place and position it with the Sea Hurricane? It's not so much the space i...

Intrigued now as to how it has all been re-arranged, the Sea Hurricane looks to have gone where the Fury was. Mind you cant help thinking the whole layout is/was a missed opportunity. Granted they had not got the same technical scope of the Spitfire marks from last year but it just seemed very ad-ho...

Still a bit of a shock to see him as the mystery guest on the Ch4 Big Fat Quiz of the Year last night.....

Definitely been a year he won't forget no matter what comes next.

It's been something of an Annus Horribulus for the team. Aircrew scandals, ageing jets, birdstrikes, fewer jets displaying, and an underwhelming, stale display. If the Reds to are to have a future, they need to take a good look at themselves and reset in all aspects for 2023. Well you and I have ve...

Really like the close up of the Cat with the dark sky behind it.

In the US on business which included a free weekend that coincided with the return of Dover AFB's airshow, Thunder over Dover. Totally free and well organised event, 75000 visitors over the two days. Temps hit 95 degrees on the Saturday which meant human silhouettes for the static as everyone sought...

Happened to be in the US recently and was able to attend the Thunder over Dover airshow at Dover AFB in Delaware where I saw the following, a modern T1 Jayhawk, in WW2 colours and markings. First thing I thought of was Grandad and his models, not so WHIF after all :grinning: . https://live.staticfli...

Not just WHIF on the markings. Never seen a DH Beaver with wheel spats and Grandad has also changed the engine as well as the cowling looks like it might house a Bristol Mercury or something similar with those cylinder head bulges. Love to see a side view of the A5 from the first set as I’d like to ...

That is excellent Derek, a real rarity as well by the look of the box or is that loft longevity at work? I keep toying with the idea of WWI options but my fear of biplanes and rigging is strong, perhaps if you make your current builds theme a WW1 option I might be tempted to join in. Again, great bu...

The cost may well be quoted to be £900,000, however ALL aircraft must undergo a full repaint every X number of years. (Figure varies, generally every 5 to 10 years). So this one is probably due a respray anyway. The figure we really need is how much extra this is going to cost, compared to painting...

Like a lot of you, lockdown has got me back into aircraft modelling. The stash has a decidedly Canadian look and the first two builds are shown here, the HobbyCraft 1/72 kits of two Avro Canada products, the CF105 Arrow and the CF100 Canuck. Neither are particularly good kits (a glaring flaw can be ...

Massed helicopter approach at Middle Wallop shows, especially the ones where they all climbed into view together from the low lying land on the other side of the airfield. Forget the exact numbers but believe it was around fifty or sixty. 'Ride of the Valkyries' or 'Crockett's Theme' on the PA.... M...

I know many decent, talented people who can't tell the difference between a Hurricane and a Spitfire.... Not that I'm calling myself talented (or decent) but I once did a Air Britain aircraft recognition test at RAFM Hendon and managed to get a Mosquito with external fuel tanks confused with a Lanc...

No worries Flyholt, you and I once had a bit of a disagreement on this very forum when you had reason to make your authority on airshow matters very clear, in fact I think it ended with you calling me an 'a**e' :grinning: Shame you don't post more often, but I can see why you might not, we are a str...

If you speak with authority, please state what that authority is. "We" is insufficient if the reader does not know who "we" are. The staff have already made this point to everyone. I really don't know why they won't enforce it. Get over yourself, you have been on this forum long...

Well that was an interesting couple of hours last night, trying and failing to get the answer. I got as far as googling US wartime training aircraft but kudos to Mike for getting it. We used to do a 'what's the obscure aircraft.....' style spotting competition with the winner choosing the next one. ...

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑

Fri 01 May 2020, 5:17 pm

vintage ATCO wrote: ↑

Fri 01 May 2020, 3:19 pm

Shuttleworth Season Premiere Online Airshow

Available from 08:00 Sunday May 3.

Please see this link https://bit.ly/2ykS3Rh

A nice little way of showing support. Especially for £2.50!

Agreed but if you can I would suggest paying more, loss of airshow revenue will hit Shuttleworth hard.

phreakf4 wrote:From BBC News website.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52419705

Headline-grabbing nonsense, if there is an 'urgent need' then hire a plane and a pilot to get it done easier and faster. If it is just a continuation of planned R&D then there is no need to announce it as if it will make a real difference to the current emergency.

Nice pictures and I'm pleased to see pictures of B-17 "Swamp Ghost", as I'd lost track of her in recent years! What is the wreck in picture 10 though? It looks Japanese but only because I don't recognise it as an American airframe but then again, USAAC/USAAF is not an area that that I'm t...

A business trip to Hawaii in the middle of last month gave me a weekend to check out sites associated with the Pearl Harbour attack, before everything closed down. This is the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum on historic Ford Island which was subject to intense attacks back in 1941. The museum is impres...

NAM Updater wrote:He's managed to get a clip on the BBC website!

Loved the excited references on the video to a 'touch and go', I always thought a touch and go landing was a planned manoeuvre, pretty sure that was not what the BA pilot was planning at that moment...

Fort St Elmo and the museum are both very impressive with the exception of the way that particular aircraft is displayed. Its a long running saga but I will never understand why the Glad isn't out at Ta'Quali with the Malta Aviation Museum...

No and for two reasons;

1. I don't trust the technology
and
2. To do that to a De Havilland Canada Beaver is tantamount to sacrilege