[The government’s failure to deal with this is awful now. I know that they hope it just goes away, but the damage of unlocking lockdown is catastrophic and unforced. Tommy It's a Catch-22. If you don't unlock, the national debt rises to the point of unsustainability, the economy will fail leading t...

The slogan obviously read: Stay at home*.........Protect the NHS......Save Lives *Terms and Conditions Apply This is day 6 of Cumminsgate. How long will this go on? Will it get to the Sunday papers 2 weeks in a row? All I can say is whatever hold Cummings has on Johnson, it must be dynamite, or he r...

Another casualty, Rhyl has been cancelled

Have to echo Nige on this. What a few days, sunburn, Tomcat, Lightnings (both of them) B24/30, Patrouille Suisse, Kvotchur's arrival on the Saturday afternoon after a couple of days of rumours. I have video somewhere I was mostly video in those days. All you can hear is me shouting "Look at Tha...

My brother finally gave up his fight against cancer last week, only 10 of us can go to his funeral and we will have to wait until later in the year for a proper send off/wake. If we are spared that is ! A colleague at work has lost both his parents to Covid-19 last week, so I think that’s sadder th...

All the self employed people who for years have been using accountants to make their profits disappear into their accounts so they paid little or no tax are now feeling less smug as the Govt has stated that any grant they receive from them will be based on their their declared profits! To Speedbird...

AndrewW wrote:New information posted to the Bruntingthorpe web site:

https://www.bruntingthorpe.com/aviation

Looks like, if there is an open day in August, it could be the final one.

Terrible news for the LPG Team, Looks to be the end of Fast Taxi events at Brunty and an uncertain future for some significant airframes.

Update: Insurance claim in........silence from them is deafening Told to claim Universal Credit of £94.25 per week That's going sort it....So filled in the tick box forms, need to verify identity online, out through to Digidentity thousands in the Queue, then it crashed. Trying again to day...... Ga...

Boris asks people to avoid pubs etc. If he had Ordered us to close, we might have a claim on insurance. Asking us means we have to voluntarily close. We lose the ability to claim. I know it pales against loss of life and my thoughts are with those bereived, but this country will need business to pi...

Boris asks people to avoid pubs etc. If he had Ordered us to close, we might have a claim on insurance. Asking us means we have to voluntarily close. We lose the ability to claim. I know it pales against loss of life and my thoughts are with those bereived, but this country will need business to pic...

UKTopgun wrote:Wonder if this thread should move to off topic as the airshow discussion has progressed to a general Covid-19 one...?

Probably a good idea. Started one in Off Topic anyway. Mods feel free to merge or do what you think is best

Well I'll start this off then. It's fairly obvious what this is doing to my business, barely a booking in a week, plenty of cancellations, no different to anyone else in the hospitality sector. Welash Assembly Gov need to climb down off there political horse and give small businesses in Wales, the s...

capercaillie wrote:

Pat Murphy wrote:At a time when calm heads and Entomologists are needed, the world has Trump

Earwigo again!

Damned Autocorrect

Of course I meant Epedemioligists.......

I think it is only a matter of time before the decision to cancel events such as RIAT and Yeovilton is made. Zero chance the virus will still be going in July/ August. This article shows how with a lock down like they have in Italy currently and we will almost certainly have here shortly you can br...

Lovely stuff, brings back some lovely memories.

Nice stuff Zac. Good to see progress on this one.

Ledhead27 wrote:

Cole wrote:
Besides the known fault where the wheels fall off?

Except that was on a Q300?

Plenty of videos to support the Q400 sadly. It's undercarriage has too often, failed to do the same.

CJS wrote:

psquiddy wrote:Or Italian ?

Yes, quite right. Title amended

Sorry, I meant to reply but got a bit busy with a paint brush I looked for BoB vets and couldn't find any. There are a good number of Luftwaffe survivors from the war but that's as far as i got.

The BBC have reported the passing of Flight Lieutenant Maurice Mounsden at the grand age of 101 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50710808 There are just 3 aircrew left alive from The Battle Of Britain, Flight Lieutenant William Clark, Wing Commander Paul Farnes and Flying Officer John Hemingway.

2019, well it started sadly for me with the demise of the Tonka. At least I got to see them bow out in style. So, work got in the way of everything until Daks over Duxford, which was very impressive to see so many gathered together, but the weather spoiled the spectacle. Then to RIAT, which while ha...

Brevet Cable wrote:As an aside, is allowed?

I see no reason why Horse Rider Handle should not be acceptable.......

So just supposing, miraculously, by some strange act of fate, there is a GE on 12 December, this year. What Government, or make up of government, would we all like to see. I'll get the ball rolling by stating I don't have a clue! I only know the ones I don't want and I haven't worked out whether, o...

Down to visit the eldest with the family. Fantastic day. What a way to finish the season.
Keep this sort of event for next year Duxford.
10 out of 10

Finningley Boy wrote:Bloody marvellous Pat, that chap who flew close enough to cut the grass before disappearing skyward, was he reported for breaching Health & Safety regs?

FB

He went on to fly 747's and others for BA, not long retired

Brought a tear to the eye Set me scouring the depths of Youtube for Lightning stuff. This has to be one of the best. Things get really interesting from about 6 minutes in The comments below make interesting reading too as the pilot of XP693 has now seen the vid and commented https://www.youtube.com/...