tankbuster81 wrote:Lovely!!! Whose JP is that?

Yes, I liked that. Hope to see it later in the year somewhere.

John

Once again the elegance of the VC10 is demonstrated. Is it still possible to build functionally superior but beautiful aricraft?

John

Love #10 of the Lancaster. Great lighting (how did you light both the top and the bottom of the engine nacelles?) and nicely displays just how much of the fuselage is bomb bay.

John

Count me in the "as is" crew as well. Respect for the crew, the Defiant crew and the Few.

John

Home and tea. For once you deserve it. Well done everybody

John

So to sum up: - Airshow organisers are at a particular disadvantage compared to other show organisers because the key elements of their shows can be seen for miles - Some airshows either don't provide the best possible facilities for some specialist users or suffer from simple geographical limitatio...

What were the Vulcan's escorts? I can't quite see from the photo.

Was this XH558's homage to the B2 and its F15s?

John

Craig wrote:Brilliant set, always nice when you get the weather and the traffic!

Yes, that DHL truck is amazing! Or is that not what you meant?

John

Just what were they going to do if they had found out where the 'drones operated from'? Aren't the Reapers now being controlled from Waddington, but no unmanned airframes are based out of there? I believe they are being controlled from Waddington but they fly out of Creech AFB or Kandahar when on o...

Its very strange that the only sharp shot is taken at a pub. There must be a lesson there but I can't put my finger on it.

John

That Sea Hurricane with the evening sun on it is absolutely glorious.

John

Not that keen onn nicknames myself either - but Tiffie doesn't strike me as being too dreadful an example and does indeed hark back to the original Typhoon of WW2 fame, so there is a tenuous historical link there. As for the Boulton-Paul Defiant, I would never classify that as a stupid name. 'Daffy...

Presumably in the mid/late 1970's, General Dynamics (I assume it was they) who thought that the name 'Falcon' didn't have the required impact for their new F-16 single-engine jet aircraft - so 'Fighting' was added to it? Have there been other 'fighting' aircraft? I think they added "Fighting&q...

If you decide to stand somewhere near an airshow and a plane falls on you, c'est la vie. Its nobody's business but yours. If a plane 'falls on you' do you seriously think the out come should or ever would ever be, oh well c'est la vie'? First someone will have to clean you up, then the investigatio...

Perhaps he should ship RS712 to New Zealand.....

John

No. 4 for me, I'm not usually a fan of very wide-angle but that's a cracker.

As for the young lady with the microphone... I suppose she's not on Uniform Dating?

John

He's a better man than I am. Wasn't the Gee Bee a notorious pilot killer?

I wish he'd spend some money on his Mosquito!

John

Albemarle Bisley Sound like country house names You left out Blenheim, on that basis. I think we have to allow place-names, otherwise there will be trouble over Lancaster, Stirling, Halifax, Sunderland...... Was Camel ever officially adopted for the Sopwith 2F1? I thought it was a nickname. I'm sur...

Daz wrote:Spitfire what sort of a name is that?

Thats what a man called RJ Mitchell said.... he thought Shrew would have done.

John

I was in a London pub a few weeks ago and some street people had their noses to the windows watching the football. Anyone get sadder than that?

John

we are straying off topic but I have to point out that risk is not calculted purely from historical data (people do this all the time on the gambling/casino channels which I find hilarious "thats the 7th black in a row"). The fact that an aircraft has not crashed specifically at the spot ...

Sadly we now live in a society where 'I can and will go wherever I want if there is no law to stop me'. Common sense does not even come into it. When a past Hawk display pilot raised concerns about the throngs under the B axis he was just ignored by lots of the photographers on here... so what can ...

Nice. Looks like you went higher up the hill than I did.

I like the Lanc shots South of the dam, but you've had the same trouble as me with glare on the upperwings from that inconveniently placed sun. It would be nice if they did it at 0900 instead of 1300!

John

TIGER TIM wrote:Anybody got a take off time for the Lancaster and the Tonkas??

I think they are going to display at Cosford at 1230, presumably during the same sortie.

John

ErrolC wrote:

FarnboroJohn wrote:Where do you sign up for the teeshirts?

Everyone I've seen wearing one has been involved in the project. NZ Warbirds had (has?) a different design that doesn't mention KA114 specifically.

I'm non-entitled personnel. Fair enough

John