BBMF Website and Latest News

Wow gents, you have some brilliant ideas!!! I’m glad I followed Norm’s advice and tapped into all this info on here!! Thanks so much for your input, I’ll do my best with your great ideas!

Top geezer is Norm.:D

Tell him my daughter says hello,and thanks him for his help on members day this year.He’ll know what you mean.

Ken.

Some nice photos there as well.Interesting tidbits in Engineering really get me going.Something we don,t see much of in the colonies…

Wow gents, you have some brilliant ideas!!! I’m glad I followed Norm’s advice and tapped into all this info on here!! Thanks so much for your input, I’ll do my best with your great ideas!

Yv,

I like ‘Grip and Grin’ articles. 🙂

Good luck in the new job,

Richard

Yvonne
Think the website is excellent but more information about what aircraft is on major maintainence ,how it is progressing and what scheme it will appear in would be really good. As an aside would it be possible to maybe organise a BBMF photocall with all of the aircraft outside after winter overhaul and before the AOCs validation day. I am sure that people would pay money for the opportunity to photograph these wonderful aircraft at their home base instead of relying on seeing them at airshows and maybe never seeing the one you really want a picture of.

John

Yvonne,
To carry on from Jim. Whenever you come on-line at BBMF there ought to be an auto-page showing what each of the BBMF airframes was doing on that date for every year of its existence.
Now I’m not suggesting that you collect, correlate, or produce these ‘pages’, but I’ll bet there are a number of the local ATC Sqn computer geeks who will be only too pleased to show you how to do it!!! Issue instructions from BBMF and It Shall Be So!!
Yrs Aye, a VERY ancient military meteorologist,
Resmoroh

A couple of suggestions…

Hi Yvonne,

Better declare up front that you know me already, I was going to wind you up and be anonymous:diablo:

In the 1997 BBMF brochure, there is a list of all the BBMF aircraft with all of the squadron schemes they have worn. Pictures of all of these schemes must exist, and presumably you have a reasonable amount of space for images, so why not have a much larger history for each aircraft.

Secondly, in the brochures over the years, there have been loads of great pieces from veterans, most of them are sadly no longer with us. What about extracting them and creating them as pdfs so people can download and read them?:)

Happy to chat at work, you have my extension…:p

Jim R

You certainly are!!! I was going to pm you my favourite flavours!!!

Like the fascinating facts….don’t know if you’ve seen the RAF Annual Review Yearbook for 2009 yet, there is an article in there entitled 20 things you didn’t know about BBMF!…no mention of eggs though!
😉

I don’t know why, but ‘fruity teas’ has now become a euphanism for anything even remotely naughty in my head!

I’m a bad, bad man.

Another idea might be some kind of occasional trivia- just a single line under a ‘fascinating facts!’ type banner i.e- ‘Lancaster PA474 to date has carried out ninety million and sixty-twelve display appearances’ or ‘Spitfire P7350’s cockpit smells faintly of eggs’. Well, you get the idea!

*snigger* ‘fruity teas’ *snigger*

😉

Am sure you have far better things to do!!!….Like coming up with more brilliant ideas for the website!! 🙂

😉 Thanks for those ideas….as to a job, I’m always after someone to make my fruity teas!!!

I’m on my way.:D

Ken.

😉 Thanks for those ideas….as to a job, I’m always after someone to make my fruity teas!!!

Hi Yvonne, you don’t fancy like giving me a job do you:D

What would benice, similar to what lanc man said, some real coverage of a typical day of one of the engineers during the winter months, and maybe when the season gets underway maybe the same with some of the aircrew and ground crew when they attend various locations around the country, especially with the number of sorties you guys have to attend now.

Also, an update on whatever aircraft you are having overhauled this year and also maybe a little feature on the spit xvi thats underway to being restored to airworthy.

Keep up the good work!!!

Hi Ken

Thanks very much for your comments, great ideas, keep them coming!!

Hi Yvonne.

What might also be nice along the lines of Lancman’s request,is an insight from the other guys that rarely get a mention,and that is the volunteer guides that entertain the visitors.

Surely they could also regale us with some of the questions that they have been asked over the years,both serious and funny,and what makes them do what they do.

And what about you guys in the office?

It would be nice to know what you guys do behind the scenes,in order to co-ordinate everything and make it run smoothly.

You could even have a new page on the site,something like,”A day in the life of………” and then a random member of the team from within the entire flight describing what they do.

Ken.

lectures

Hi Philip
Happy to help with this request. Please drop me an email and I’ll see what I can do. Bear in mind that generally, the lectures/presentations on the Flight are restricted to our Winter months.
Yv

just sent you an email, hope you can help

regards

philip

Hi Lancman
I’m glad you’re enjoying the latest news items on the site. Thanks very much for your suggestion, I’m on my way down to the corridor right now to “nobble” one of the guys!! Please keep your suggestions coming! I’m very keen to make sure the website is interesting and informative and not just full of “grip and grin” articles.
Yv 🙂

Hello Yvonne, I’ve certainly enjoyed the recent engineering based updates on the BBMF news page, and would certainly welcome more of the same. How about picking an engineer at random and getting an average ‘day in the life’ from him/her?

Hi Philip
Happy to help with this request. Please drop me an email and I’ll see what I can do. Bear in mind that generally, the lectures/presentations on the Flight are restricted to our Winter months.
Yv

Hello

I have taken over the role of Public Relations Officer at BBMF, RAF Coningsby and have been in post since June 08. Part of my responsibility is the BBMF website www.bbmf.co.uk. I am trying to make our “latest news” area on the site a little more interesting and would welcome any constructive comments any of you have! 🙂 I am trying to include more articles about the engineering elements of the Flight and more behind the scenes information. If you would like to see an article about a particular area of the Flight or have any comments to make on the website as a whole, please let me know.
Many Thanks
Yvonne. 😉

Hi Yvonne

I wonder if you could help me, I contacted bbmf a while ago about an evening lecture at the sywell aviation museum, northampton

she said about some sort of display but what was offered was very unclear.

Asked for clarification but no further responses.

Is an evening lecture on the bbmf something that could be offered to our museum

philip