Fantasy Airshow – Imagination Run Riot

Hold on – what about the missile boys?

How thoughtless – our vintage missile enthusiasts have had nothing on this thread…

1330 Recce autogyro from German submarine ‘spots’ enemy freighter on artificial lake south of Duxford

1334 Submarine dives

1335 HE111 with the ‘pilotless bomb’ missile demos launch and kill on freighter

1340 To break up the monotony, display by HE 111 ‘Zwilling’ towing ME323 Gigant, then Gigant disconnects and lands, disgorges armoured car and troops. (Zwilling lands at Marham due to unserviceability with main HSI)

1348 (Lost Child Announcements)

1350 Piloted V1 demo (Caroline Grace, complete with Luftwaffe flying kit and enormous flying goggles) ramp take off, full display, ‘commentary’ on flight characteristics (in broken English), bails out, lands, and salutes in front of crowd

1340 Unpiloted V1 arrival.

1340 V2 Launch

1340:10 V2 Engine Failure demo

1345 V2 transit demo (launched from Rottingdean en-route to cordoned-offfield in Peterborough)

1400 novely item (similar to F3 demo at Warbirds display ‘to show the difference’) 1st Generation Cruise Missile fly-by and deliberate crash due to software problems

(I’m flowing, it’s the wine 🙂 )

1430 John Peters strapped to Al-Masoud II and launched to The Gulf to expedite reporting (it’s ok mate, you’re allright 🙂 )

Originally posted by China Clipper
Meanwhile, that lone B-29 continues to circle overhead, pilotless….

Yo Clipper , what is the picture attachment from ????

My fantasy…apart from Jane Fonda in her Barbarella gear….sorry getting carried away there…

To be able to go to an airshow and drive straight in through the gates, without queueing, to park the car where I then dont have to walk miles to get the flight line, to have a table and chairs laid out with room to move around them right on the flight line but not in the middle (whats the point of watching em whizzing left and right when if you get a spot at the end of the runway where they take off and land from, you get more chance to enjoy and take pictures / video, to have food (not yesterdays sandwichs) and drink (some alcoholic but not served in those poxy plastic beakers) laid on, to have a clean portaloo just far enough away so I aint bothered by the wasp’s or the honk !, to have a suitable, informative but knows when to shut up so’s I can hear the planes commentator, to have the sun behind me so I dont take pictures of silhuoettes, to not have a bladdy funfair in the background,to have a clear run in the car out of the airfield and back home with no hold ups.

And as for the planes, all the current airworthy (helps dontchya know!) WW2 stuff, one or two jets but ones with style and attitude…Lightning, Vulcan, a couple of post war props and a few ‘heavies. Any of the ones mentioned in the previous post’s would do, but not too many cos I cant look everywhere at the same time.

Oh, and most importantly, no accidents

He did.

Clipper procurement?

I think it is called “procurement”… one of the oldest professions..

You should talk, with a name like “Snapper”…. chuckle…

😀

BTW, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting editorial last week by Winston Churchill’s son…. He said his grandpa (Winston) had invented Iraq…. 😉

Isn’t ‘clipper’ slang for a trainee prostitute?

Alastair,

Thank you kindly….

My dad flew B 17s in WW2 (Deenthorpe) and flew for Pan Am for 36 yrs out of Miami (hence the Buffett influence…Key West, you know..) so I love planes!!!!

I remember as a kid, Miami International Airport had a “Corrosion Corner” with a Stratocruiser, a few C46’s, several trimotor NORTHROP C-125 RAIDERs, Corsair, etc…. Ah…. if we only knew…

I will post an interior shot of the Avenger on that string….

St Pats day over here too!!! , still well celebrated by half of Glasgow , spotted your photos of the Avenger , it was me who posted the Dutch one with the radome , good photos too , I can tell you will be an asset to the Forum , welcome !!!

Jimmy Barf fett?

Harrumph!

haha

I can take it! My daughter calls him Jimmy Barf-it….

But she knows the words better than me…

But Jimmy has hopefully to you, a redeming quality… He is an avid pilot… He has 4 current aircraft including a vintage Stearman and an Albatross (the seaplane!) which he flies often…

He was just interviewed Jan 22 for a Pan American Airlines documentary, since he loves China Clippers, and vintage planes…

http://www.panamdoc.com/newstories/newstory013.html

Ck out the PAA documentary site, it has a lot of (non buffett) neat stuff in it!!!!

BTW, it is still St Patrick’s Day over here…. whoops, that Irish, sorry… 😉

And … it is pay $10 to drink as much as you want and listen to Buffett… chuckle…

Peace, amigo! I love the bagpipes too!!!!!

PS Ck out my TBM3 Avenger in Houston pic’s…. under Flypast forums… Maybe that will make up for my Buffett references…

Awwww nawww , another Jimmy Buffett fan , I work for an American company and my boss is a Jimmy Buffett fan ( Buffett ?? pay $10 and listen to as much as you want ???) bloody rubbish.

B29, Slim Pickens vs Col Tibbets

Slim will be glad to hear that.

You know, a little nukie never hurt anybody…

Oui?!

Sacre` blu, what was that le boooom?

Apocalypso — Tune by Jimmy Buffett

They say this universe is bound to blow
But I say we crank up the calypso control
Apocalyp, apocalyp, apocalypso

Now I’m no dancer as dancers go
But this is one step that you need to know
Apocalyp, apocalyp, apocalypso
We’ll be dancing when we go

Nawwww , the B29 makes one pass and flies off with Col Tibbets at the controls , we all go home just in time to catch the Mushroom Cloud over Paris.

Meanwhile, that lone B-29 continues to circle overhead, pilotless….

All these fantasies sound wonderful, even if the environment folks may have a few concerns over the Duxford lake proposal.

My fantasy airshow is perhaps less spectacular, but almost as unattainable.

What it, what if, all the warbird owners agreed to get together. With their planes. In one place, at one time. Get together all the warbirds in the world. Replicas included, since we wouldn’t want to exclude the 262 and the 190. We could even include the Hunters and the Sabres and all those post WW2 birds. INCREDIBLE.

I’ll offer to host it here, in Ottawa. This would be a great addition to our feeble warbird scene. Let’s make it an annual event. Then I can stop buying lottery tickets to get to Duxford.

Any takers? Shall I start organizing it!!

How about a ‘Tora Tora Tora’ set piece.
Real Zeros (about 40) together with Kates and Vals, attacking and sinking battleships and cruisers. You could do all this alongside Docklands Airport in London. Plenty of water to sink ships in, and a nice runway for the exploding P40s (but with at least 2 getting up and in the action) followed by the B17 one wheeled landing for real and a couple of Catalinas for good measure.

Right in the middle of London, it should be really popular!!

Right, I’m with you

Now what we really need is somebody to volunteer to clean all the paintball residue off the Lancs.

I wonder if there are any qualified Spitfire polishers out there who feel they are ready to move on to larger things? 😉

Moggy

Battle Damage

Hold on Moggy! You can’t have any Lancasters actually damaged by those flak towers on the dams. I suggest some sort of ‘paint-ball’ flak guns which will splatter green dye on the aircraft which are hit. Then crews can have a safe look at battle damage after the mass run-in and break at Duxford.

And you, no doubt, will offer to help tow them in to the custom-made hangar at the end of the show 🙂

The Chinese have done it…

They’ve got hold of one of the early Russian Aircraft Carriers – it is moored up and open to tourists. The aircraft hangar has been converted to an amusement arcade 😮

I like it

Seafuryfan’s idea of the lake was great as far as he took it.

But he forgot to add the dam at one end, that for the finale of the show is attacked by a squadron of Upkeep carrying Lancasters accompanied by suitable music.

Once the dam is destroyed there will probably be some technical problem with keeping the carrier replica upright. But hey! It’s only a ship.

Moggy

Would be nice to still in real life it would be nice to have an old carreir with ex royal navy aircraft displaying at sea front airshows

The indian navy are going to atempt a project like this in india but in britain the caa would stop the whole thing.:(