Myself and others saw an aircraft land at Popham on Saturday afternoon and being met by an ambulence. Only after reading this and other reports I can only conclude that it was Neville Duke. A sad day indeed and he will be greatly missed.

Triumph Herald & Triumph Spitfire

Have seen the timings for Eastleigh (SOU) – Frankfurt – with only 1 rotation per day during late afternoon (4.55pm departure) this will not really attract any business traffic unless you want to stay 1 night. To be a successful business route it must have an early AM departure with an evening return to allow business people the chance of a day trip.

Paris timings are ok with early out and late back and will be in direct competition with Air France.

Can you also include Ken Dodd who is still going strong – very funny live.

Spike Milligan also deserves a bigger mention – he was a comic genius with ‘Q’ Goon show and a cameo role in ‘Life of Brian’

An ex work collegue of mine was seriously injured whilst doing some off road cycling. Despite wearing a helmet he was in a coma for several weeks and suffered brain damage to the extent that he could no longer walk unaided or look after himself. 2 things saved his life a) wearing the helmet b) being found after the accident by a neurosurgeon (luck or what) who was able to get him to the right place for the best treatment very quickly. OK so his quality of life is less than it was before the accident but it is better than being dead. With physio and proper long term care his condition is slowly improving (he can now walk again)

I travelled through FCO a couple of years ago as a pax and the level of security in the terminal was intimidating to say the least. You migh be better off under the approach but even then you will almost certainly attract the wrong sort of attention.

Much of that collection is now at Moron – I visited the museum in 1996 and there were a lot of interesting aircraft there + even a raised seating area for civil photgraphers.