Good picture of the layout although it is not showing the whole site and some of the aircraft were in different positions in 2001.
I have that picture on the guidebook so I think it is the standard shot of the museum.

The Tu154 was parked in an area off the top left of the picture, along with the Tu144, Su25 (underneath) Il62, Yak 40 Yak 42, IL18, Tu124, Tu104.

I will see next week when I am there 😉

Last flight was on DHC8 G-OSVB from MAN to SOU

Next flight will be wednesday SAS A321 LHR-Copenhagen-SVO (probably plane change in Copenhagen)

Farnborough 1974 – with the L1011 prototype and SR71

Now the italians are involved does this mean they will change sides halfway through ??

It is also a case of the pot calling the kettle black with Prodi saying Berlusconi is corrupt – these are the 2 people who head the largest EU governing bodies.

The old saying “absolute power corrupts absolutely” was never more appropriate with regard to these 2 people (and the EU in general)

Latest news from Southampton – BA dropping Belfast and Jersey but will be increasing Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh to 5 daily.

Also Flybe wil start routes to Salzburg, Chambery and Copenhage later in the year. They may also get up to 6 ex Buzz 737’s.

The catalina N423RS is painted in 210 squadron markings as a tribute to him and all those who served in Coastal Command – now if only we could get a sponsor to operate it!

Wayne’s World – utter c***

Chemistry teacher setting his beard on fire – we have been doing organic chemistry and studying the ‘cracking’ processes at refineries etc. He explained how oil was cracked into fractions with the more dense substances being produced first.

He set about showing us a fractional distillation of a crude oil sample that he had – each fraction was put onto a small ceramic tile and he tested the volatility of each one using a lit splint.

The first he tried was bitumen – not very volatile so little flame when he lit it. This continued for a couple more samples until he came to Naptha ( i think) – for some reason he bent over the tile to light it – there was a flash, a bang then a crash as he reacted to the flash and triped over his chair. There also followed the nasty smell of burning hair as his beard / hair was smouldering.

Different chemistry teacher – putting sodium into water – normally
a teacher would cut a thin slice from the sodium disc (about the size of a extra strong mint) and put the rest away.
Not this teacher – she held the jar of sodium over the water tank as she tried to get one disc out – unfortunately about half the contents came out and into the water – there was a almighty bang , the water tank shattered and the teacher, her desk and most of the front row were rather damp.

In a physics class we had a fellow pupil carry a battery from the class back to the store – unfortunately he had it upside down so we had the pleasure of watching his school blazer disintergrate during the rest of the day.

Same physics class – different pupil & a model of a car ignition system. Pupil did not believe how powerful the spark was – teacher said “ok, put your finger on the end of the plug then” and the pupil did – silly boy. The force managed to throw him about 7 or 8 ft across the room.

I also remember the time in assembly a pupil (well known as a trouble maker) poured lighter fluid over the arm of his blazer and set light to it.

We also had the deputy head rip out an ear stud from a pupil who kept breaking the rules re ear studs (ie must be covered up when in school)