I think you answered your question in the first line, they ‘spot’, not fly. Don’t take it personally.

I watched a TV programme a while back about ‘enthusiasts’, apparently it’s all about collating information about aircraft, not about actually leaving the ground in one. Unless, that is, you have to go to Greece and get arrested for collating information about aircraft. Criminal offence there. 😮

I assume most of you here know me as editor of TFC’s Fighter Log and long term volunteer with TFC. I have been asked by Stephen Grey to post the following:

“I have been very privileged to have been a friend of Ray Hanna for longer
than I care to remember. If I may comment,in an attempt to close certain
uncomfortable comparative pilot discussions which I understand have been
aired – To be mentioned in the same breath as him as a pilot is more than
flattering, it is absurd. When I grow up, I would like just once to fly as
well as he always did. An inspirational pilot & a gentleman, enduringly to
be remembered.

Yours sincerely, Stephen Grey “

Glad to see you’ve ruled out cheating then 😉 Could be from the air support at Custer’s last stand.

This is part of the story from the BBC Wales website:

‘Licensed radio ham Alan Kingdom, who lives a mile away in Cathcob Close, St Mellons, saw the plane flying low overhead and then picked up the distress signal on his radio scanning equipment.

“I saw it flying quite low, and wondered what it was doing,” he said. “Then the voice of the pilot came up on the Civil Aviation Authority distress frequency, saying they were landing on the Wentloog coast road, and that was it.

“They must have been really lucky. Those aircraft carry about eight litres of fuel and it’s pretty volatile fuel, so anything could have happened.”

‘Your names not on the list mate, so you can’t get in’

The box actually contains the next load of TFC merchandise. Now that they have got rid of the dodgy bloke models on the web site and replaced them with more appropriate models, the stuffs selling like hot cakes!! 😉

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