Hi Bristol_Bob

I went to Bristol for the first time recently with my partner but found taking photos was very difficult. I wondered how you get the great photos you take there. That fence is tool tight to be able to pan with the aeroplanes as they land to take off. How do you take pics there (alongside 09) with that awful fence?

I was using a small camera, not the professional one you must own. The bes I could take thru that fence were these…

If you have no engine, you might also be out of electrical power… So no way to get flaps down. (I guess they are electrically operated on Cessnas?)

They sure do. Slow flap deployment from what I recall.

The picture is appropriate! I think the anarchisitic hoodie culture is one we need to stomp hard on before things get even worse than they already are. Of course, I may just be getting old. 🙂

This has got to be a joke. The Polish are criticising us?

I paraglide off of Wiltshire hills. We have trouble all the time with Polish young men who try to fly on the hills without training or insurance. They ignore site rules (long-term agreements with landowners and farmers) putting our flying sites at risk. They land on restricted SSSI areas and in cropped fields causing the farmer crop damage.

And we all get the blame for what these Polish anarchists do in the air. I have seen them fly directly into a hillside and try to land downwind. God help British aviation if they ever get experienced enough to climb to cloudbase in a thermal and go cross country. No pilot will be safe. No aerodrome ATZ or CTR will be safe. Only one of maybe 8 Polish paraglider pilots I have seen and met have proper training or respect for Britain and its airspace and rules. So screw you Polish!

I Love your KLM Fokker photo! A nice ‘clean’ portrait of a lovely aeroplane. 🙂

PS: The Hawker-Siddeley Dominie is departing not arriving (I.E. attitude, takeoff flap settings, gear in transit).

Well that is one more piece of aviation information that is now in my brain! There is quite enough of it already, taking up limited real estate! Thanks for nothing, boys!

What wonderful photographs. The backgrounds make them special. You have done a superb job framing them. I think the two photos with the Vulcan and also the Lanc far off with the hills in the backgrounds are great stuff. All you needed was a Tornado in the same location and you’d have RAF Bomber Command as a pictorial history. Thanks for sharing these wonderful shots with us.:D

Nice photos! Makes me wish I had gone.;)

Doesn’t the pilot of the CASA/Me 109 look the part! My partner wants to go next year just to listen to the engines from back then. Lovely.