Yes, it is an obsession. And the media are foaming at the jaws with it all too. It is also a crazy paranoia. The whole se of the country shut down to general aviation unless pilots behave like those on the airways. And the worst thing is that WE are all paying for it too. WTF ?

Some great pics. Love the Thai retro!

Me too!

I reminds me of photos I have seen of THAI International DC8s which were leased from SAS. This is also showing that hybrid SAS-Thai livery with the SAS 747 cheatline markings from 1970s. The Thai livery was really just a basic SAS livery with the titles changed. 🙂

It seems we humans stick to what we know works. It took a new war for us to go over to monoplanes. The unstallable canard design is far superior (from a safety pov) than the standard arrangement yet light aircraft continue to be designed as per the known arrangement.

Thanks everyone, for the info on the airshow. Wish I still had an active pilot’s licence. Flying in (and out afterward) was soooo much easier. LOL

Ref that apron shot of these Court 1-11s, I think it’s also on the cover of a book that I have, called something like World Airline Colour Schemes. It’s one of a very good 3 part series of books, published in the late 70s early 80s. I remember that it was published by Airline Publications and Sales, Noble Corner, Great West Road Hounslow. I believe that the company eventually became Collectors Aircraft Models at the Skyline Hotel Heathrow, now gone out of business.

Yes! That is the source of the photo and again, yes… early photo not endgame fleet. Sorry for the wrong caption. 😉

Some photos of the JU52s ( CASA352s ) and B25s at Blackbushe the same day as the ex Spanish C-47s, good day out !

Thanks for posting these pictures. I never saw the US bombers but I did see the Spanish Junkers 52s; I think I was having a flying lesson with Three Counties at the time.

Court Line colours outside and inside

Court Line Pink One Eleven jet is pretty on the outside…

But as much as I love this colour i am not sure it should be the same inside…

That is indisputable

But the point is that an unfortunate pilot will earn an indeterminate and instant suspension of his licence for flying a twin engined Beech Baron over a field of sugar beet three or four miles south of Duxford.

Moggy

Yes it doesn’t seem what should be happening in a ‘fair’ and open society in the 21st century.

I feel the problem is that early laws were made with the protection of the people and got the understanding and cooperation from the said peeps. But then ‘The State’ started passing laws that did not make common sense to the people and seemed to be there to protect The State from the will of the People, should such a disagreement occur.

A law or regulation that isn’t for the benefit of the people (like stiffing some pilot for flying a twin somewhere uncool but with two fans not unsafe) is inherently wrong.

But the real problem is that we believe we live in an open and free society and that a ‘free democracy’ is to the benefit of the masses. When I suspect the real truth is that none of us has any real freedom from interference of The State. I feel our free elections are there to give us the false impression we are in control of the ruling elite when all we actually do is vote in one dictator or the other.

Our rights are being eroded all the time and as for ‘pilot’ rights, we have none, and we never did have any.

If there were a near extinction even or a nuke war we’d soon enough find out what human rights we (don’t) have. We would be ruled by the gun by The State and the establishment would be in control.