Dunno, but this made me laugh but then I deal with QinetiQ quite a lot these days.

Napier originally (and derived from a development line that started as an aircraft engine) ending up as Paxman.

Of course, the pedants might argue that the shape of the letter was more akin to the Arabic letter nabla rather than the Greek letter delta.

Anyway, as a self confessed number taker (of trains and planes) I have to admit to thirteen years working for IATA so I did have a professional interest in aviation as well.

I’m stunned to see how many people here know of the mighty Deltic.

waaaaahhhhhhh nobody ever asks me if I would like to go up for a flight (I’d even pay for lunch…) waaahhhhh

So, if anybody here flies out of Popham and needs some additional ballast or someone to buy you lunch, I’m your man!

Just looking at the picture of the Norwegian F-5, I used to shoot using two Pentax’s … I wonder if that person is me?

It was in the static park at Yeovilton this year.

If I’m not supposed to post this – sorry, please delete.

But new airlines need a good start in life, and in using Nutricius A1 seem to be trying to get advice they need from outside sources. I don’t doubt the need for support in setting up an airline, probably from external consultants, but I hope for their sake that a marketing company and travel agents is the right place to be getting it from.

Reading the prospectus they produced for the other startup they were promoting, I really am still worried that if they provide A1 with an equally professional service, A1 will have a lot of problems.

I am reading Nutricius’s work from a purely accounting and company law point of view; that’s all I know about. It may of course be that everything other than that is really well thought out and accurate. But seeing that number of really serious legal flaws in a prospectus they are producing for potential investors, I automatically fear that they are dealing with the issues I know nothing about and regard as more complicated and technical with no better than equal competence. (And it has to be noted that the other airline still doesn’t exist yet.)

I have to say that after reading the prospectus I had quite a few niggling worries as well, not least of which was the fact that it kept referring to the Isle of Mann. I also found some of the forecast financial figures slightly worrying.

The key thing which kept recurring in my mind was Branson’s statement that the way to make a small fortune in the airline industry to start with a large fortune.

Merlin70 wasn’t it Sculthorpe that was used as a store for aircraft rather than West Raynham.

Yes, Sculthorpe was used in the late 1970s to store the MAP funded F-100s, Mysteres and T-33s when they were reclaimed from the French by the US.