Given the frequent mention in the media of the tag ‘Baby Branson’ there was an interesting article in today’s Guardian about Branson and the Virgin empire showing how the Virgin tag had been applied to a vast number of enterprises, very few of which actually produced the goods in terms of business success once he had sold them on.

I went out this time last year on QR to DOH in business class in a newly delivered A333. Excellent, and the flight attendant remembered me on the way back. One of the best flights I have been on.

I think there were three AV-8B fuselages here in the UK left over from the *update* to AV-8B+ status. In addition, I’m fairly sure that there is an AV-8 on display on the DM celebrity row.

I think the UK CAA still report seperate traffic figures for BACX which you can download from their website (eventually when you find where the numbers are).

Ooops, I wondered where I had seen the serial mentioned recently…

Is this not the one that has gone to GJD at Farnborough for the FAST museum. But what has happened to the spares ship (ZH807?) that they also acquired and were selling the nose from a few weeks ago?

Welford is probably the only arms dump to have its own exit from a motorway (signed works traffic only) on the eastbound M4 just before Chievely.