Personally RYR could go down tomorrow and I would not shed a tear. Well apart from me needing a few of their 738 frames. They simply do not fly anywhere I want to go. STN is 90min drive away and apart from DUB they do not fly to a ‘spotable’ airport.
Im am flying Squeezyjet to AMS for the first time in a few weeks. Obviously its not as cheap as RYR but it goes from somewhere I want to fly from(LGW) to the citys major airport.

Local legend is that around Farnborough there are a couple of ‘planefillsites’! WW1 aircraft supposedly dumped on what is now a large industrial estate. And WW” German aircraft dumped in a gravel pit near Camberley. Im sure many of these stories have a element of truth but I feel Russia must be a better source for finds?

Thanks MarkL, looks like FRA in August after AMS in a few weeks. 😀

I haven’t been there since 1992 so worth a tips again,ba quoting £85 for a weekend in August. Just a couple of questions
1) where did you stay? I want a hotel for less than £50 per night with a shuttle bus or close to the city railway station.
2) is it confirmed that the viewing area will be open until when in September, begining or end? and how cheap is the food on the deck? Is it better than the old one when it was just a hotdog and a beer.
I remember well going in 1990 and the train from airport to city costing 20p as the then 5p’s were the same size as 1DM’s and all machines excepted them. I bet German railways profits have increased with the use of the Euro :rolleyes: .
Thanks

I have read a lot on BOAC during the war and am certian Swizerland was not surved. I guess Lufthansa may have flow there during the war?
The runs to Sweden were operated from Leuchars in 1943-45 with 10 Mossies. Their main outbound load was mail and newspapers to counter enemy propaganda. With ball bearings being the main load back. Passengers were occasionally carried. It was operated in daylight until A FW190 shot up
G-AGGD 3/1/44 and it forced landed in Sweden afterwards it operated at night. The service continued until early 1945.
Before that Lodestars were used at night, none seem to have been lost in action. The Whitleys were only used Gibraltar-Malta and north African routes but were totally uneconomic.

More on IUX in the indespensable AJ Jacksons British Civil aircraft
‘Two others G-AIUX ‘Atar Master’ and G-ALTZ ‘Star Monitor’, were used for testing commercial pilots in instrument-flying and blind-approach techniques and for calibrating airport radio installations. Both, as their names suggest, were inherited from British South American Airways.’

It became VP-KMI 5/54

Never to be seen again 🙁

We can all dream, they sometimes come true. I remember the last time I saw the beast fly at the Great Warbirds show at Wroughton. Did a T&G and the vertical climb out and as it disappeared into the distance it felt very sad. A feeling only matched by the last Concorde flight recently.

Has to be the Vulcan or a Connie. It has to be big and noisey to grab my attention. Not into watching the rest that feel like dots miles away, must be my dodgy eyes.
The Vulcan pulling off the funway into the near vertical is magical.