I have been told that there will be loads of US military aircraft, which im less than impressed by. I have been told they include,
Boeing-LM F/A-22 Raptor
LM F-35 (JSF)
McD C-17
Lockheed C-130J
McD F-15 GD F-16 X2
US Army
McD AH-64
Sikorsky UH-60
US Navy
Lockheed P-3
Grumman E-2
F/A-18 X3

plus
SAAB Gripen and a big Rolls-Royce exhibition at the weekend and lots of bizjets mon-wed.

my website http://www.farnboroughairport.biz will be the place to have the first aircraft lists and photos anywhere from the arrivals week.

Correct it was DH’s personal moth. On July 25th 1928 he set a new class altitude record of 21,000. I guess he owned it until its impressment?

Could need a brave pilot to fly it as the orginal only made one flight 12/6/40 and was “damaged beyond repair in a forced landing with overheated engine and inadequate elevator control after 5 minutes”! Would certinally be nice to hear a Napier Sabre unless they are going to use a nasty modern engine??:mad:

I saw it at LFA back in 1998. How far has the restoration gone so far? Been after a ID for this one for years.

Re: Neutral countries at war

Originally posted by Dave Homewood

2) One of the chaps from Cambridge that I’m researching was shot down by Germans in his bomber near Spain and was captured by the Spanish. They imprisoned him for three months before sending him back to Britian.

In a case where a nuetral country imprisoned someone like Maurice, would he have been treated fairly well and looked after? Or would he have actually been locked up in a jail under harsh conditions? And, since the Spanish Government was Fascist, did they treat downed Germans much better than British or Allies? And did they process the Germans quicker to get them back to their unit? or were they totally impartial?

The Spanish did imprison RAF pilots. I read a book a few years ago about a Spitfire pilot who escaped twice from occupied France. On the first time he escaped over the Pyrenees and sought medical help in a Spanish village and was imprisoned for about 6 months for entering the country illegally. He was eventually released after trading his watch to a guard to get a letter to the embassy.
On his second escape in 1944? the Spanish had obviously seen the way the war was going and were very cooperative.

Personally I would have been very annoyed not to have got a Trislander both ways. Have always wanted to fly to Alderney on the BN2 Mk III but it is so dam expensive from Southampton. Even the Flybe flights to Jersey are expensive at £100+ for a weekend return (45 min each way!).

The AEW3 sadly suffered in the radar department. The airframe was sound it was the AEW radar that was the problem. I remember them in store/scraping at Abbingdon. The E-3 was a good and quick solution. Although they should never had got rid of the Shack’s!!:mad: