Minidoh – I can tell you with one word why I never support England – “Beckham”.

I am sick and bloody tired of seeing his bloody face, his bloody wife’s face and his bloody tattoo in our newspapers every day. I dread to think what overkill we would be subjected to if England won!!! You must admit that as far as the media is concerned, there is only one player in the England team, and that is Beckham. What about the other 10? Have the media forgotten that football is a team game in their sick perverted obsession with a jessie who wears girls hair bands, pink nail varnish, sarongs, perfume etc?

I hate the idea that people see an effeminate pr*ck like Beckham as a representation of England. And I hate it when they assume that all English women adore Beckham, because I certainly bloody don’t.

Give me Wesley Sonck anyday. (He is a player for Belgium!)

Great report, glad you liked the Aviation Experience, I loved it when I was there (and I can’t wait to go again 😀 ).

I quite like being near the engine in a prop, in the Fokker 50 it is fun to see the props being started up, and also to see the landing gear being raised and lowered. And props have an awesome descent – they always seem to nose dive, and that is a superb way to approach somewhere like London City! Never tried a prop at BHX.

Great shots, I just love the AN124. I have seen that aircraft in MAN a couple of times. Once it was just parked, and I got it on video from the departure lounge in T2, and the second time it was being loaded and I was passing on an EI aircraft after landing from DUB, so I didn’t get chance to take a photo. I am going to MAN next week, is it likely to be around next Tuesday?

My Mum works in a shop where they sell iPODS, and she suggested that I have one, because I love to listen to music and at the moment we only have the CD players and the CD drive on my PC to listen to music with. But I wouldn’t really be bothered, it is hell of alot of hassle having to pay to download music from the internet just to listen to on something like that. It is much more fun to buy a CD which includes a video of the song – I can listen to that on my own CD player, and watch the video on my PC. And you can’t watch Enrique Inglesias on an iPOD can you 😀 😀 ?

Thanks for that LBARules, I’ll print that reply off and take it with me when I go to MAN (will post a report on here about what I see, hope the weather will be good enough to get some good photos 😀 )

After September, I will be dropping MAN for BHX. We booked our flights from MAN-BRU last year, then in December we booked a day trip from BHX-BRU for March, and after my visit in March to BHX, I was totally hooked on the place! I spent hours in the Aviation Experience (something MAN could learn from – provide a spotting area where everyone can access it, and not just those with bloody cars!!) I cannot wait for November, and our holiday flights next year to BRU will be from BHX and not MAN.

BHX is wonderful , far better than MAN (the indoor spotting area is far better than that pathetic thing at the top of the car park in MAN, where you can’t get good photos because the whole thing is surrounded by a bloody wire mesh fence!)

I go to BHX again in November (2nd) for spotting, because I have another trip to Brussels on the 3rd to buy some beer for Christmas (and I cannot wait – seven weeks after my holiday in Brugge, I am flying back to beautiful Brussels 😀 )

When I am at BHX I make a point of hanging about to see the mid afternoon arrival and then departure of SNBA, that is the big one for me, as I am not a fan of the 777, they look too ordinary I think (though I did see one in BHX on 30th March).