How dare you call them Fairys :diablo:
You are right Bruce, but Dzus is the generic term thats used by the engineers. You learn something every day.
The reason it was stripped down to the last bolt is because it needed it!
Dave
Looking forward to the Scud and the Blackburn Monoplane sharing the same skies.
I must admit, in no small part thanks to the the enthusiasm of one of the collections pilots, I am really looking forward to seeing it fly.
Finally. Spot the change!
You dont get it and you never will. Mindsets like your mean that the declien of aircraft perservation in this country would be doomed. Thankfully Brooklands are more enlightened than that. More power to them for that.
I do however object to it going inside if it means that the likes of the Viscount etc at Brooklands still struggle to get a roof over their heads if deference to a reproduction.
What a sad and pathetic point of view from somone who clearly has no understanding of what makes a particular aircraft historic.
The Vimy may well be new(ish) build but its done more in its class than all of the aircraft at Brooklands have. It fully deserves to be undercover at the expense of aircraft that have examples preserved elsewhere. Especially considering its construction does not lend itself well to keeping it outside.
It is no mere reproduction and to think so show a total lack of understanding of historic aviation and what makes an aircraft worthy of preservation.
Sunday on the Hill
The Dutch F-16 colours are great but really don’t work in anything other than bright sunlight
Yes yes I missed the flameouts, both days
Oh a Rafale, in a cloud, how very surprising!
I like this one,haven’t done much to it
Departures, stating with a brace of Gripen



Last time? #1
Show stealer

Last but by no means least, the venerable 111, last time? #2
Phoon

Saturday was static day, and the sun was out (for a bit)



The difference between pilots and mortals? They make this look good!

Rafale and its cloud again



Dutch C-130 cockpit
Fisheads



(The stripes on the fuselage are a real pain)

Hawg

Friday dawned de ewe elle elle dull! Vapour is only any use when there are blue skies.

Rafale was initially great but on the whole the display didn’t appear to be much more than a Mirage 2000 with some twiddly bits, that speaks volumes about the quality of the Mirage 2000 displays. A fully display will probably show the differences in capabilities between the two aircraft. It like its own personal cloud though.

Loaded for Terry!

Then the light got really bad!

Finally, there is something here at Old Warden to keep everyone happy, the Swiss Garden is included in the admission price on Airshow days and is well worth a visit (plus it keeps the better half happy). It provides some excellent photographic opportunities.

same as “Starbucks” for refusing to send coffee etc to the troops.
Which was completely false and a hoax, but dont let the facts get in the way of your anger.
same as “Starbucks” for refusing to send coffee etc to the troops.
Which was completely false and a hoax, but dont let the facts get in the way of your anger.
People, who need pictures of mutilated bodies in order to understand the horror of war, are the same kind of people who keep starting them. No amount of gore will ever educate them.
You have clearly never bothered to either try or understand how.
What is “There is a big difference between publishing pictures of anonymous battle casualties and publishing pictures of a named individual” supposed to mean then.
Would you like your dead relative to appear as a curiosity in a forum about the Ypres Salient
He may very well have already done so. I would rather my relative survived. If in death his image can help educate and bring an understanding about the realities of war then its a good thing. There will be a percentage of people who look at the images who are doing do for voyeuristic reasons, they are the ones who need educating most.
As for a fitting tribute, well that happens every night of the year at 8pm at The Menin Gate in Ypres.
There is a big difference between publishing pictures of anonymous battle casualties and publishing pictures of a named individual, who might still have living relatives. I doubt anyone here would like to see their deceased relatives when visiting an online forum, or opening a book. It’s not the fact that Sgt Lazarev is dead, it’s that he is Sgt Lazarev.
So it only matters when you know their names then?
Evertime I look at a picture of a dead soldier on the Ypres Salient I think of a relative who died there but whose body was never found.
It really doesnt matter, a dead person is a dead person, someones son, brother, father. If you censor this then you have to censor all of them.