busy day today over Shropshire..

The Cessna may not be all that fantastic but was flying with a nose high attitude without climbing. seemed to be semi stalled for all the time i was watching it.

besides his fantastic museum and aviation restorations its not just the aviation side of things he excelles at.. i see him through the Facebook thingy. Every day he takes the effort to posts pictures (they often include his now famous left hand :rolleyes: ) and includes a small write up of what he has been up to or going to do. he goes on to acknowledge just about every question or comment thrown at him. If for that alone you have to give credit to the guy..

all i want to do on an evening is to chill out and not answer loadsa questions from every corner of the globe.. :confused:

a threesome that have tickled my fancy lately.. click to enlarge.. ive not quite worked out how to get the big nice pictures everyone else has :rolleyes:

this was effectively a new aircraft. one without prototypes and test models or even a series of production test pilots testing different parts of the flight program. i doubt very much that there would have been endless wind tunnel model tests to destruction and stress meters recording away due to the massive costs involved… . “”anything”” flown or driven at full belt is going to pop a rivit,blow a gasket or have a major malfuction at some point even if there has been a full development program beforehand… just look at the any part in the history of aviation and there will almost certainly be an accident of some description..

i would hate to blame or point the finger at such a serious and unfortunate loss. i leave that up to the people who know better and who are qualified to do so becouse they are better informed and are payed to make those kind of decisions.

sounds daft but during the 1980-90`s the BBMF photo recon late mark Spits still had a war role if an EMP attack kicked off and actually took effect.. my “war role” was part of the Combined Incident Team at Coningsby. our task was to keep the airfield useable, dealing with unexploded bombs,casualties, invaders,fire fighting etc ,even down to a long grassed area if the runways got knocked out. so we were allowed to know a few lesser known facts on the camp due to the coverage of our tasks.

a few of my friends had ex military aircraft and vehicles or even things that would be useful during a war such as heavy lift cranes that were placed on a “war list” and would be requisitioned if need be. im sure such lists quietly exist today but the threat is not really there no more

ha ha if this isnt a thread highjack then i dunno. from Nissen to Nissan to the whole history of Japanese car production from year dot. was there somewhere a mention of aircraft and airfields earlier??? 😀

poke a wasps nest and you will get stung :diablo: