Thanks for posting those, Blue Robin, beat me to it!
The reference to the propeller being still attached, in the caption to the first photo, was in response to media reports that it landed with one propeller.

Its been a few years since XJ823 has run on auxiliary power, though in theory she could be powered up again but there are no immediate plans to do so. As far as I know, no engine parts have been supplied to XH558. At present the air systems for operating the hatch are supplied by a bottle. If proposed developments at Carlisle Airport proceed she will need to be moved from her present location and we are looking into the possibility of covered accommodation.

I spotted V111CAN on a car parked at Bruntingthorpe.

It seems that Cosford is a victim of its own sucess in many ways and the fact that there are not that many RAF shows about nowadays.

A true but sad reflection and with road travel being so popular there is bound to be gridlock. At Leuchars show last September I missed much of the show stuck in traffic trying to get through Cupar to get to Leuchars and then queueing to get in. Then it took until 8:45pm to get out of the airfield and with further hold ups getting through nearby Cupar I wasn’t home till around midnight and I vowed I’d never take a car to an airshow again.

So on Sunday morning I drove to Coventry Airport and flew from there to Cosford in Air Atlantique’s Dakota G-AMPY/KK116.

We took off from Cosford at 5:50pm, landed at Coventry Airport at 6:12pm, I set off from there in my car at 6:20pm and with no traffic jams I was back home here in the south of Scotland at 10:25pm.

The Richard Hillary memorial at the entrance to Charterhall Airfield.

Great idea and I hope you get lots of customers. The Severn Valley Railway is one of my favourites and though I’ve travelled on their trains a few times I’ve only flown over the route once on a Carlisle-Goodwood trip in a Pa-28R, routing via Wallasey, Llandecla, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Brize Norton, and to the west of Farnborough to avoid the congested and controlled airspace around Liverpool/Manchester, Birmingham and London.

Looking back at my old notebook I see that my flight in G-APKN took place on 3rd August, 1969. In flight time was five minutes and we took off and landed on runway 29. Unfortunately I have not recorded the name of the pilot.