Put bluntly, I wonder why I, or any of us, still come here – other than out of a misplaced sense of nostalgia!

Exactly! I don’t remember when I joined but it must have been some 15-20 years ago, at least. My post count isn’t very high but I like to scroll the forum for information and to “keep up” with events. I said to myself that I’ll give it until the new year but if nothing has improved at that time, I’ll probably become a stranger.

Over at Warbirds Worldwide, there was a problem with spammers. A reporting system is in place. Scott and his “little helpers” do something about it and now there is hardly any spammers registering or being active. That’s how it should be done but if the “little helpers” overe here have no “powers”, then what could they do?

… and to not add to the effect of spammers, this is the last I have to say on the matter …  … !

Does the new forum have a “Mark Site/Forum As Read” feature?

I’ve asked for such a feature for months, soon years I guess but nothing happens!

It seems like mine is the first edition:

https://www.gettextbooks.co.uk/author/Eric_B_Morgan

Sopwith, members becoming “Anonymous” may be down to the board being run by gremlins  ?

R6915, good research, the more I learn the more I realize how little I know!

If 5 March was in error, JQ would have pointed it out, right?

I also have The Spitfire Story by Alfred Price. He too has made an interview with JQ and he discusses the date of the first flight. The final statement by AP was that “the surprisingly meagre evidence would seem to point to K5054 having made her maiden flight on the 6th, rather than 5th March 1936 as has so often been said in the past”.

The jury seems to be out for a long stay?

In SPITFIRE – The History by Morgan/Shacklady, on page 27 it states:

On the morning of 5 March 1936 “Mutt” Summers climbed into the cockpit of the unpainted aircraft at Eastleigh aerodrome for the maiden flight.

It also seems like “my” thread in the Forum Updates / Issues section regarding the “mark all threads as read” not being available is gone to!