😮 This year’s voting forms are 100% down to me – so apologies for any confusion; suggestions as to future formats would be gratefully received!

We have had engine runs in the past and I believe that I may have inadvertently offended one of the operators, which was never mine or the museum’s intention. I have tried to rectify the situation but sadly several attempts at communication have failed – so sorry about that one as well! 😮

I remember the year that the Merlins came to the event, for me that was absolutely the best cockpit fest, the impromptu cricket was one of those magical moments, which although tried for several years after, never captured the spirit, of that first time.

I like owls, I think most people do, but in fairness to those exhibitors with panels and flight gear, allowing the public to vote for them, in my view was a mistake.

Out of curiosity, why was there doubt cast on future cockpit fests?

The Typhoon looks brilliant, as does the Scimitar, and the Cobra.
The Phantoms look huge, I bet they’re a handful; another win for the Mersea maffia, who saw that coming…..

You know it’s not worth $275,000

This is the ex Jonathon Whalley A/C, there was talk at the time of excessive corrosion around the front screen area, that stalled it’s rebuild to flying status, but the lack of type specific afterburning Avons, and spares support in general, probably paid as bigger part in its fate; anyone know whats happening with Solent sky?

An excellent pilot, without a doubt, but one I suspect used to doing things his way, as a result it was a late drop, and although really exciting, the mine hitting the dam wall that hard wouldn’t have been much use I suspect.

Must have been the only one not annoyed by the Engineer, and I suppose much of what he was doing was reverse engineering, except for the bits where he was reinventing the wheel, but his enthusiasm carried it for me.

Yes it was a small bomb/mine, but it was a small dam, over here in GB we would have to have contented ourselves with the one that the (ever present) explosives chap built; does he run a theme park dedicated to the destruction of scale dams? as I think thats all I’ve ever seen him do.

As I understand it , what the good folk at deHavilland were” attempting to do” was not build Lancaster sub assemblies,( as was the requirement from the ministry) and so they designed and built an A/C from components, largely non essential to existing A/C production.

I have to say I think this is a brilliant effort, it would be a huge effort to build a flying A/C what ever it looked like, to do that would be beyond the reaches of most people, forum members especially; I would think that far from turning in their graves, the original team would applaud this, as fellow builders of aeroplanes.

I would also think that if they wanted, it could be reconfigured to a single seater, and the size of the canopy could be reduced proportional to the fuselage, and probably re engined to reinstate the clean lines of the engine nacelles, but for me the achievement of completing a project such as this is enough.

finally, unless there is a Cessna (or similar) underneath the Mosquito structure, any comparisons between it and the various body kit car conversions, are null and void.