She looks lovely can not wait to see her fly.

You mean like this?

Lufthansa 460, an A340, is overhead London now at 32,000 feet…

Dowding must be spinning in his grave!

Well, I like your updates. A6-GDP was pretty well known around Stansted, sometimes it was in every week.

Interestingly and on a slight tangent, there was a bit in the paper a couple of weeks back about an Indian (I think….?) airline captain who was having a lean spell so he bought a 747 and had it scrapped in Bangladesh, where labour is cheap. He then made enough selling on the parts to not only get himself financially stable again, but paid for a flash new car as well!

Brian Matthew’s SOTS did a special on him on Radio 2 Saturday morning. I had a little bop around the kitchen; what a fantastic talent, stolen from us too young like so many. He lives on forever through the music.

Just as well you weren’t in an Indian hotel room 😀

By coincidence I was down there on the same day, clearing the garden at my daughter’s house. If you go to the council tip in Hounslow they are right over your head at a couple of hundred feet on a 27L approach 😎

The P-40 does as well; can’t remember exactly by how much as I am not by the manuals at the moment but we were asked the question recently by an aero modelling group.

The only 777 hull loss to date has been caused by RR engines…..

Where on earth did you get that from????

Is it me, or does that P-51 look like it has blue camouflage……..?

😀