This sounds like a case where the union comes into its own…my daughter is a teacher in London and it’s imperative to be a union member when you are a teacher. Something like 80% of claims made against teachers are overturned once the union gets involved.

It does look as if in this case the teacher sadly was doing everything ‘on the fly’ and a bit of pre-planning would have prevented the whole case in the first instance. Too easy to blame H & S and compensation culture but it’s the world we live in nowadays and fifteen minutes filling out a form and a quick word with the Head would have been sufficient to cover him.

As James says, once all the original airframes have gone, be it through mishap or scrappage, then that’s it. However, in order to restore a historic aircraft there would be a need to change materials (old specs no longer available, etc) so in any flyer there has to be a percentage of non-original parts.

So, assuming that the only limit would be financial, and given that for every type for which there are at least some drawings and/or pieces remaining, thereby enabling the creation of replacement parts, then nothing is ever truly extinct.

My $0.02 anyway……

You can’t actually see the spoilers, the leading edge devices are deployed, which is normal during the slowing down of the aircraft down in the approach phase.

“Runways to Victory” by Peter Celis. A fascinating account of the Allied advance through Belgium in 1944-45.

You’re dead right, mrtotty; BAA have stated in the past that they make more from airport shops than they do from landing fees; in the latest snowfest, the bean counters were probably secretly happy to have an airport full of stranded passengers buying loads of food and drink.

Not bad…plenty of flights showing on the radar. No doubt well down on normal, but all of the usual suspects seem to be flying in or out. At the moment there’s TAP, Swissair, Etihad and Emirates, plus BA all in the approach.

Indeed; one single factor barely ever causes a crash.

As has been discussed on other forums, that was one time that abandoning take-off after V1 would have been preferable….however, given the information that the crew had available at the time, the decision to fly the aircraft is also understandable.

TFC’s Hawker Nimrod back in the air.

It already is…..;)