The spammers dump their rubbish late on Friday or a Saturday morning, to give maximum exposure before staff return to work and clear it out.

It would surely make sense to give a moderator the means to do this straight away, and discourage them from bothering.   Also there must be automated systems that identify and block this sort malicious posting.  

We know it is a feeble and unsatisfactory hosting system, but it must surely have some cyber -security functions ?

There is huge pent up demand for a dedicated warbird show, we have a very strong flying contingent in the UK and Europe.  The public seem to accept ( grudgingly )  £50 admission, to there is surely scope to run a successful  commercially viable event.

We have a lot of airfields with size to do this, the biggest obstacle is a corrosive post-covid mindset that everything is too difficult now,  and it is not even worth trying, which is total BS.

Off the top of my head, I would look at Little Rissington with hard and grass runways. and a rural perimeter, but there are loads of other options. 

This is an opportunity that should be actioned.   – ”If you build  it, they will come ”

Same day, better filming ! Corsair fly-by at Ferndale, MT, fly-in – YouTube

This saga has taken a rather macabre turn.

”Human remains have been discovered at the dilapidated former home of a military historian who was jailed for stalking and possessing an arsenal of illegal weaponry.

Officers arrived on Tuesday at Appletree Cottage in Chop Gate on the edge of the North Yorks Moors national park, the former home of Kenneth Ward, 72.  Police found, amongst a huge haul, a loaded Luger pistol under his pillow and the cockpit of a WW2 fighter plane with working machine guns.” –  Daily Mail online 6/2/22

”A MAJOR police investigation launched when human remains were discovered at a remote cottage has finally drawn to a close.

The joint investigation by North Yorkshire Police and the Ministry of Defence Police has resulted in the remains of two World War II airmen, who crashed down on the North York Moors, being returned to their families.

The probe into the discovery of the human remains and military memorabilia near Chop Gate has concluded without any charges being brought against a 74-year-old man.

The investigation, launched on March 31, 2020, resulted in a large-scale operation involving experts from the RAF and the Army, as well as forensic archaeologists who were able to identify the remains as male and more than half-a-century old.”

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19896379.remains-ww2-airmen-foun…

He’s not the Messiah.

https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2018/08/04/wolf-hound-scenes-filmed-i…

”There was little rain and amenable cloud coverage for the film crew at the Suffolk Executive Airport as warbirds sped off the runway and into the sky for dips and turns in Suffolk airspace. Cameras captured every twist and turn both in and out of the cockpit.

The crew had arrived in Suffolk on Tuesday to capture aerial footage for the World War II action movie “Wolf Hound,” which is currently in principal photography. Mechanics, pilots and four genuine warplanes from the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach were fuelled and ready on Friday afternoon.

Director Michael B. Chait explained that the surrounding Suffolk landscape was ideal for a skirmish in Nazi-occupied France circa 1944.

“We’ve had an extremely pleasant experience,” Chait said about filming in Suffolk. “We love it here, and we’re very thankful for the hospitality that the airport has extended to us.”

“Wolf Hound” takes place in the course of a single day in 1944 France. An Allied pilot is escorting a B-17 bomber into Nazi territory and engages a Nazi aircraft. The dogfight cripples both aircraft, and the pilots parachute into the forest below where their cat-and-mouse game continues.

Chait explained how the wooded areas of Suffolk make it an ideal filming location for these aerial shots.

“The area right around here looks absolutely perfect for the forests of 1944 France,” he said.

“Wolf Hound” is Chait’s feature film directorial debut. His resume includes directing music videos for artists like The Black Eyed Peas and commercials for Honda, the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, and other high-profile clients.

He said he’s been working with a team on the script for four years. The original story is based on the real-life KG 200, the German Luftwaffe special operations unit that operated captured Allied aircraft as Trojan horses to wreak havoc on Allied bomber squadrons.

Chait read firsthand accounts from World War II pilots that described “phantom fighter planes and bombers” that would appear in Allied formations with different markings, sometimes even with a swastika on the tail, he said.

“We definitely wanted to create a fun, exciting adventure thriller set in World War II that’s a great ride to go on, but does shed some light on a little-known, factual piece of history,” he said.

James Maslow will star as the film’s Jewish-American pilot protagonist, Capt. David Holden, according to the website IMDB. Maslow starred in Nickelodeon’s “Big Time Rush” and also appeared on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Celebrity Big Brother.” His solo L.P. “How I Like It” debuted in March.

Maslow has starred in films such as “Bachelor Lions,” “It Happened One Valentine’s” and the crime thriller “48 Hours to Live.” He said he’s always been interested in starring in a World War II period film and that he’s been a fan of action movies since he was a child.

“That little kid in me has not left,” he said. “I still plan on being an action star, and this film is such an amazing, magnificent step in that direction. I’m just grateful and happy to be a part of it.”

The museum provided three warbirds for filming on Friday: a Hawker Hurricane, Mk-IX E Supermarine Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang dubbed “Double Trouble Two.” Chief Pilot Mike Spalding flew the P-51 with Maslow in the seat behind him to capture Maslow’s character flying with camera shots of him inside the cockpit.

The air-to-air engagement footage is the work of aerial cinematographer Dwayne McClintock and aerial coordinator Craig Hosking, who was also the aerial coordinator for the intense dogfights in Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.”

“He’s like the No. 1 aerial coordinator and cameraman in the business, and I’m absolutely thankful beyond belief that he came out to do this with us,” Chait said. “He did some shots that I don’t think you’ve seen in hardly any movie before.”

Military Aviation Museum mechanics and film crew members worked out of The Fighter Factory hangar at Suffolk Executive Airport, and General Manager Tom Kurtz explained how each warbird was a piece of history. The Hurricane never saw action, but it’s just one of 13 that are still flyable worldwide. It’s also one of the three left that are built with the 12-gun design. Kurtz said the Russians used these planes for “tank busting.”

But the most historically significant museum craft buzzing over the Suffolk airport on Friday was the Spitfire. According to the museum’s website, this Spitfire flew in North Africa, Italy, Corsica, Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II, then in Italy and Israel after the war.

Military Aviation Museum Pilot John Mazza — callsign “Pappy” — was flying the Spitfire between 150 to 200 knots for aerial shots of engagement moves. He said he was smiling ear-to-ear in the cockpit. When asked how the plane handled, he quoted the late Geoffrey Wellum, a veteran of the Royal Air Force during World War II who piloted a Spitfire extensively in the Battle of Britain.

“’You can’t fly a Spitfire and forget about it; it stays with you,’” Mazza said inside the Spitfire cockpit, quoting Wellum. “Now I’ll give you a Pappy quote: you haven’t flown until you’ve flown a Spitfire. It’s the most graceful, maneuverable plane.”

“That you’ve been in,” Military Aviation Museum mechanic Frank Owens said.

“Ever,” Mazza retorted. “Even to this day there’s nothing like this airplane. If you go and ask anybody that flies a Spitfire from anywhere in the world, they’re going to tell you the same thing I just told you. The exact same thing.”

The Military Aviation Museum crew was excited to help bring real World War II planes to movie theaters as opposed to CGI.

“It’s an incredible endeavor. Anytime that we have the chance to participate in bringing history to life, we’re there,” Kurtz said as the Spitfire rumbled above the airport. “It’s what we do. We are caretakers of history, but when you boil it all down, we show off for a living. We show off for a living to keep history alive.”

Caretakers of history, or as Robert Dickson Jr. would say, “trustees of history.”

Dickson was flying the fourth plane at the airport on Friday, a P-51 Mustang he owns with his father called “Swamp Fox.” This plane underwent complete restoration for five years before the Dicksons purchased it in 2012.

According to a Hickory Record article, Dickson painted the plane to look like that of retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Will Foard, a World War II pilot who flew a P-51 Mustang in France. Foard named his plane after his hometown, Marion, S.C., which itself was named after famous Revolutionary War military officer Frances Marion, nicknamed “Swamp Fox.”

Dickson argued that you can’t replace the roar of the Packard-built, Rolls Royce-designed Merlin engine inside the “Swamp Fox.”

“It’s a very visceral, physical experience that shakes and rattles,” he said with engines rumbling the hangar. “It’s one of the important reasons why we still fly these things. It’s great to go see it in a museum, but you just stand back and go ‘oh, pretty airplane.’ But you heard it running out here, and it has a cool sound to it.”

Most of the Military Aviation Museum pilots flying on Friday have been airborne since they were just children, and all of them were encouraged by Chait and his crew’s commitment to authenticity.

“I don’t know anything about making movies, but I read the script twice,” Mazza said before takeoff. “I think every aviation buff will go to it. Every World War II buff will go to it. Every action movie fan will go to it, and I think thousands and thousands of young girls will go to it because of James Maslow. He’s the heartthrob of all the young girls now.”

It’s actually personal for Maslow, because his grandfather flew B-17s in World War II. His father told him that his part in the movie came together this year on what would have been his grandfather’s birthday.”