Very interesting to see how it was 31 years ago. The aeroplanes ( the ones still with us ) are timeless, they look exactly the same but of course it takes its toll on us !

This footage was no doubt released as a video, and at the time would have felt a rare and specialist product, as the only other material you generally saw on a screen was a TV production. Yet now, its production values look rather clunky and DIY, such is the march of technology, that your ordinary mobile phone will now give you footage of a sharpness and clarity that blows this footage into the weeds, and tiny cameras which can be mounted anywhere now give us unimagined views.  

I see the same with books, the photography of the time often looks soft and grainy, and most would be deemed un-useable when placed alongside contemporary  hi-res digital imagery. I suppose most of us still have a stash of once-precious VHS tapes  (aviation !) in deep storage which we will probably never get round to looking at again, even if we still had a VHS player. I fear the re-cycling centre beckons ! 

HP111, I don’t know how may threads you instigated, maybe it was plenty, but nevertheless, it is ongoing contributions that keep this forum live,  and it would be for the common good if you could help with that.

It has been much more lively this year, and your gloomy outlook is disappointing to hear. 

Just at the moment, the natural shape and chronological order of the forum is being disrupted by a single poster who is daily and relentlessly reviving multiple decades old threads for no good reason that I can see,  such that I would classify him as  mischievous and a spammer, who should be blocked if he will not cease this habit. 

There are about 14 Bf 109’s/Buchons flying in the world:
Canada: 1 (N109GF)
Germany: 6 (D-FEML, D-FMBD, D-FMGS, D-FMGV, D-FMGZ, G-AWHM)
United Kingdom: 3 (G-AWHC, G-AWHH, G-AWHK)
United States: 4 (N109GY, N109TS, N42109, N90602)

—–Purposely not included: Bf 109E G-CIPB hasn’t flown since 2018 (work continuing on its engine in Europe, early 2023). The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum’s Bf-109E WkNr.1342 N342FH hasn’t flown since before 2020.

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The continuing growth of the Spitfire rides business carries on defying gravity ! With 4 at Biggin, 2 at Dx, 2 at Goodwood, 2 with Aero Legends, and the Grace Spitfire at Sywell,  that is nearly a dozen, yet they all seem busy.

I would have guessed that three would have satisfied demand, just shows how wrong you can be! 

It has been a real boost to warbird flying, though, and there must be numerous new pilots now checked out on Spits, as a result of this boom. Its all good news. 

Forty UK flyers now, then. (inc Seafire) 

United Kingdom: 40

AB910, AR213, AR501,

BM597, BS410,

EE602, EP120,

JG891,

LZ842,

MH434, MJ444, MJ627, MK912, ML295, ML407, ML417, MT818, MV293

 N3200, NH341,

P7350, PL965, PL983, PM631, PS853, PS915, PT462, PT879, PV202,

RN201, RR232, RW382,

SM520, SX336,

TA805, TD248, TD314, TE184, TE308, TE311,

X4650

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Great progress on the Westland Whirlwind fighter reproduction. Really good work !

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