Many thanks for the best wish’s.

Another year older-another year wiser? Probably not in the latter case.

Had the day booked of from work today as is custom on my birthday and decided that I would venture over to Cottesmore to try and spot some Harriers. Great day with cracking weather (which is a rarity) only trouble is nothing was flying.

According to the guards on the gate they had stopped flying for the easter break. Got some nice pics of the stations gate guardian and also the Wittering one. Will post some pics later.

Happy Easter everyone.

Stunning. Although it was nice to see a Spitfire in a non RAF scheme I could never get my head around the Irish colours.

This however looks stunning. Well done to all involved and thanks for sharing pics again Darren. 🙂

Cheers for the posting Adrian,

Im very sad to see the Utterely Butt scheme dissapear as that was a stunning colour scheme………….. but I can see this new one been a grower.

Good luck to the guys and of course girls for the coming season.

Some cracking picture’s there of some often and not so often seen types.

Especially liked the Shuttleworth F2b in the old grey/silver colours with the three guys swinging the prop.

Thanks very much for sharing.

Looks like the one that was for sale on the International Cockpit Club Forums for sale board about 6-12months ago. Cant remember how much it was going for then though. Wasnt a huge amount i remember that much.

Maybe not the most glamorous aircraft that will be suggested but I would have to go for mine and Robs Viscount F-BGNR.

Stunning picture’s of my favourite preserved Spitfire.

Now if only you hadn’t popped your name across the image’s I might have been tempted to change the desktop pic on my laptop. 😀

Ive got to say she looks a lot better now that she has a sky coloured spinner once more.

Why did she go to a black spinner after all those years. Was it historically accurate?

Being a bit anoraky I know but just wondered.

In one way I think your missing the point Damien. What we are discussing falls under two categories.

The first issue is that the photographers preempted the launch of the scheme.

Im sure any major sponsor wants to maximise their investment by unveiling the deal and colourscheme in their own way to generate exposure.Im sure the paid marketeers can do the job of gaining exposure far better initially than a few amatuer snappers. So the scheme to be leaked out pre-empts any publicity that they may have in mind.

Although slightly differant an ideal example in another industry is the launch of a new seasons F1 car. They hold the colourscheme back to do a launch where the journo’s and press attend to see the new scheme.

If that had leaked out to some trackside snappers do you think their launch would be so well attended?

The way I see it is that as the sponsor pays the bills so they should be allowed to unveil the scheme when and how they desire.

Secondly though after the initial sponsor launch she is she’s fair game 😀

The enthusiasts do place pictures in areas that publicise the aircraft and the marketing company might not normally hit. Great stuff. Additionally though the aircraft does need to be used more to generate exposure.

I do think doing enthusiasts days where for photographers pay X amount to be amongst a small number that can have access to the aircraft out on the pan would raise money.

Maybe like Hawker Hunter Aviation did through Flypast a few years ago where they had aircraft demonstrating undercarriage retractions,unlimited access, panels of etc etc would go down well.

The u/cart wouldnt be an easy one to do but youve got big wings that when folding look impressive. The first half of the day could be to take general pictures after that flex the wings and remove some panels for rarer shots, youd have people queing up.