For our Lancaster, we require 5000′ minimum.

Thank you for your reply.

At 3116′, East Kirkby is a little on the ‘tight’ side then!

Presumably the runway is going to get an extension when Just Janes restoration is complete.

The post code would suggest that this event is somewhere in the Nottingham area?

Mark

Hucknall Aerodrome. Probably the last year this will happen, as the airfield is shortly to become a housing estate.

I don’t think anybody is accusing the Canadians of not doing due diligence, but the rules are pretty clear on carrying fare paying passengers. Like one or two posters above, I am interested on how they have got permission to do it.

That issue aside I can’t wait to see it.

What’s the TBO on a Merlin these days?

I guess you would need to put in £200 to £300 / hr in just for the engine fund.

I am struggling to see how the spinner can be ex Hastings. It must have been some mod if it is, as last time I ran a Hercules on a Hastings it had four blades!

Others who have had day to day contact with the CAA are better placed to give details but bottom line expectations and costs are spiralling for certification and I suspect this may lead to more aircraft moving abroad. The US, Aus and NZ seem to have struck a happy balance which has lead to many of the skills and projects heading in that direction. They seem to have a thriving business even in this climate….so it can work and be safe.

Dave in your first post you accuse the CAA of potentially killing the warbird industry ‘stone dead’. I asked you for evidence to back this up, and you replied with another sweeping statement about costs ‘spiraling out of control’, but no evidence to support this claim.

I really don’t see this, in fact quite the opposite.