I will tell you how I afford it, I salve away in a resturaunt kitchen hours on end every sodding day to scrape some money together to go flying, how dare you.

R’s lies are beging to unfold. A couple af threads backs he told us he had just inherited a substantial amount of money that made it all possible :rolleyes:

Have you been having those monkey gland injections again?
M

NO!
However, mine is due to morrow. They are reserved for big parties only 😀 😉 😀

(PS let me have the phone number of the dark haired girl that served us in the restaurant in Keflavik – you are Icelandic, you MUST know her!)

Well, as a matter of fact, I know her. Her name is Steinunn and her phone number is 00 354 517 1773 😉 😀 😀

HAH!
You have my utmost respect. I had enough over Greenland and Northern canada last year to keep me going for a while.

Galdri, why have we not had a drink together . . .

Humm, I don’t know. I would really love to. I could quite possibly insault you and your aircraft 😉 😀

What is this red-ish thing doing in all the photos?

Wimp.

I know 😀 😀

Maybe you could teach me a thing or two about flying in that kind of conditions 😉

In my neck of the woods, the forcast for sunday seems like the first flying day, for something like more than 6 weeks, is about to happen. Think the CAP might get an airing.

The forcast for tomorrow eve, is really bad. SW 35 gusting 50 knots with rain and snow. Doubt there will be any flying :rolleyes: That’s what we called Wiskey TAF when I was an instructor 😀 😀

Ok guys, maybe I should not be entering into this debate, as I’m not a UK resident, and my tax does not go into these Museums.

Regarding the Hallibag, all I can say is, leave it alone! It is a fantastic monument in it’s own right. Me and my wive went to Hendon this summer and although I had been there a couple of times before, this was a first for my wive. What really stood out for her was the Halifax, and she is not the typical anorac. To restore it to pristine condition would effectively destroy it as an original airframe, and the cost would be just horrendous. Maybe it would be a better, and cheaper, idea to make a full size plastic replica, that way, those who want see how a Halifax looked up close would be satisfied. Besides, it would be just about as original as a rebuilt W1048 :rolleyes:

On another note, I’m constantly lightly amused by the ramblings that go on here from time to time regarding museum pieces in the UK. I don’t think you know how fourtunate you really are! At least you HAVE aviation museums, lots of them, and somewhere you can find an example of NEARLY all historic types (please note I said nearly, not ALL). To put things into prespective for you, Iceland does not have a SINGLE aviation museum, as such. There is one small hangar at Akureyri airport filled privately owned light aircraft (J3 Cub, C-140 etc.) that brand them selfs as a museum. That’s it. The Icelandic Historic Aviation Society has for years been fight an uphill battle, trying to save artifacts and airframes, and is not getting any support from any government body. In fact they actually TAX us for trying to save the country’s heritage! If it is not a Viking Age sword, we are actually punished for preservation of artifacts.

If you want to view the Icelandic Aviation History, you would have to excavate the southern end of runway 01-19 in Reykjavik. There are the remains of once proud aircraft. To name a few, AT6, Stinson Reliant, DC4, Proctors, Magister and Catalina, to name just a few. So if you ever fly into Reykjavik and land on RWY 01, you know you have just landed on the Icelandic Aviation Museum.

Rant over 😉