Russell Group Emil?! Sweet Jesus! 😮

As a bit of shameless self-promotion, I posted a large thread here detailing my Friday experience a while back. 😀

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=97318

I’ve only been doing the three days for the past couple of years and can’t recommend it enough. Can’t speak for the pre-2008 Fridays, but I’ve always been lucky in seeing a full day of flying. What’s great is that many of the aircraft that display on the Friday are involved in multi-aircraft sequences over the weekend, so you get to see them from a different perspective. There’s just a wonderful atmosphere at Duxford on that day.

Hard to say as obviously they are new builds but a Bearcat is faster than a genuine Fw190 A8.

Indeed, the Bearcat has some 2,100hp to play with compared to the original FW-190’s 2,000hp (with boost). Maximum speed-wise, the Bearcat pips it at 421mph to the FW-190’s 408mph (with boost), so quite similar in those respects. From memory, the Bearcat’s rate of climb is almost 2:1 to the Focke Wulf’s – something like 4,500ft a minute to the ‘190’s 2,570ft!

Once the FlugWerk machines have been worked up to a full aerobatic routine, I’d be very interested to hear how to two compare – or indeed, how they compare with any other warbirds of that era.

That’s a terrible thing to say! Wasn’t it Joe public that has been sponsoring the Vulcan to fly? What about the air displays and hangar tours.. no major ceo dropping million dollar cheques in the box rather it was joe public dropping money in the box..!

Only a very small percentage (can’t remember the figures, but it wasn’t many thousand) of airshow goers have actually donated to the campaign, in 2008/9 anyway. The figures suggestthat the majority of donations came from enthusiasts, a fair few of whom had repeatedly pledged or donated. Sure, it’s likely that a fair few people threw a few coins into the bin on their way past the Vulcan Village, but I don’t think you can say that the Vulcan has been hugely popular with the general public – certainly not enough for them to have donated significant sums of money.

They simply have more important things to worry about – after all, why would a family who has already paid for two adults and two children want to donate another tenner towards an aircraft they couldn’t care less about?

That’s the harsh truth of it, I’m afraid. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

Assume he was referring to the full participants list on the website (first post) under “Performers and Attractions”.

7 B17s, B24, Me262, Bf109, 6 P51s (inc. the Horsemen), 2 B25s, Super Hornet…quite the show right there!