As you know Mike, I’m gutted that Hahnweide has been cancelled. I attended in 2011 and 2013, each time spending a full 5 days at the airfield, and it will be a long while before anything surpassed the warmth of the place, to say nothing of the breadth and depth of visiting aircraft. If you’re a vintage enthusiast, Hahnweide was perhaps the event for you.

Crossing my fingers that it returns in future years, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

Lovely video, that. We at Global Aviation Resource are currently working on a couple of G-SABR articles, the first of which we published today – this being test pilot (and Shuttleworth Collection pilot) Keith Dennison’s take on flying the F-86A. Keith was kind enough to pen this article for us and it gives a fascinating insight into early jet operation.s Hope it’s of interest! Part 2 is a work in progress but will be coming soon.

http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/10/17/aviation-feature-f-86a-sabre-g-sabr-a-test-pilots-perspective/

If I can do a little shameless promotion, my review of the utterly brilliant Race Day is linked below. For me, it was one of the airshows of the year – tied with, or second only to, Shoreham. A tremendous effort from all involved.

http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/10/15/airshow-review-shuttleworths-race-day-airshow-2014/

If you’d told me this time last year that I’d be seeing two Lancasters, the de Havilland Comet, four D-Day veteran C-47s flying together, nine Dakotas gathered in one place, a SAAB Draken, two Mew Gulls, a Mystery Ship and two BE2s (to list some of the highlights in no particular order) all in the same year, I’d have called you a lunatic and thought no more of it.

What a stunning year. From a historic aviation perspective, I can think of few finer.

I’ve been several times over the years and have never had any issue with the staff there. They asked that photos were not taken and that cameraphones were deposited in the safe in the shop. I complied and wandered the museum without being tailed like something out of the Bourne Identity.

I’ve found few more personal and profound museums out there – the fact I couldn’t take photographs had no bearing on my experience whatsoever. Just respect their policy and get on with it, says I… :very_drunk:

One of the overlooked appearances during the tour was the duo’s appearance at the Old Warden Flying Proms during the first weekend of the tour – take a look at those lovely golden sunset shots in the attached link!

http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/09/22/aviation-event-review-old-warden-flying-proms-2014/

Goodwood is the perfect venue IMO – large grass airfield, lovely backdrop, long runway(s), ample parking off-site, has the infrastructure in place to deal with massive crowds (it services something like 120,000+ over three days for the Revival, and I’d imagine a similar number for the Festival of Speed, each year without any issue) and the roads are pretty good. Certainly, the traffic’s never that bad and the car parks/access roads are spread out to avoid too congestion in one area. You’d be shooting into the sun, which people would moan about, but it’s a small price to pay for an airshow at such a lovely venue. You could even have a curve in the crowd, if you wanted to. If only Lord March was as big an aviation enthusiasts as he is a car enthusiast…

Headcorn would be ace for a smaller scale vintage show – something along the lines of Little Gransden. Parking never seems too bad at their larger events either, although local roads may suffer and I’d imagine the Headcorn town residents kicking up a fuss over the noise…