More congrats

See, and you thought you knew everything!!!!
Great news, congrats to all on a fantastic achivement. Look fwd to seeing her out and about over here.

Been a good day, my wife gave birth to our new daughter at 6.15 this morning, its those two willys!!!!

Congrats to Steve Fossett and all the Vimy team, awesome!

Yet more congrats Bod. Trust Di is well and Charlie is looking forward to meeting the new recruit. Better stop work on the BE and start looking for a four-seat project. Jackaroo anyone?

Am told there is an American built 1.5 Strutter for sale in for £80k – lovely looking aeroplane, my fave WW1 type in fact seems pretty reasonable to me…not sure whether its the one used in Flyboys though…

Which reminds me Blue Max and GASML – nice pix in the mags – re the BE2 how about a paint scheme from Lilbourne or Easton on the Hill- good Northamptonshire link…

And while I’m at it has the Messenger been flying again (I’m only a chuffin Trustee no one tells me nuffink)

TT

I’m sure Ken Kellet might well be amenable to parting with his 1 1/2 Strutter before it leaves the UK, if only to save him the job of stripping and re-assembling the darn thing again!

It really is a very nice aeroplane, powered by a 220hp Continental (the same as a Stearman) – and about the same price too.

Catch him refueling at Sywell on Sunday and make him an offer Ben!

Sorry to any who turned out, particularly on Saturday and didn’t see aeroplanes. I was ‘back-seating’ in G-AIYS and I can tell you that it was good common sense that kept a lot of aeroplanes from completing the route!

I think we were the last out of White Waltham on Friday, to scrape into Upavon just before the storms which washed out Glastonbury. Not long after we got to Yeovil the visibility clamped on Friday evening and it didn’t lift above minima till 4 the next afternoon!

After that we decided to head back East rather than North, groping our way back through the murk to White Waltham, after the clag stopped us even getting over the Chilterns. Of course come Sunday, the sun came out just as we were pushing the aircraft back into the hangar at Henlow.

B….y typical!

(Nice flying though Val !)

Now this is what the forum is all about. A good bit of daydreaming.

Anyone got enough money to sponsor a Comet / Britannia flyby?

Would love to see the pics, but for some of us all we get is an FSNordic.net screen. If someone has the softwear to open the pics, any chance of reattaching them so the rest of us can see them?

The current Top Gear base remains Dunsfold for the moment, although there have been rumours of a move to a location in Oxfordshire – no doubt closer to home for Mr. Clarkson!

The studio sequences are shot in one of the former Harrier assembly hangars and ‘the Stig’ does his stuff on a track made up of the main runway, taxiways and peri track.
The test track is also used regularly by McLaren cars too, for giving demonstration rides to prospective Mercedes SLR supercar customers!

Message to Tony Bill?

Thanks very much for sharing your photos tcatco.

I met some of the pilots from “Flyboys” after the show at Old Warden yesterday, a fine bunch of chaps. I feel sure that they’ll be returning to Old Warden sometime during the season, I wish they could bring some of the “props” with them.

Rob

The word is that director Tony Bill reads these threads – so what about it Tony?

A Nieuport / Sopwith balbo flying into Old Warden at the end of filming would make great pre-launch film publicity!

1) Because we enjoy flying, not talking
2) Because we are non-radio
3) Because we are talking to somebody else
4) Because we are on Safety Com

VFR is see and avoid.
An FIS gives known traffic only.
Moggy

I spend a bit of my time flying non-radio (and a bit more almost non-radio!) and I was brought up to believe that its good to talk, but certainly not vital.

Another pilot I fly with has a more pronounced policy

“I’m not fitting a radio. They won’t let me talk on the phone and drive, why should I have to listen to that lot while I’m flying!”

(It’s all right, I won’t tell them your name, Arthur!)