What gets my goat about these airport/road protester types is that they ignore the years and years of public enquiries, planning enquiries, lobbying of govt etc, and yet when they seek to impose their narrow view on the rest of us they claim to be doing it in the name of democracy.

I’m afraid I’m (just) old enough to recall when it was a monthy filled with current and historical aviation subjects, the latest military and commercial news, even a model columnn. It was edited by the great William Green and Gordon Swanborough.

At some point it was renamed Air International…then AI dropped the historical elements. Anyone know why?

IIRC, it briefly became Air Enthusiast International, then (as current) just Air International. So the old Air Enthusiast that J Boyle and myself recall with such fondness, and which was a kind of successor to the old RAF Flying Review, still lives on even if it’s a mere shadow of its former self. The quarterly (?) Air Enthusiast we’re talking about here was introduced later (obviously after the monthly changed its name) as more of a digest type read. Haven’t bought one in a while, but last time I looked at one in the shops it seemed a bit pricey, especially when there’s so much to read for free on the dear old Interweb.

I know we’re not supposed to say this kind of thing nowadays, but just look at their photos; they’re not normal. I suspect the real justice will be meted out to them in jail. Certainly hope so.

Saw someone do it in a Rallye, probably at an RAF Finningley show in the late 70s or early 80s, but I haven’t got a clue who it was.

We should also be thankfull that they have the aircraft right and the place right:dev2: .John.

Yeah, normally we’d expect something like “The new Boeing A380 Megadreamliner lands after its aerobatic display at New York’s Old Warden airport”

Forgive my ignorance, but is the second to last one the new Mk4 Nimjob? Didn’t know one of those was going to be there.

You ******- for a second there I misread that and thought you were referring to Vulcan XH558.

Teaches me to read before getting excited, booking the next year off work and buying a camera that cost more than my car…

Be ashamed…:D

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