Yet with all the knowledge gained from the loss of Titanic and subsequent revisions, the Brittanic still managed to go down as they left all the portholes open…

Its the same thing that stops us with the Shackleton; the fact that CAA won’t grant an extension on an aircrafts life beyond that specified by the manufacturer.

As a result, come what may, eventually it will run out of hours. The four years or two display seasons is probably an estimate to how long that will take to use.

My copy of his book on the Avro Lancaster is probably one of the most read books I have. Sad to hear that he’s gone.

I had heard that Coventry’s Nimrod had been visited again, one of our visitors to the Shackleton mentioned it so I’m guessing its noticeable.. I didn’t get chance to get away and have a look for myself. Maybe one of our Classic Flight forum members know more?

Rich

I was two weeks into my job with the military. I got a text message about a plane hitting a building in New York, then a minute later the phone system switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree and it all went mad from there.

After things had calmed down somewhat we opened the mess and got the TV on, watched the footage of the first building. When the second plane hit none of us reacted to start with, we thought it was a replay of the first.

I always wondered, why, with all the news helicopter up there to start with (before the lockdown) why did nobody try to evacuate anybody off the roof? Even just a few lives saved would have been better than none.

the main one being wether jets of that complexity should be in private operators hands !!

We’ve covered this already. Read further up the page will you? There’s no point in doing it again.

and herein lies the problem you’ll never get round

” i must have my impressive toy doing what it was dasigned for and s***w everyone else !!

there but for the grace of god it din’t hit a shopping centre or a school during a weekday or even the crowdline out of control !!

the idea of safty is to minimise risk not heighten it !!

if you actualy concentrated on facts rather than your enthusiastic sefishness

the reality is they are aircraft that should only be in millitary hands

i don’t even list all jets as in the same category

but the shear reason this aircraft is so loved and so impressive is the reason it will never fly here again no matter how much we bit** and complain

it is a twin engined afterburnered ballistic missile wich our country has the sense to keep in its correct place !!!

For pete’s sake…

Listen up. Nobody cares how YOU classify aircraft. The CAA in each country do that, and THEY make the decision on safety. Why on earth shouldn’t an aircraft do what it was designed for?

If your idea of safety is to ground everything then you are retarded. That’s the kind of idiotic overzealous attitude that prevents teh UK from being anything but a shadow of its former self.

Me concentrate on facts? I’ve quoted you facts. I’ve quoted you references. You don’t listen, or seem incapable of taking it in. You’re also ignoring other people giving you facts and information.

Come up with some proper facts youself. All we’ve had are opinions from you, and weird ones at that. You’re getting boring now.