Well worth it if only for the collection of gliders, which you don’t often see in a national museum. Also several of the early Russian jet fighters and as Halcyon Days has said the “Mig Alley” is just amazing. There must be half of the old Polish Air Force lined up and it does make you think what would have happened if the Cold War had gone “Hot” when you consider there were all the other Warsaw pact countries with a similar line-up..
Thanks for the “heads up” on Andre Turcat. Having been the first pilot to fly Concorde he could at least say he had outlived that seminal aircraft. RIP Andre.
Roborough, the Taylor Mono G-APRT is alive and well and living in the Newark Museum. It has been very nicely restored but I’m not sure if it’s to airworthy standard. The Garland Bianchi Linnet G-APNS was a British version of the French Piel Emeraude homebuilt. There was also a version called the Fairtravel Linnet.
I guess the Agusta guys feel the same but reading on they are going to retain the Agusta/Westland “brand” so how does that work? is the Wildcat going to be a Finnmeccanica Wildcat or an Agusta/Westland Wildcat?
CD, I think it is more to do with getting the emergency services to the incident rather than traffic density. Whatever, next year’s shows are going to be different.
As I understand it, in future if the traffic on the M11 and A505 stops then the airshow stops. This is as a result of the Shoreham crash and I believe it was implemented at the September show. Perhaps by going all ticket,the relevant authorities will have a handle on the potential traffic and gear up accordingly.
Perhaps prospective prepaid visitors might feel more comfortable if there was the prospect of a refund if the weather precluded any flying at all. I believe, after a general outcry about this problem at the Test Matches, a system was introduced that if there wasn’t a ball bowled then you get a 100% refund. Clearly a 100% refund wouldn’t work at Duxford as the aircraft would have been positioned and the show infrastructurs sorted but perhaps a voucher for a reduced rate at the next show or reduced entrance fee could be offered. I realise the organisational structure is different for Legends but I’m sure something could be worked out.
Looking at the pictures it rather looks as though there is more than an outer wing section….but not much. However a price tag of $700K would indicate that some work has been done and there seems to be a new-build cockpit section in the Platinum photos.
Really interesting review. What is sad is that there are so many UK types (Meteor, Canberra, Jet Provost, 748, Jaguar) that we could sell back in the day. Still I suppose there are some Airbuses in Ecuador which are at least part UK built.
Pleasant though the pictures are, as a private pilot I would be a bit concerned at having a drone in close formation. Aren’t they restricted to a certain distance from an object anyway? Interesting that one crashed yesterday trying to deliver drugs/contraband INTO a prison.
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