Nice video and it looks like Charlie Brown in the Spitfire but where was it taken? I used to take my Airtourer for servicing at Audley End and I don’t remember it being as open as that. I’d guess at Duxford?

i’m living this thread with you Dornier. I’ve got an Airtourer which has been great fun and relatively cheap to run over the 27 years I’ve had it. However it’s just coming off it’s C of A, for which, in addition to all the other costs, it required two new magnetos at a cost of nearly £2K. As the aircraft is probably only worth about £10K in the depressed market it does make you ask yourself if it’s worth it. However every time I put it away after flying I think it is and worry about the bank balance later. By the way there are some good and relatively inexpensive aircraft tugs on the market which might prevent you getting a slipped disc moving the Dornier in and out of the hangar.

Excellent. Some culture on this forum at last.

Not aviation but didn’t we all see the Mall filled with “British Engineering” at the end of the last Top Gear series. Quite incredible and it gave the lie to the naysayers that say we don’t produce anything mechanical anymore. Everything from JCBs to the latest F-type Jaguar.

A personal opinion but I think helicopters look much better with their rotors fitted. I guess it’s a space issue but they look very “unfinished” without them.

You and me both SadSack. It would be very tricky at the moment under current CAA rules but a new head of GA has been appointed and it is rumoured that there may be some relaxation/modification of the rules in future

Glad you think I’m a young man Snoopy. I bet I’ve got a few more grey hairs than you. You will note that I didn’t make any comment about the salute/wave and I’m sure it was the latter. However, having worked in Germany, I am aware of how sensitive the Germans are about anything that even vaguely reminds them of the Nazi regime and who can blame them. That is why I was surprised to see this photograph published and that is all! I do remember going to an airshow in Bavaria when a Ju 52 arrived from the UK with a swastika on the tail and the comments in the crowd which amounted to “das is verboten in Deutschland”.