I operate from a farm strip and I think it will be very useful as long as the R/T is disciplined. More than once I’ve had visitors taxiing on to the active when I’ve been on final. This might have been prevented if Safetycom had been available.

Were they all open cockpit? It’s bad enough in a Tiger Moth at 100 mph. Heaven knows what it must have been like at 400 mph. And don’t the Italians know about colour schemes. Stylish doesn’t begin to describe them. Graet stuff.

What time does the display start please?

Talking of which, what happened to the film that had Lee Proudfoot in drag and flying the OFMC P-40 in Luftwaffe markings? I believe it was filmed in Ireland. Same movie perhaps?

Tres interessant. Combien des Meteors avez-vous la-bas? Which uses up all my French.
It looks like there is plenty of work to do.

It’s a Victa Airtourer (Australian, hence “ozplane”). It appears on a list of aircraft of “historical relevance”, the CAA’s words not mine, along with all the Austers and Concorde! They are being excluded from EASA legislation under Annex 11(a) to EC Regulation 1592/2002 whatever that means. It could be that we’ll all end up on Permits rather than C of As. Anybody heard any more?

If I remember correctly, the only reason it fetched up in the OFMC hangar was that there was a dispute over the cost of transport to the USA. It resided with OFMC until that was sorted and then went to Chino. It had only been partly restored and needed all the detail stuff to be completed.