Go on then, what am I missing?

Lanc
Spit
Anson
Swordfish
Sunderland
Tiger Moth
DH9
Lysander
Harrier
Hastings
Vulcan
TSR2
York
Wessex
Lightning
Comet
Jaguar
Strikey
Mosquito
Oxbox
Canuck
Dove
Canberra
Whirlwind

It’s said that any of us involved in the preservation of anything, be it classic cars, aircraft, antiques, hell anything really, are only ever the guardians of it. I can’t help but think that the people entrusted to be the guardians of this particular piece of history (and I only mean the chiefs, not the ‘guys in the hangar’ who are absolute stars) have made a complete balls-up of this duty and let everyone down. I hope they’re never entrusted with anything with any heritage importance ever again. Not to re-cover old ground, but Waddington really was the last straw for me.

There, spleen vented…

Baby steps sir, baby steps! Not aircraft related but I slowly and surely worked up to sneaking a B series engine indoors for fettling. I went to work on the Monday quite smug at this feat and looking forward to returning and working on it in warmth and comfort over the weekend, but when I returned Friday it’d magially sneaked back out all by itself into the yard. Nothing needed be said…:(

That is a beautiful colour scheme, she looks great.

Sorry Hot_Charlie, never saw your post earlier than mine about demand for appearances by 474 :o.

Just seems to me a really good thing from the point of view that more people get to see a flying Lanc in a typical year, revenue generating never came into my thoughts. If i see the Lanc once a year I’m lucky; anything more’s a bonus.

Did 474 appearing with 558 at Waddington in ’08 not count as formation?

Yes Mr. Thomas, very nice chap. So is the general rule if you’re ex-BBMF you can be trusted to fly ‘formation’?

There’s making mistakes, then there’s dropping a huge, massive elephantine clanger! Waddington was the ‘homecoming’ show for 558 and she was let down by the ‘office boys’ not making sure all the t’s were crossed and the i’s dotted. I saw her at Sunderland, but it only partly made up for the disappointment of not seeing her on home turf. I wonder how much of the fighting fund sending out all the begging letters is taking up anyway…?

Cheers for that, wondered for a while what the rules were