Which of the 5,264 results was the one Tim was searching for?
I understand from a post on UKAR that they moved from whatever software they were using to a content management system to run the whole Key.Aero website.
I gather it was never designed to run a forum and from my point of view, as I never, and I mean literally never, look at the rest of the site it was a disaster.
I suppose if people are using the rest of it, it could possibly be called successful – but at what cost?
I wonder why I didn’t lose my post count and “seniority”? I did briefly become non-existent which James sorted out after I had to use the “Joe Public” contact form as nothing else would work. Could that be it?
I think this is it Tim.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/52354-ray-hanna
The forum search has been hopeless for years anyway. The last complete platform change just made it even worse.
For future reference for anybody, I found it with Google using this search – “ray hanna” site:key.aero
Even then it was on page 7.
It’s a Sunderland, not a Catalina. The floats are fixed.
We’ll ignore the one from the 3rd of March. I’ve never understood that sort of post. What’s it supposed to achieve?
There’s a discussion on Pprune that started a few months ago and I think the consensus was not as well as Duxford – but as Duxford was particularly suitable, where could?
Personally I suspect Sywell is the only place near enough to possibly make the show viable. There were all sorts of suggestions thrown out but given the running costs of WW2 fighters and similar, and the availability and logistics of enough pilots for the show, I can’t see anywhere further afield would have any chance of making financial sense.
I think it may be better to not reply and leave the spam post last. There’s then a chance that Bruce or Peter will spot it – obviously Key won’t.
It appears that they haven’t for a good year or so.
I’ve been on holiday for a couple of weeks or I would have replied earlier.
To Trolley Aux: However many times you use it, premadonna is STILL not a word. I assume you mean prima donna yet again.
The people you don’t know but have the sheer brass-necked nerve to describe as demanding something and that’s why they aren’t here any more include, just off the top of my head to be going on with:
By general consent the worlds’ leading Spitfire historian and expert, at least two experts in WWII camouflage and markings, a noted naval aircraft historian, several owners and pilots of historic aeroplanes spanning a range from light aircraft to fighters, more than a few people who work for “classic” aircraft companies as restorers or technicians, and several published authors.
How dare you have the nerve to be rude about them and accuse them of handbags flying? What have you done?
On current form, I guess that the chances of Key doing anything about him are substantially less than zero, whatever guff they spout about monitoring the forums.
We just need to hope that Bruce or Peter will spot him.
Who are you to be calling people you don’t know prima donnas? At least I assume that’s what you meant… Some of us have been here an extremely long time.
I think that’s pretty well guaranteed. The number of missing previously regular posters is staggering.
I don’t know about anybody else, but advance bookings put me off completely. If I have to book in advance, I don’t go.
Certainly it seems to resemble a forum again – at last.
There’s still wasted white space but not acres of it as there was previously.
Functionality remains to be seen.
No, not even nailed there. It’s shuffled off this mortal coil, pushing up the daisies, etc..