They’re all valid complaints/comments but to me the biggest single problem is it’s an absolute eyesore.

There’s acres of wasted white space and it bears no resemblance to every other forum I’ve ever seen. Did somebody decide everybody else was wrong?

Pprune did a similarly unpopular “upgrade” a couple of years ago but the powers-that-be there listened. Key didn’t.

I hadn’t noticed that it had actually gone, I just thought it had disappeared off the first page.

I suspect that the new forum is collateral damage from the introduction of the eyesore Key.Aero portal which presumably somebody must be very proud of. As nothing to improve matters has been done after several months, and no word from Key, it seems a fair bet it will completely fizzle out fairly soon.

A real shame when you consider the vibrant discussion board it once was.

I also am intending to cancel my Flypast subscription after 25+ years, and bought in newsagents before then. Not least of the reasons is their habit of printing text over pictures. It’s too much like hard work for these old eyeballs!

It just proves that at my advanced age I shouldn’t rely on memory…

It’s probably RS709, now in the National Museum of the USAF, but I’m pretty confident it used to belong to Doug Arnold.

When the Museum of Army Transport closed, one of the options was reputed to be Elvington but how much of that was hot air from enthusiasts and how much was genuine I’ve no idea.

It seemed like a better plan to me, being much further away from salt water.

A mate of mine has taken that principle to extremes. What he calls his tapping hammer has a 1.1/2 to 2lb head but only a 4 inch shaft.
Come to think of it, apart from the real violent ones, I think all of his hammers are that sort of size with a range of shaft lengths.

Well for what is worth, I love the Griffon powered Spitfire. I think there’s nothing better!! Knocks spots off the Mk1Xs. (There, that’s that can of worms opened!!!)

Despite being in a probable minority, I’m with you.
Sitting in the Friends of Duxford enclosure at Legends with the Griffon growl in front and bouncing back from the American Air Force Museum behind was seventh heaven.
I’m also not generally particularly fond of the silver with red (? – RN201’s been gone a few years) stripe colour scheme but for some reason RN201 was always my favourite too.