I wonder how many of the original line up stayed earthbound through lack of available pilots yesterday, I note Hurricane ‘Pegs’ was absent, i think PT gets Stu Goldspink to fly it when he is in one of the others.
But Stu was in UP-W yesterday.

‘Pegs’ is poorly, minus an engine at present I believe.

Many reasons kept aircraft away yesterday, 3 of the originally-scheduled attendees have since been wrecked. The softness of the ground was a concern to some operators, especially of the heavier Griffon Spitfires. Pilot availability, weather, unservicability, and the inevitable warbird operator politics kept others away.

Kudos to the Duxford operators, who managed a full contingent of available aeroplanes. Well done, guys.

Also a huge pat on the back to Shuttleworth, who still had their Sea Hurricane join up with the North Weald section even though the en-route weather precluded the transit flight to Goodwood earlier in the day . It would have been so much easier just to have scrubbed altogether, but they still made the effort.

75 years of the RAF?

Was he the “hairy ginger nut” I thought he was still a serving member of the Armed forces. ACC helicopter pilot ?

Oh dear. It seems many here are as hazy about the facts as the media they love to deride.

Pot, meet kettle.

They don’t take off until noon BST, the 11am times are UTC (GMT)

…which is this coming weekend I believe

They didn’t ask for it to be stuck to the windscreen. I would have thought that anyone with even a modicum of common sense would simply lay it on the top of the dash.

The Anson, Proctor and Venom all attracted high bids of £48-50k, below the reserve in each case.

It’s about time they parked the bloody thing for good, before something critical drops off and someone gets hurt.

It is still lurking, unrestored, in the back of a hangar at Duxford. It is now owned by the IWM, although how it fits in with their stated policy of only having genuine German-built wartime Luftwaffe aircraft in the collection has never quite been explained,