The show is now fully sold out both days. It will be interesting to see how rigorous the attempts at enforcement of the field closures are – there were noticeably less people in the fields at the July show this year.

Are you sure it was advance ticket only? I have been to a number of events at Stow and been able to pay on the gate at all of them, without exception.

I’d love to see you make a valid economic case for that, with a potential market for an absolute maximum of one or two other customers, more probably none.

Unfortunately with the Shoreham accident it becomes four aircraft losses . In terms of a percentage of the total numbers that have flown in U.K civil hands it’s a high accident rate.

The US experience is similar, with seven airframe losses (five of them fatal) reported by the NTSB since 2000. A total of around 16 Hunters (almost all of them ex-Swiss examples on government contract work) are still active according to the FAA database.

Indeed. They fall under the auspices of the MAA rather than the CAA. The MAA have not deemed it necessary to ground any Hunters, or have any specific inspections undertaken, nor have the FAA in the US (where about 15 are also being operated on contract to the military). Read into that what you will.

What happened to the “I’m going home in a minute” at Duxford this morning DCW? 😉

A very sore point. The Canadians were extremely unimpressed that the Beaufighter was supplied to them by the RAF Museum (an exchange deal with the Bolingbroke now in Hendon IIRC) with no engines or cowlings. Their response was to park it outside for the next 30 years.

Don’t go there. Please. Not even remotely funny. 🙁