There certainly are some closed-cockpit ones still knocking around, the one in Malta and Kermit’s example come to mind from the ones I’ve seen.

The pair are flying at Goodwood both days that weekend. The Canadian one is shown as being at Duxford on the Sunday on the CWHM schedule, so perhaps negotiations are still ongoing.

Several of the Spitfires have dropped off the list as well.

Regards the Spitfire going to Brazil -it went to the collection of an airline owner. That airline was looking at a big purchase of aircraft with ‘RR’ on the cowlings !

And they were choosing between R-R and P&W for their engines, hence the nice shiny formerly-airworthy birdcage Corsair parked alongside the Spitfire IX in the same museum.

And who do you think bought the MATS Connie and donated it to the Koreans? P&W again, of course!

I remember the spreadsheet you mentioned, but can’t recall it ever giving routes and waypoint times other than pre-planned flypasts, which is exactly the same information that they now give.

I’m not sure what additional info you require Alan. The BBMF schedule gives take-off and landing times, display/flypast slot times and destination airfields for each sortie. This includes refuelling stops.

As an example, this one is up until tomorrow http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/index.cfm?storyid=B4A7D8C0-5056-A318-A80AD708F6D63C62

The schedule for the weekend will probably be issued today or tomorrow, now PDA has been confirmed.

It may, but there have been quite a number of rotary-engined aircraft in the UK over the past three decades that have had extremely short flying lives, and I don’t think that the lack of an operational engine was the cause of any of them being grounded or disposed of.

PDA = Public Display Authority. They fly the routine in front of the AOC (Air Officer Commanding) who either approves (hopefully) or rejects it as being safe to perform at public events. The BBMF (along with all other RAF display assets, such as the Typhoon and Red Arrows) have to do this at the start of each season. The BBMF will now have to repeat this as a second Lancaster has been added in to their routine.