This was also covered in ‘Aircraft Illustrated’ recently so you might find some answers there.
G-AGSH is actually owned by Philip Meeson, but is on loan to the Bournemouth Aviation Museum in return for hangarage. It attends several UK aviation events during the year and will probably be at Woburn in August.
To the best of my knowledge it attended just one event last year.
It has not moved this year and is in the hangar at Bournemouth.
A Concorde.
Sea Prince WP321 (ex N7SY) is now G-BRFC and owned by Andrew Dixon, owner of Pembroke G-BNPH.
There is talk that she will fly again and both of her engines have been run in recent months.
Ganavan Sands, near Oban – a friend lives within 1/2 a mile of it and in the times that I’ve been there, I’ve not seen a control tower. Last time I was there was Summer 2006 and I saw nothing that looked like one.
Try this forum:
http://www.ajpap.com/
for some French.
I went looking around for shots of ZZ190 and ZZ191 today and found this one taken of ZZ191 at Bournemouth a few weeks ago:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1027146/
I guess this may turn out to be a fairly rare shot if the Swiss flag is to be deleted?
It was seen outside on Tuesday wearing its new markings of RP-C-8023 (sic) and doing high speed engine runs.
Since then it has been inside.
BASCOs closes on 22/12/06 for good so a departure next week seems likely. I presume an air test or two might be in the offing for early next week but I could be wrong …
St Athan has Phantom XV500 (painted as XV498).
G-CBEL flew on a test flight from Bournemouth this morning.
Not rumour, fact.
She’s now inside the BASCOs hangar.
The third Boscombe Down Harvard was KF314.
‘Jets are for kids.’ (with a Connie logo.)
‘Real aviators drag their tails.’
‘I’d rather be vintage flying.’
‘Real Typhoons don’t have jets.’
‘Would the last British aeroplane maker in the building please switch off the light?’
‘Flight without feathers is not easy; flight without wings is just plain dangerous!’
1. Jilly Goulden (and her bizzarre comments about wine).
2. ‘Letter from America’ by the Proclaimers (almost enough for capital punishment for those two Scottish ‘crooners’).
3. Lazy people who expect others to answer every question that pops into their tiny minds without putting an ounce of effort into it themselves. (I am thinking of several people here!)
4. Arrogance and ignorance. (Sometimes the same people as in 3. above.)
5. Snobs. (Often a subset of 4. above.)
6. Getting a Q in Scrabble. (Suddenly there’s a global shortage of the letter U.)
7. Transavia AgTrucks (was the designer having an off day?)
8. French and Saunders. (I swear their work is torture on an unwitting World.)
9. Julian Clary. (No need to comment.)
10. People who claim to be experts in their field when in truth they have little expertise and even less knowledge. (Often found in 3. and 4. above.)
11. The good folks at the BAA who are gradually removing every viewing facility at BAA-owned airports and thereby reducing the opportunity for children to develop an interest in aviation that so many of us found in our youth by being in such places.
12. BMW drivers. [Can anyone tell me if there’s a sticker that reads: “I NEVER give way to BMW drivers”? I’d buy a stack.]
1. Jilly Goulden (and her bizzarre comments about wine).
2. ‘Letter from America’ by the Proclaimers (almost enough for capital punishment for those two Scottish ‘crooners’).
3. Lazy people who expect others to answer every question that pops into their tiny minds without putting an ounce of effort into it themselves. (I am thinking of several people here!)
4. Arrogance and ignorance. (Sometimes the same people as in 3. above.)
5. Snobs. (Often a subset of 4. above.)
6. Getting a Q in Scrabble. (Suddenly there’s a global shortage of the letter U.)
7. Transavia AgTrucks (was the designer having an off day?)
8. French and Saunders. (I swear their work is torture on an unwitting World.)
9. Julian Clary. (No need to comment.)
10. People who claim to be experts in their field when in truth they have little expertise and even less knowledge. (Often found in 3. and 4. above.)
11. The good folks at the BAA who are gradually removing every viewing facility at BAA-owned airports and thereby reducing the opportunity for children to develop an interest in aviation that so many of us found in our youth by being in such places.
12. BMW drivers. [Can anyone tell me if there’s a sticker that reads: “I NEVER give way to BMW drivers”? I’d buy a stack.]