Before becoming too excited and pinning a date, you might want to give the chaps at the YAM a call. Elvington is not ordinarily open to airborne visitors, although I am sure that they would have no problem with a small fly-in.

Knowing that 04 was long enough (are you serious?) for the JP to land (you are kidding me – arn’t you?)

I might well be! 10 was our only option, and the JP does exceptionally well in a crosswind.

Wolverhampton is fine (obviously can’t tempt you to any real cross-country flying yet Bluey!) The food was OK-ish but nothing special the last time I went there.

Name your date – the sooner the better. I’m sure I shall be able to find a willing victim to come along with me.

Janie. You were welcome to the fashion advice. Green is so YOU! Next time though darling, lets talk beforehand to try and make sure that we don’t end up coming in the same frock 🙂 We don’t want to look like a job-lot.

Bluey, Anywhere with 1000m or thereabouts of reasonable quality tarmac would do the job nicely for me. Much less than that, and I would be forced to resort to a piston-powered beastie. Perhaps you might even get it up yourself for the next one?

Lovely to meet people and put some faces to names. A good turn-out for a February Fly-in 😀

I look forward to seeing the evidence. Google doesn’t look hopeful. The world assocates Bob Hoover with the Shrike Aerocommander.

I have had the pleasure of sitting in Bob’s Aerocommander, still a fine aircraft, after all those adventures. I have also got over 500 hours in AC12s and AC14s (The other kind of Commanders) so I reckon I can tell the difference too 😀

I think I had reached the conclusion that the font size was chosen for the benefit of Vintage Pilots. 😀