Hi Duncan,

Both days are accessible to the public. Content of the shows on both days is usually identical or nearly identical.
The friday is generally the less busiest of the two days though attendence could be as high as 100-150.000. On the saturdays attendence is even higher, though this year both days might be affected due to the football championships (though I don’t know if the Dutch are playing on either of these days.)

Harm-Jan Strating

Thunder City is in the Cape Town telephone-directory. You might give them a call before setting out for a visit.

Harm-Jan

Excuse my ignorance but is this the machine that was formerly with Aces High at North Weald?

Harm-Jan

Hi JDK,

Only some 700 combinations possible with VH-XXX? I must have been sleeping during my maths-lessons (long, long, long ago!). My calculations show 17.576 different possibilities, happy to be proven wrong though by someone who was awake during the lessons.

Harm-Jan

Hi Benno,

I just checked to see where I got the original information from. I apparently got it from the book Zij Vielen Rondom Zwolle (They fell around Zwolle), written by J.L. Schotman and published in 2001 by Ijsselacademie. The information is on page 93. Hope this helps.

Harm-Jan

Easy. From the day I was born there was a photograph in the hall in my parents house opposite my bedroom showing my dad climbing the stairs of a beautiful KLM L-749 when he was about to leave for New Guinea. When that’s what you see first every day you get out of bed you’re bound to get hooked. Second to this my fathers stories and photos about the Dutch Navy Catalina’s on the lake’s in New Guinea, still amongst my favorites.

Harm-Jan

No complete Stirlings survive.
The RAF museum have the motal remains of a crashed Stirling and there are two museums in France and The Netherlands that have some substantial aft-fuselage sections. Also in The Netherlands is a mock-up of a Stirling frontfuselage with many original fittings. A search on this forum should produce more info and some photographs.
There are several initiatives to recover or reconstruct a Stirling and although the people involved do invest a lot of their time and money this has not yet resulted in fysical results (apart from a substantial amount of recreated drawings which in itself is a tribute to the dedication of these people).

Beware; some people on this forum might mention a Stirling that apparently should exist in China. I’ll believe them when the aircraft shows up at Legends.

Harm-Jan