Apart from the CoG issues just imagine what might happen opening up the throttle on takeoff! I’ve a Wacky Races-style vision of a sound of splintering wood, the DH9 staying stock still while the disembodied Centaurus tears off down the runway all on its own

Wow! Looks pleasingly healthy under the paint! Mind you, having sheltered underneath it one wet FL a couple of years ago, I’ll be interested/nervous to see what the underside of the wings around the flap actuators looks like…

Terrific stuff Eliott and John both, many thanks!
All gone a bit quiet on the BHHH 109 front, I really hope the paperwork is done in time for it to attend some shows this year. Can’t help thinking it would be a wonderful sight chasing N3200 around the bend at Old Warden, although having read Eliott’s article I can’t imagine JR would want to risk operating it from Shuttleworth’s runway!

Wonderful stuff! I was about 12 or 13 when this Spitfire started its rebuild, so it’s been down an out most of the time I’ve been attending airshows, and I’ve never seen it fly. Bring on the summer!

A Lightning was famously scrambled to shoot down a Harrier in the 1970s – if I remember correctly the Harrier had developed an issue and the pilot ejected but the pilotless Harrier kept on flying, and was deemed to be a threat to somebody or other’s safety. Unfortunately I can’t remember where or when this was, but I’m sure there weren’t six of them! Classic fighter pilot claim exaggeration maybe?!

Seem to recall one of the magazines this month had a hint that an airworthy US Sabre was headed to Europe somewhere – It wasn’t the Golden Apple F-86A coming back, a later variant I think.

Quite, and displays I’ve seen by the Sea Vixen and JPs since Shoreham and the new rules certainly show that there’s no need to restrict to straight and level flypasts. Still, it seems like the damage has been done, and I’m sad that I never got to see this Meteor fly, and probably won’t again now…