Sandwiches, coffee…..’hot cans’! I really think you’re letting the side down a bit for Old Warden!

Next year I shall expect you to enter into the spirit of things; white linen tablecloth (ironed), china plates, crystal glasses, silver cutlery…..and food to match!

Ah but to do it properly I would have to get my 1965 Rochdale Olympic restored and unfortunately there isn’t mucjh chance of that happening any time soon

WJ, next time would you be able to take your own food? I picked up a ready to go sealed salad and croutons from the supermarket, with a flask of coffee. And some sandwiches for back up! Although I didn’t contribute to OW funds, I’m content, looking at the brisk business, they’ll have done ok.

I could have taken my own food but I have to put up with sandwiches all week and it is too late for hot food when I get back from Old Warden as I have to get up at 5.30AM for work so that I can escape this awful island my other half insists we must live on before the traffic becomes gridlocked.
I am sure OW did OK from the catering on Sunday but with a little more effort and thought they could have done even better than OK and scored major customer service points as well. The OW estate caters for weddings etc so they should have been able to plan to cater properly for the likely demand for food on the day.

Sorry I missed the forum meet. My watch is broken and I was beside the Bristol Scout when I found out it was 11.45 which was a bit late for the meet.
The show was great although the music during the Fauvel display wasn’t my cup of tea.
Thanks to Paul Stone for the talk on flying the Comet.
Only gripe was the catering. I grabbed a breakfast early on as I knew it could be a problem. At luchtime I queued for an hour for a sausage bap to be told they had none and those that had been put on the grill a good 20 mins before I got to the front wouldn’t be ready for at least another half hour. I had already had enough bacon for one day so I had to queue again at the burger van for almost another hous so I missed the Hurricans/Seafire and the Dakota displays.
Shuttleworth knew this was a sell out some time ago so they had plenty of time to organise more catering outlets and you wonder at the wisdom of putting something on the menu that takes so long to cook. Maybe burgers would have been better alternative to cumberland sausage as they cook quicker so they would have had a better chance of having them available all the time.
I walked past the people who had been run over while the medics were attending to them. It looked quite nasty and I hope that they are all on the road to recovery.

Around that time N6356T was a regular at Biggin Hill shows. I think it was 1968 when one of the Falcons parachute team landed in front of the Mustang and his parachute fell into the prop. Fortunately the pilot turned the engine off very quickly and the parachutist escaped unhurt.

I attended a lecture he gave to the local Raes branch in the 80’s which I really enjoyed and he was quite happy to talk to everyone afterwards. Never forget his displays in the Pitts and Stampe. He will be missed.

Sabrejet I think Scotavia was actually replying to post no2 which asked if there were actually two DC-4s at North Weald.
The situation is that both DC-4s arrived there over 10 years ago now having been acquired for use in a planned film about the Berlin Airlift. The film never came to fruition and the DC-4s have gradually mouldered away and from memory I believe they have been offered for sale at various times with no takers. There should be another thread on the forum about them which included some photos. At one point there was a plan to keep one of them in live condition but I assume this has fallen through. Restoration to fly would be extremely unlikely after the amount of time both have spent in the open at North Weald. Like most airliners no one in the UK seems to want to take either of them on partly because of their size and the expense of moving them and having spent so long in the open even a static restoration would probably require major work. It is true that the DC-4/C-54 has a military history but doesn’t seem to be regarded as a significant aeroplane on this side of the Atlantic. It is a real shame that one has/is being broken up but having seen them several times since they arrived it has been pretty obvious for ages now that they were living on borrowed time.
Hope this clarifies the situation for you and if I have got any of this completely wrong I apologise and will happily look at any posts which provide more reliable/up to date information.

Thanks for the update. I marvel at the work you have put into K7 and admire the skill and the dedication.
Real shame about the Barracuda – a decision that I am sure they will come to regret in the future.