If nothing else, maybe this tragic accident may make ‘free-loaders’ think twice about where they stand to watch a display. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but to my mind there is a big difference between an airshow accident that happens outside the airfield and involves an innocent passer-by driving along a road on their way somewhere, and an accident outside the airfield that involves someone who consciously chooses to avoid paying an airshow entry fee, and who instead regularly watches the display from outside the airfield, but very close to the display line/runway axis.

Neither the time nor the place. So called ‘freeloaders’ are a hot topic on this forum, and you are using the Shoreham crash as a chance to fortify your argument? Pathetic.

Do North American Plains Indians or, at any rate, those living near wooded areas, have anything to report on this matter ?

They are too busy running Casinos to notice.

I’ve heard that there was a spike in big cat sightings in the UK immediately after a change in the law regarding ownership of exotic pets in the ’70s.

An incredibly sad occasion, especially after the loss of the Gnat earlier this month. I found the footage, as repeated across multiple news channels, very upsetting. I also saw some footage captured just after the accident itself, of the aftermath. I think it is too early to jump to any form of conclusion, including the long term impact on airshows that this incident might evoke.

Harry Enfield is somehow lauded for reiterating the same four sketches across multiple seasons. I don’t get it. :apologetic:

There is a Nord 1002 at Duxford, apparently.

I agree with your last paragraph. As a Scot I’m used to the usual stereotypes about us as well. Our cheapness (probably born in part out of Presbyterian attitudes), our penchant for alcohol, our anti-English sentiments, our overly simplistic Braveheart-tinged national pride which is indicative of our general low IQ (often touted by the UKIP crowd, make of that what you will).

Having said all that, overly sentimental fair-weather scousers (who all grew up on ‘Scotty’ road) who spent most of their adult lives avoiding the place unless it was for their own strategic advantage, come across as disingenuous idiots and perhaps some crude stereotypes offset the farce slightly. I know one or two people who took the death of Cilla quite badly, though none of them ever met her or knew her personally in any way. As I said before, this post-Diana form of overly public mourning seems like distasteful window dressing to me. Ms Black’s family are entitled to grieve, in private, but using her death to cement her reputation as a true scouser, as the tabloids have done, seems at best misguided and at worst woefully short sighted. I’m surprised that the media is so willing to overlook Cilla’s famous, and widely reported, attitude and personality offstage for the sake of peddling a ‘rags to riches, backstreet Liverpudlian done good’ narrative. Didn’t they do the same for Savile? Different scale of a problem for sure, but that saccharine one-sided coverage of the death of somebody with 1) a bad reputation and 2) a sycophantic following of people who never met her would perhaps call for some slightly more even-handed journalism, no? Why wipe the slate clean and carp on at length about Sir Cliff’s vocal performance?

That reads as precisely the sort of ‘review’ that might be written by someone trying to cover up the conspiracy. Who wrote it, who does he/she have contacts with and what are his/her affiliations?

Are you high? The cover of that book alone reveals the sort of puerile garbage it will almost certainly contain. Wet-brained idiots thought The Da Vinci Code revealed the inner workings of the Catholic church, so I guess people are pathologically drawn in by anything that graces the pages of a book. Or, to put it another way, conspiracy theorists generally take pride in questioning mainstream sources (wake up sheeple!), but then pay well over the odds for, in this case, potted Nazi fan fiction, tickets for lectures and tacky merchandise. I could set myself up as an ‘independent UFO researcher’ tomorrow and never go hungry.