Look very agricultural to me.

Just found this among the cars at Goodwood. The workmanship on the Walrus looked good, chaps with the aircraft said it was off to ‘somewhere in the Hastings direction’ for work tawards airworthiness. They were asking for sponsors and donations. See http://www.projectwalrus.com

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n123/pogno/romsey-goodwood-augsept06212.jpg

Seems to work so will inflct some more on you.

Two Mustangs one high backed in very tight formation heading towards Goodwood for the Motor Racing Revival, no doubt.
Excellent event with some nice displays, best so far was last year when the P47 performed, also a year or so before that when they ran a motor race into the late evening, then two Mustangs displayed in the gloom with their nav lights on, very wierd.

The Bader programme was in my view good TV, my wife watched it(did nod off once but a nudge brought her round) which channel 4 should be proud of, mostly for the fact that they bothered to do it at all and not in a overly dramatic way. Some issues have been raised but that is inevitable with such a production. Atleast they didnt introduce some completely stupid factor into the plot like he had forgotten his lucky charm or was smoking the wrong stuff in his pipe on that day.

It was nice to see some period film of of what I think were Morane-Saulnier MS 406’s and some early Spitfires with black/white undersides, unfortunately the scramble and bell scene was repeated for the millionth time. Did make me wonder if more film existed from that period that we never see, held in IWM vaults perhaps.

One point that puzzled me was over the severing of the whole tail section on Baders aircraft, by whoever, was whether eight machine guns have done that amount of damage. Were cannon Spitfires in service at that time.

That looks just like a museum should, aeroplanes that appear as if they are serviceable and ready to be wheeled out at dawn and flown.

Sorry not a fan of displays that cram so much in it becomes difficult to tell whats what.

When the Vulcan flew in the display circuit under RAF ownership it certainly was a show stopper, thenderous high power climbs followed by gentle steep turns, all at relatively slow speed (155 knts to 300 knts), but neverthless very impressive.
If/when one returns to the skies under different ownership, operated as a civilian aircraft with crew training costs, fatigue limits, limited operating hours and fuel bills, would the displays be the same or would they be less exuberent.
Obviously no hope of slow rolls and rolls off the top like the performances in the 1950′ and 60’s. Shame.

The world trade in warbirds has given us the opportunity to see aircraft displayed that in many cases went out of use many years ago, it has funded projects to recover wrecks from jungles and deserts, and driven a whole industry for which I am very greatful.
The people involved in the trade have their passions which gives us the diversity we like and we must respect that. I would rather see one of my favourites leave our shores if it means something else replaces it. And that has happened many times over the last 40 odd years.