Silly old sods should’ve retired to enjoy their Grandchildren years ago :rolleyes:

Some might say that ‘musically’ they retired about twenty five years ago. :rolleyes:

There was a wee old Jimmy who used to drink in my old local in Glasgow years ago. He used to be an aircraft engineer, working mainly in Africa. He used to tell me some amazing stories about his experiences out there, but I’ll always remember the time he told me about climbing inside the hold of a 727 to search for an electrical fault, to find “organic matter growing” amongst the wiring ! 😮

Oh, I wonder which particular charity calendar that was? :diablo:

I never got to find out, sadly… (snigger) 😀

Here’s my experience…

Took the money straight from my account

…never sent me nowt….

…dont reply to emails….

…dont ever answer the phone.

Sounds remarkably like my dealings with Ryanair when I attempted to purchase one of their charity calendars.

In all fairness to Ship 741, one has to consider that Heathrow and Gatwick will become saturated at some point in the future. It is better to start planning early in that case. But the first point was the proposed cost. Obviously a lot of guys are going to try line their pockets out of the deal.

Expansion and development of regional UK airports into long haul, point to point with newer, less fuel hungry types such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 would potentially take the pressure off of Heathrow and Gatwick to expand or indeed be replaced. I suspect those of us currently fed up being herded through LHR only to fly back across our own neighbourhoods enroute to North America, for example, would welcome such a development.

Methinks Virgin Atlantic already have an eye on this approach with their GLA experiment the past few years and subsequent 787 and interim A330 orders…

What about Alan Lancaster (he was one of the founder members) and John Coghlan.

They both fell out with the front men years ago didn’t they..? Sadly a trait so common in many a band. Maybe U2 should get a gong for being the same line up in a successful rock band since the band began in 1976. Ok, maybe just the bassist for being the token Englishman amongst the lineup…;)