Just had an update from the lovely presenter seems 2pm local time earliest now guess thats 7pm UK time ???

the bridge is still closed, its unsafe to drink coffee and the calf is doing fine with false legs and rain is on its way ?

They said on the news channel they’re still going to show it live so fingers crossed 🙂 I’m sure a reporter there said earlier she’s going to be reporting live from the B25, unless I misheard

Lovely new reporter said about 10 minutes ? :love-struck:

hopefully the only snafu of their trip !

from the CWH “Slight delay in departure. Because of full fuel on board, we elected to tow the Lancaster onto the runway for start up to save the brakes. However flooded number 2 engine on start up. Hopefully airborne within the hour”.

Yeah latest news is she hasn’t left just yet, I’m back on the live stream now in case they cover it properly

me too

being of work im tuned in now. Hanger doors just opened interesting interview with the chief pilot, apparently they are arriving in the UK at 1330 not sure if that BST or GMT though on Friday

I can remember going to shows at Duxford be it Legends or their main September show when during the morning big band or appropriate themed music was played, i think this helped the crowd to relax and soak up the atmosphere at such a historic airfield.

During the 2010 show a tape of Winston Churchill ‘few’ speech was played as 16 spitfires taxied out it didn’t drown out the sound of all those Merlin engines and in my opinion enhanced the act like many have said it can enhance the show if played right.

perhaps during a Spitfire tail chase with a Bucon one could play simulated gun fire and even commentate as a reporter would during the time. Isn’t there a clip of a reporter describing an attack on a convoy from Dover he was watching ? for die hard aviation experts it would obviously detract from the display but for the majority of Joe Public attending an airshow it could be a worthwhile discription of what is trying to be recreated ! Just my opinion i know and probably not worth much :very_drunk:

I used to live here its somewhere between Canvey Island and Southend. If you look at the picture top is the end of Southend Pier, Mid centre is a Thames Barge and to the left are oil/gas containers these could be Canvey Island or on the opposite bank from the angle of the picture its probably about 1 mile the grey splodge in the middle is the top of a sand bank out in a place commonly know as the Ray Sands. Hope that helps. See image (black line is Southend Pier, red line is the Ray , red dot is the probable spot open to interpretation in or out the black cross is the approximate position of the barge and blue dots are again approximate positions of refinery containers)

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“I have herd Friday ” You heard wrong…….but then weather/maint/number of pigeons on runway may affect the day and then you may be right, but currently not correct, what ever your source.

When we tried to be clever and say we were going to Old Warden the weather gods didn’t like our game so for now we just stay quiet…

3rd of the way down on the right but like i said depends on many factors

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