RE: Yet another Spitfire yawn!

Got any of G-FURY or G-HUNT?
Never got to see either of these.

RE: Flying experience

I am not a pilot but i love to be thrown around the sky as often as my missus and the money allows. Unfortunatly flying in the U.K is an over-expensive hobby. Myself and a few friends from work save every week then when there is enough we fly, none of that boring straight and level stuff but high G aerobatics. We’ve had a few let downs with pilots promising this and that but they’ve never come through.
The aircraft i have flown in are Extra 300, this gives the ultimate ride and is my most flown type, i have also flown in an L-29 Delphin unfortunatly lost at Eastbourne, then there is the Harvard, had 1 ride over here, very mediochre, then went to Florida and went up for an hour with Warbird Adventures, this is the best ride on offer, unless you can afford Stallion 51 which do the same as the Harvard crew but with Mustangs, which brings me to a ride i won with the Tiger Squadron at Duxford where i won a ride in the Breitling Fighter Mustang, ORGASMIC. I have also flown in a Christen Eagle and a Stearman, they were different, Yak-52 is o.k depending on who’s flying it.
Top of my wish list is the Hawker Hunter followed closely by the Gnat,but to fly in one of these in this country is a rip off, a Hunter costs about £800 for an hour, whys the cheapest ride £1500 then, in the U.S you could get a ride in a 2-seat Super Sabre or Starfighter for that.I would like a ride in an L-39 and Yak-11.
The list could go on but the bank account don’t allow it.

RE: Thunder city colours

I’d say they paint them black to make them more visible as they are such high speed aircraft.

RE: Supermarine Swift up for grab

This aircraft has been up for sale for a long time,she started at $275,000 and has been dropped to $200,000,yes thats dollars not pounds and include delivery anywhere in the world,she also comes with all the documentation and drawing that Supermarines did on the Swift F7.
I doubt that she would ever fly in this country as those w**** CAA people will not allow any aeroplane with reheat to fly in civil hands.
When on a visit to Bournemouth a few years ago she was there under restoration to fly,and the engineer i spoke to told me that the fuselage was ready for fitting out and they were waiting for the wings to return from being x-rayed,if this was successful then they were going to speed up restoration.
It’s a real shame as this would be a fantastic aeroplane to see fly,talking to Ray Hanna,he told me it was a nicer aeroplane to fly at low level than the Hunter,only being bettered by the Meteor F8.
Tim Manna what are you waiting for?

RE: TFC Mustang

As far as i was told by TFC engineers at the october show she will be returning to the skies as Princess Elizabeth but she will be highly polished like Kermit Week’s P-51B and not painted.

RE: Whistling Mustang

The whistling is actually the air passing over the gunports on this particular P-51.She is also fitted with a more powerful merlin engine than usually fitted to P-51’s and she has a governor fitted to keep the speed down.
I just wish that she would be returned to her MOOSE/CANDYMAN markings as she was europes best looking P-51 in these markings.