Seconded. I was there last year, it’s a lovely little place.

British born and bred. Originally from Gloucestershire, then via university in West London and a brief stint in Cambridgeshire, to the wilds of Suffolk. Gradually moving further East, but if I go much further I’ll fall off the edge 😉

Originally posted by Moggy C
Nothing more I can add, I just wanted to be associated with the sentiments.

Moggy

Likewise.

I thought dish washing liquid was bad for paintwork? Too much salt in it or something. They always say not to wash cars with it. Of course, that’s probably the same ‘they’ as wants you to buy their car wash fluid. (Me? Cynical?) I’d make sure it wasn’t eating your aircraft, though…

Austin, Texas: Matt’s El Rancho on South Lamar, for the best Tex-Mex food anywhere.

I do not, however, recommend eating a curry anywhere in Texas. They just don’t get it!

Bird strike?

Overzealous farmer with shotgun?

Potato up the exhaust pipe?

Exploding bees nest?

Actually, the shot of the ‘Beautiful Doll’ RV-8 is mine, which I took at the New Braunfels, Texas, EAA fly-in earlier this year:

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The couple that owned it were very enthusiastic and even wore T-shirts depicting the aircraft, as her crew 🙂