I’ve heard of ‘bottleglass’ lenses, but that’s ridiculous! I used to have a lens that took photos like that!!

I would to see the J-32 Larsen that still fly’s in Sweden come over to the UK.

I cannot see any major issues with it flying here as its not as complex as the Sea Vixen and the CAA allow G-CVIX to fly.

A couple of times in this thread people have mentiond that the Shack cannot fly here due to the fact that a respar would be required.

Would it be possible to do a PA747 style respar I am talking from a technical point of view here as I understand the cost would be about £5 million. (Lotto funding time again maybe 🙂 )

No point importing a Lansen as no one else seems interested in the type – have you seen the one at Cranfield lately??

Crazymainer – Some in the U.K would argue that the B-24 sent to the U.K
from Lackland AFB is justified seeing as the U.S has two ex RAF India B-24’s
on display. Do people in the U.S really miss the Lackland machine as she looked pretty sad with silver windows sat outside. Come to Duxford sometime
and see her transformation into a princess!

Quite agree – all the transparencies were ‘blacked’ over and she was just baking in the Texas heat! How many Libs do they need in the US?

A friend of mind went there today and said there was nothing new to be seen and that he was refused admission to the park, so spent the day dodging men in dayglo jackets to get his photos! Decided not to go this year and would prefer to look at my memories from Woburns past. Here’s one I took during a flypast over Woburn in 1987…..
…and one of Charles Masefield flying the DH 60 Cirrus Moth, G-EBLV, over Woburn House on the same day.

i first went on a commercial flight in 1994 on a md83 alitalia from dussledorf – milan as i had to get tooth pulled out in german hospital i was living in sardinia at the time as my dad was in R.a.f and was based out there i had flown 5 times before from R.a.f. Brize Norton to R.a.f Decimumanu and back via R.a.f Brugen in germany always on a vc10. we checked in like usual but then we went into the departures area which i hadent done before as at r.a.f. bases theres a room with seats and a drink and food machine and then you go on the aircraft but this place had shops and everything we were called for the flight and we went to row 3 as we were in buisiness class the R.a.f paid for it. we had a nice lunch and the flight was smooth we landed at milan and were rushed to meridiana md83 waiting for us to go to cagliari. it was 7:40pm by the time we got to the a/c. we went to the back mof the a/c and up via the steps in the rear of the plane we took off at 8pm and had a pleasent flight i slept through most of it but awoke when we were decending we flew over the marshes in cagliari where all the flimingos were and landed at cagliari elmas airport at 10:25pm when we got off my dad ans sister where waiting for us and we headed off home they where good flights and good taster of commercial airlines 😀

The key to the left of the ‘?’ on your keyboard is a ‘full stop’ and to the left of that is a ‘comma’, just in case you don’t want us all to get breathless reading this!! :confused: Oh sorry, I forgot, they don’t teach punctuation in schools these days!

It gets worse, Albert…

…so if you liked being up close while they were landing, not any more?

Mind you the view is better from the hillside anyway.

Edit – oh and it appears you can’t join the club on the day any more, so no chance of access to the aircraft park if not already a member. Bizarre. :confused:

Looks like a digital Canon job + 100-400mm lens only, eh? Just the weather to worry about! Think I’ll give it a miss this year, like Steve suggests.

Hi all

Surely the point is that both Winston and the Canberra have gone to a great home with a museum that can keep them flying for as long as possible and that the Seafire will also be up and flying – this way we all get to see more old aircraft flying – I can assure you that these aircraft are very much loved and appreciated here and serve as a memorial to the types service in war – Both types were used in anger by us. I was privalaged to actually fly FAC for the Aussie Canberras in Vietnam a couple of times and I get a bit emotional every time I see her fly here.

I am also a Seafire fan and I come to the UK as often as possible – I will gladly pay good money to see her fly.

Lastly at the risk of being boring as I have stated many times – don’t bemoan the UK losing aircraft as UK museums have a fair smattering of Australian machines, This is just normal movement and we should be glad all these machines find good homes with people who are prepared to look after them.

My two bob’s worth

Regards
John Parker

John,

The question was posed by a British enthusiast here in the UK. Regret we are not all like you and can afford to jet off all round the world to see warbirds. We know ‘our’ warbirds are being looked after in Aus, but that doesn’t stop us morning their loss away from our shows. Personally, as a Seafire is only a Spitfire with a hook (and we have loads flying here now) I would like to see the Meteor back, as we don’t have a single F.8 flying here now.

So it looks like if we’re going to enjoy Woburn this year, we will need more co-operation from the Moth Club, the CAA and the weather?? The combination of all three could be disasterous!