Is it just me or does anyone else think the red dot in the middle of VR930’s fuselage roundal is tad on the broadside (Maritime pun)? 😉

No you’re right – it’s too big!

And no-one has mentioned wind-breaks yet…;)

Flood.™

….a few baked beans might change all that :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I wonder if Columbia Helicopters will buy them. They’ve bouhght many of the 107s that have come on the market, including the ex-Pam Am machines that used to fly into New York City.. So if you ever wondered what happened to the helicopter you can see Clint Eastwood flying in at the beginning of “Coogan’s Bluff”…it’s now somewhere being used for logging, heavy lift and fire fighting.
I had a conversation last year with a Columbia exec at the HAI convention said he indicated they’re always on the lookout for more airframes.

…also the one in James Bond’s “You only live twice” that drops the baddies’ car into the sea!!

Thanks for those.Looks like it was pretty mixed weather, much the same as down south! Any surprises there?

I owe it all to my father, who was in the RAF during WW2 flying on 215 Sqn. B-24 Liberators in India. In the ’50s he joined the Royal Observer Corps and had some great air shows. My first air show was Farnborough 1958 and once I had seen 22 black Hunters make a loop, that was IT – I was hooked. Dad proceeded to build Airfix kits for me and teach me, then it was trips to Heathrow and the reggie-spotting started in 1961, with b/w photos being thrown in for good measure with a Box Brownie! It was all ‘down-hill after that with serials being logged, air shows, collecting photos, trapsing round London’s airline offices collecting postcards,making kits….and it got worse when I sharted taking slides when I was 16!! Ah well, it’s kept me off the streets and away from booze and women…well, at least for a few years! :rolleyes:

Wouldn’t it be great if the viewing terraces were still open at Heathrow like this taken in 1961? Oooh, I spy a Loftleidir DC-6B, BEA Vanguard and Viscount – much better that all those boring Boeings and Airbuses today!

G-AOBU is owned and operated by Kennet Aviation at North Weald. S/N P84/6. Total hours: 189 at 31/12/2003. Currently painted as XD693.

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Why is this never seen anywhere? Are they having problems keeping it airworthy, does anyone know?

This is Mirage IIIE, No.515 which was been preserved there since at least August 2001, according to “European Wrecks & Relics”.

Self, wife, sprog, father etc etc, having parted with large sums of cash 🙁 will be heading for Biggleswade tomorrow.

As I’ve not been there for 25 years 😮 , can anyone suggest where the best place to be for the flying is (and any other hints)?

…under an umbrella!!! 😮