Some beautiful photography – and lots more museums to visit sometime…

confirmed to me what a bunch of big-headed prima donnas they are

“That line is utter nonsense and quite offensive…
This ridiculous notion To suggest that they are somehow “big-headed” is quite the most inaccurate and stupid comment I’ve seen in a long time.

Wow – being called ridiculous, offensive, inaccurate and stupid in one paragraph is a record even for me – thanks!
BTW – I’ve been briefing military aircrew, both as a civilian and in uniform, for the past 36 years. Sometimes individuals, sometimes to 100+ massed audiences, from scores of different nations, and scores of different roles.
I have also briefed the Red Arrows on several occasions, so I think I’m qualified to comment on the impression they left me in comparison the rest, so get down from your soap-box!
But maybe they’ve changed since the 1990s…

45 years on, and still no sign of the Tracy brothers…

RAF Lossiemouth is due to have a new control tower built very soon, and the estate who actually owns the land the airfield is built on have stipulated the old 1938-ish control tower has to be demolished within a month or so of the new one going up.
A WW2 K-type hangar was recently demolished to clear a location for the new tower…

Much better photos than I could manage with my little 7 Mp happysnapper – well done!
What a great day it was – I’ll never forget those 16 Spits tail chasing each other around the sky…

Shows how fragile and fleeting a person’s life is…

They are all at it if they think they can get away with it!

Always loved the scheme on my local RN Whirlwinds – dark sea grey and dayglo orange.
HAR9 XN310 at RNAS Lossiemouth (HMS Fulmar) Station Flight in the late 1960s. The aircraft was lost after ditching in the English Channel 16/4/73…