I wonder why they have not started to think outside of the box for funding: they can’t use volunteers day to day, well why not change your funding model.

Display the aircraft at Airshows for free, but then have a massive team of volunteers with buckets collecting as the punters leave….or as she is flying.

It won’t work, you have to get the punters to pay while the interest is there (before or during the event), once the interest has gone (flown away), the likely hood of collecting money drops rather rapidly.

Anyone who has done event photography will tell you this. It is much easier to sell a photograph onsite, there and then while the punter has an interest rather than placing them on a website for the punters to buy later.

Is it former RAF Ouston

My have room for one next year, but will have to be delivered to France 🙂

Obviously it’s a Phantom Swedish Phantom !

The difference between us is that I would hope it continues to give pleasure to many hundreds of thousands of some of us over the next 1,2 3 years or more.

What difference ? If it continues to fly, well and good, I will continue to watch it, if it doesn’t then it will be a loss but not a great one in real terms.

No doubt out friends at the British Legion will be having their annual poppy appeal shortly and I very much doubt ANYONE will be ranting that they’re ‘at it again’ or ‘out with the begging bowl once more’. No, of course you wont.

Several reasons why your observation is wrong, the RBL do a lot of good work supporting ex-servicemen and their families, they’re not there for entertainment purposes. They have been collecting for this purpose for 89 years and I don’t ever recall them threatening to close down the operation because they need another £xxxk to keep themselves going. To be quiet honest your comment is offensive.

Yes I will give to the RBL, before giving money supporting a large piece of triangular shaped tin which quite frankly is just a large hole in the sky into which money is being pored.

It’s not a question of like or dislike, it’s a question of being realistic.

A travesty of what, exactly?

The continue requests for money, it’s like a scene from men in black, there is always another plea for money around the corner.

It’s time to ground it.

Hi Paul

I was told a few years ago that acting on a tip off from the chaps at Bletchley and also to disguise the source, coastal command would often send out an aircraft to stooge around the Channel Islands looking for suitable targets, this would then be followed up by 10 Group and their squadrons to catch the surface vessels on the move.

How true this is, I have no idea, and unfortunately can not remember the exact source to re-check the details and how they knew this.

There are certainly accounts of Sunderlands flying low over Jersey, which must have been frightening for the crews considering the AA concentration on the Island.

Just caught up with this programme, having missed it at the weekend due to family commitments.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and don’t think the involvement of the McGregor brothers distracted from the story and the history one bit.

In fact, if it made little Johnny put down the Play Station to watch a bit of history because O’B wan Kenobi was flying in the back of an old aircraft, then their inclusion was well worth it.