Smart looking ship but old by today’s standard. I hope she can go on trading some where but I doubt it.

It is now the intention to supply everything by air. Don’t order a Bulldozer and a brace of JCB’s though!

Nothing to add to the thread other than to see it is good to see Mark12 posting again!

Snob? Just because I look down on inferior beings. I will get my Footmen to set the Hounds on you and keep your grubby colonial hands off the coachwork of my Bentley. Snob indeed I have serfs horse whipped for less.;)

Muhammad Ali

Not my tribute but from Speedbird on Britmodeller who I agree with word for word.

Today the world has lost one of its greatest sports personality and a great ambassador for human kind. He was without doubt unequaled as a fighter grace, speed and agility were his hallmarks and I don’t think anyone has surpassed him . As a human being he displayed all that is good. He was a gentleman, he was kind, his humour was infectious and above all he was a principled man who stuck to his beliefs regardless.. In later life he displayed great courage through out his illness and no doubt was a great role model to many.The world is a sadder place without him.. My thought and prayers go out to his family.

Some bloke who did a bit of boxing and a lot of boasting…;o)

YEE HAW spoken like a true Redneck inbred!

I was not going to reply any more but can I quote this later gentleman who in my opinion was the greatest pilot this country ever produced.

“Captain Eric “Winkle” Brown, a former Fleet Air Arm test pilot who has flown Hunters and was at the air show, said the most likely cause of the crash was pilot error.
He said: “At this stage if I had to make a guess I would say it was totally pilot error. I think he started the loop too low, which meant he didn’t have time to pull out when he completed the loop.
“As I was watching it I was thinking he had started to pull up too low. I’ve seen it happen two or three times at air days, it’s a pretty common pilot’s error.
When he got to the bottom of the loop he had run out of space and he was ‘mushing in’, in other words the nose of the aircraft was pointing up but it was still falling because he had lost lift.
“It’s a flat stall and you will drop like a stone when that happens.”

Any better pilots than him out ther want to argue that?

Bradburger no I do not write for a newspaper and if I did I would probably be calling for Andy Hills head over the deaths caused by him or any others who serviced or maintained this aircraft. I am awaiting the report on this like others on this forum and hope it is soon and not a whitewash which I am sure the AAIB will not do.My thoughts and wishes are for the relatives of the dead only and hope they see justice for those they lost.
#73 I agree entirely with your post