I found it impressive, but kept waiting for Harry Hill to pop with a witty remark when the rider went a over t.
Must admit to a tear or two.
I notice the Mossie had retracted the tailwheel. In my day the tailwheels were locked down because there was no indicator reds or greens as for the main wheels. My pilot told me this was because there was a tendency for the tailwheel to get hung up and it was not advisable to land with it retracted.
That is simple Andy. Such valuable objects so easily fell out of the old fashioned open cockpits these people persisted in flying in.
Blimey, only 7 stars, we had to learn about 30 and didn’t have pretty books like that. I remember fumbling about with 2 clunky cloth bound volumes. We needed a semi house trained killick to translate for us:D:D
As well as being ugly, I can remember them being referred to as “working girls” because they had no visible means of support.
I thought that tool was a Birmingham screwdriver.
Commiserations. At least you have a nice sunny day to hopefully dry them a little.
19 and flying a Meteor – no age to die though 🙁
Par for the course then. I was on a squadron at 19½ and had by then already carried coffins and fired shots over graves for comrades. The RAF were killing nearly one per day at that time, in accidents, mostly youngsters. Such news rarely made the media.
Let us face it the MPs are all “singing from the same hymn sheet” which is prepared for them by the civil, so called servants. They run the country and just feed the MPs and us like mushrooms, our government is the ultimate in spinelessness.
To hell with all this molly coddling ;);) when I went to school the silly ******s were fighting over our heads disturbing our valuable lessons, so I learnt nuffin. :D:D
The only thing our Dave knows is PR, and I don’t mean photo recce.
Guess the aircraft will have to be resprayed in typical “hairdresser”colours :rolleyes::D:D
These b spellcheckers drive me crackers, I always correct them.
But it is program if in the context of computers, but programme when referring to the animated wallpaper machine. Look there the damn thing has redlined programme, and redlined FFS