Probably a good choice as they left the gun on and its taken a few scalps in its time, just ask my wife!

No-one else commenting on the ipod earphones? They seem to be permanatley attached to all the apprentices at our place

To be honest some people spend all day looking around the hangars, swiss garden and the falconry centre then when the day punters leave and when the gates are opened for the proms, (not sure what time but the time should be on your tickets) they get their tables, tablecloths and candle sticks out and set up for the rest of the evening. If I remember correctly most peole aim to get there for about half five to half six but it’s never cramped so no need for mad rushing.

Steve.

After watching the rather startling performance of the PO-2 for the first time last week I can understand why the engineers were having a wry laugh when they mentioned the other roles of the PO-2 not just glider towing but also ambulance and many others, would not like to see it pull anything faster than the dagling can’t imagine much else getting airborne so slowly.

The cooling system on the SE5 is fine as it is, it’s been venting coolant once it gets hot for as long as I remember (at least 15 years) and I think this is down to only having a small header tank on the radiator, and it has a small overflow tank in the leading edge of the centre section if I can remember right.
The SE is the only original one flying and has just had a rebuild to make it as original as possible so I don’t think modifying the system is on the cards, but as it only runs it’s engine for about 30 mins at a time I imagine it will stay like this, in truth I would expect if SE’s were used exclusively at low altitudes during the war these problems would have been encountered as well.
No offence taken or meant with my explanation I don’t claim to be an expert on the aircraft but I’m just trying to explain what I understand about this aircraft.

I wasn’t asking in a sarky way as we have been letting the photographers take pictures from other parts of the airfield at OW so I wondered if Duxford were following suit? While you were working in your field did you have many free loading people parking their cars and blocking up the way in to the fields like we get?

And like I said earlier good pictures especially the Hurri’s it seems you’re the only one to catch our hurri in the formation.

I know exactly what you mean with punters not respecting the exhibits, we always have this problem at OW while putting aircraft away and no matter where you go with MVs someone always wants to climb on them. We stopped at South mimms services last year on the way to Beltring went in for a bite to eat and to use the facilities, came out to find a couple of young kids literally hanging off My WC54 trying to pull bits off with their parents grinning and taking pictures. The parents were very upset when I asked them which was their car and promptly sat on the bonnet, and even then they couldn’t understand what I was getting at. The pictures of your display look fantastic would love to come up and look sometime, when is the next open day?

Blimey Rob I know you like to get the perfect picture but taking the wings off the Lizzie just to get a shot of the cockpit is a bit too far. :rolleyes: