Money well spent – as was the Baldock By-Pass and it’s Weston Hills Tunnel ( I can get to Duxford 15 minutes quicker than previously).

Give it a year and nobody will complain about the cost.

As a slight deviation from the arguments, I wonder if Old Warden will fly their Martlet (Grumman) in formation with their Martlet (Southern) ?

If I can sell my Bonneville SSEi at the Rally Of The Giants in Knebworth Park that morning, I’ll be along.

Beech 18 over Panshanger heading NE at 13.00hrs

Some nice shots and some unusual angles there, AW, thanks for posting. In the shots on your Flickr page, is the lass cutting the ‘birthday cake’ by any chance Annie ?

Here on the northern edge of the London TMA, the week-end summer sky is normally throbbing with light aeroplanes, but today, one Chipmunk plodding back from Panshanger, and two red kites going backwards !

Veering slightly off-topic, Propstrike, but taking the cue from your post – I was out walking the dog over near Panshanger airfield last week when I noticed what I took to be a Red Kite soaring aloft in the wind over the strip, and doing a good job of travelling backwards. I wasn’t aware that there were any in the London area, thanks for confirming my sighting.(Now an expert twitcher is going to post and say it wasn’t a Red Kite, but a Bengalese fish-eating Parrot or something).