Carly Simon’s You’re so Vain…has a pop star flying,
“…you flew your Learjet to Nova Scotia to see a total eclipse of the sun..”

Allegedly, not a pop star, but Warren Beatty…

Jetstream – Grover Washington
Skyliner – Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra
Flying Sorcery – Al Stewart

😀

…is that Catweazle getting an earful?…..

im bored

Ah!…….this must be another Spitfire thread then……….:rolleyes:

Some of you may have seen this but it is quite interesting footage
http://www.creativefission.com/Frame_MOV_Carrier320x240.html

Richard

A dead calm sea, you’ll notice. In the ‘real’ world,with the deck rising and falling 30 feet or so, arrival would have been infinitely more interesting. Presumably the idea behind the trials was possible emergency recovery during a mission?

Have just got round to uploading this but its well worth it I hope you’ll think. This is footage I shot at Duxford Flying Legends 2008 of the mass formation (balbo) of some of the finest warbirds in the world.

http://www.airshowbuzz.com/videos/view.php?v=0cb30713

Enjoy!

Every year I swear that I’m not going to Legends because it getting samey. Every year I go anyway, primarily to see the Balbo, having seen every one since the start back in the early 90’s. One of the impressive sights in the airshow milieu. Thanks for that, Fresh, were you using the video function on a ‘stills’ digital or do you have a digital video camera?

I have just learned that my friend Flight Lieutenant Doug Turner DFC has sadly passed away after a short illness.

Doug flew the Mosquito variant with the 6-pounder gun with 618 Squadron, and sank a U-boat with it in March 1944 – the first person to do so. His story is in the long out-of-print book “Most Secret Squadron” which was written by his navigator Des Curtis.

RIP Doug.

Farewell, Sir, I didn’t know you but your generation, and the generation before that fought in the ‘Great War’, were simply the best that this nation has produced.

Not too sure how small they make them, or how much they cost, but we had one of these where I served my apprenticeship – it was used as a temporary storage area…. it’s still sat in the corner of the site, 30 years later!

http://www.rubb.co.uk/products.html

Dean.

You beat me to it, Dean. I’ve also used Rubb Buildings in a warehousing application and they are very durable and weather resistant, and you shouldn’t have any trouble selling on when you’ve finished. I believe they can also be leased – although this could turn out to be an expensive option it would enable you to aquire the most suitable size for different stages of the project.