What mileage do you get with a hybrid?
I get 40 on the motorway with a 2.0 Petrol as a comparison.
Might be tempted with a Hybrid if it’s double that. If not, doesn’t seem to be much point especially now the con charge has been abolished for them.

What are the travel, parking arrangements? Is it park on field?
Kenley is a little restricted, position and road wise. Just wondering how it’s going to be managed.

I’m with the AA, I also have breakdown insurance with them, if my car breaks down it is covered up to £500 and three claims a year

HOWEVER

Driving to work my TT engine management light came on (yellow one) so I stopped and called them out…. As the manual says it has a fault and has gone into limp mode, take it to Audi… the AA do NOT recognise that as a breakdown so ended up forking out a couple of hundred quid to get the O2 sensor replaced.

Breakdown companies are not there to repair your car, just get you going. Normally they just tow you to a garage.

I use Tesco premium breakdown cover for £89 per year.
Only called them out once. They either call Green Flag or a local garage. Service seemed good enough.

Anyone who stays with an insurance company and doesn’t shop around is loosing money and doesn’t understand how the industry works. Even if you don’t move shop around and see who’s charging what. The industry is based on `churn` i.e geared up to winning people who shop around. The industry doesn’t care about existing customers. They only make money on winning new business. Why should they. If you are too lazy then you get charged the maximum.

I was with the AA for 4 or 5 years. One year they increased my payments from £80 to £150. So I cancelled. When I rang them they offered me £85 to renew. Needless to say I’ve never used the AA since.

To be honest apart from the AA, RAC and Greenflag most are just brokers. They use local garages or Green Flag.

One year I cancelled Tesco. After shopping around I realised they were still the cheapest and rejoined. Not only did I get the same deal I got a £10 new customer voucher.

I also changed my contents and buildings saving £10pcm and my Pet Insurance saving about £5. I saved about £20 on my annual car insurance. The only thing I’ve never changed is my electric and gas. Just can’t seem to get a better deal.

If you use a credit card to withdraw money abroad, you will get stung, just as you would if you did so at home.

But, using a debit card doesn’t seem to cost that much. I quite like being able to put my UK debit card into a cash machine abroad (I once did so in a Wells Fargo machine in San Francisco). It is convenient and incurs a small fee, which I think is more than reasonable.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll try my debit card.

Now we have cleared this one up can someone explain LSD and the `bob`?

As others have already said – An amazing thread, with some wonderful photos.

I feel a scale model of Fair Fighters Revenge is imminent; I happen to have a ‘spare’ Airfix Lancaster in the stash… 😉

From a modelling perspective I have a question.
If you look at the photo’s of the lanc, particularly the engine exhaust stains, it looks as if the exhaust is escaping the shroud? I would have expected the exhaust to go out the back of the shroud, not downward?
Something interesting to model.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22021832

I hope we don’t get into a `I’m not backing down, you back down` scenario. It could escalate.