It makes sense to do a short haul first, BA has to get the plane in service and making money, this will be a good shake down flight, I wonder how many passengers will be on board. Not many I guess which will proberbly be a good thing.

BA must be keen to get it on long haul, but nice to see they are doing ‘test’ flights with passengers before they commit to long haul. Get the first long haul wrong and that would be a PR disaster.

Someone beat you to it;)

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?125673-B17-gains-a-new-little-friend

aki1977, I hope you have found this thread some help. For Gottfried to die at such a young age must have been devistating for your family, my heart goes out to you all, he was only a few years older than me when he died.
And I hope my questions and comments hasn’t intruded into your privacy too much.

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another article

This newspaper article gave his name, I have tried to translate but not very well. No, I didn’t know Gottfried I was just trying to translate the article.

My German isn’t that good but the jist is,

The wreckage of the Mustang in which OHB and 16 year old Gottfried Kirchmayer died, the photo is of Gottfried, of course. I must say he was a handsome young man.

RIP both.

Amazing that the death toll wasn’t even higher.

Compared to the trainer T1s won’t the RA have lower hours on the airframe, so not needing replacing?

Fred Panton’s thanksgiving and celebration of his life is on Saturday 13th July at the Centre at 2.30pm.

It should be a celebration and a thanks giving to for the work Fred did. Fingers crossed it’s not a glum do.

Rest in peace Fred.

I do hope Harold gets to see Just Jane fly.