Watton is in Norfolk, It is the “Village” location, Airfield shots are two seperate locations. Cunning eh. Now work out the airfields.., hangar types and layout will help.

It think the general feeling is that we’d all rather have fewer hours of broadcasting showing new & higher quality content than more hours with the same old stuff

Anyone recall Flying Machines Monthly, VHS, 70 minutes, Issue 1 1995 (which I have) fantastic content. Can’t recall the director but it was great stuff.

Anyway the point is 70 minutes for a month and god knows how much work to create it – at the end of the day someone has to earn a living out of the project. How would you maintain that level of material and interest with a keep fresh factor over time?

Better to have a monthly streamed download on subscription maybe?

Might just slip him into the next edition of a certain Collections support publication…..if the face is right and the body is wi……

Well

We went, jaded 40 something and enthusiastic 8 year old.

Didn’t know what to expect but both impressed in our own ways.

Last time I saw a Lightning I was eight and it was at Debden so work that one out!

Haven’t got a clue about the workings at B/thorpe however these were our thoughts:

Something happening from when we arrived until when we left.

Helpful, friendly patient volounteers.

You could touch, feel, smell the aircraft.

Enthusiasm and informality. As one eight year old put it (and this was after a 21/2 hour drive there (and another back) – “the fourth best day out I have had”

He liked the noise, the cockpits the Guppy thingy.

I liked the fact that it was different.

Well done to those involved.

One critiscism, the bacon rolls ran out before we got to the front of the que.

I think that the problem with the stickies is that a quick flick into the forum does not indicate new postings because the stickies are all you see. This is especially the case if you are using a widescreen laptop.

I accept the reasoning behind the stickies however the logic is flawed when they are perceived by the customer as an irritant. They also seem to have an extremely long shelf life.

Maybe a single sticky thread to which the posts, which are at present individual threads in effect, are added would be better then we could read/ignore them at our peril. This is a solution used elsewher eon the net.

Might just point out that this is a suitable epitaph for this thread as well:

“Proud to be English.
Enjoy life, its the only one you’ve got.”

Snapper wrote:

“The Claremont pier is closed as always, but it is up for sale so perhaps in a few years it may be a possible. South pier (the concrete one where i go prawning and catch lobsters) is usually closed as they stick fireworks on in the evening.”

Thought that was crabs you caught?

I’ll get me coat and me slippers.