Ben and others, I had the frustration of working just north of DX today, I could hear engines but wasn’t able to look out of the window, great sound, great temptation and incredibly frustrating….

Snapper,

Well, it will be a near run thing between that and those typhoons that are secretly being restored in Narfolk.

Dez, I’ll look up in the back issues of Fighter Log (you do subscribe to the Friends of TFC magazine don’t you) and let you know when it first arrived in the UK, unless someone beats me to it….

It appears just as well that TFC and the engineers have more determination, optimism and resolve than is being shown here otherwise they wouldn’t have got as far as they have with this project.

It seems there are those who get on and “do it” and those who winge about it. Every so often I get just a little fed up of meaningless threads about when will this or that fly and why don’t they do this or that.

Compare this thread to the fascinating insights into Duxfords history by people such as “LeHarve” or the positive attitude shown in the “How to make Old Warden Better” .

I guess when TFC finally get the Beaufighter airborne (as they will) half of you will be moaning that it shouldn’t be flown as it is so rare.

(As you may gather today wasn’t a good one at work!!)

Speaking personally, just make sure it happens each year without nit picking by those who don’t take the financial risk!

I am banned at home from saying “I remember when”, BUT if you remember airshows from a decade or more ago you can only be grateful for what Legends offers.

As has already been said Mr Grey and his team appreciate what WE want and strive to achieve that within the paremeters of safety and economic feasability. For that we should back what is achieved and I am sure is actually appreciated by all on this forum.

(bit of pyros would be good tho’ eh!)

……………and you guys wonder why it takes so long to restore an aircraft, it has taken you nearly a year to take 24(?) pictures…..

I think therefore a lot more respect for those who make it happen with aircraft!!!!

still nice to see that channel fours’ continuity announcer didn’t flinch from his duty and managed to talk over the last 30 seconds. Bet the director who created that atmosphere for the final sequence was well impressed.

Well deserved praise for the final episode

video available here:

http://www.flightstore.co.uk/a_fairey_rotodyne_story.pilot.supplies/use.id.5.item_id.1126.dept.202.dept_l2.206.dept_l3.0/

more info type a/c name in google and use the picture search facility……………………..

The point being as I s-p-e-l-l it out for you. It couuld have stayed in NZ, there is no reason apart from possibly a philanthropic one for it to be here this year. Why not appeciate the opportunity tto see the plane while it was here?

Possibly it was intended for more shows, possibly mechanical problems beyond the owners control prevented this.

Obviously owners of warbirds should consult this forum before deciding what to do with a) their aircraft and b) their money!!