Why sell it? What a fool! I might go down there and offer a £1. You nver know.

If it was in my hands, I would lobby the council to allow several airshows a year, and being restored to pristine condition would entice some of the best pilots and their crafts!

Bump! The show is this week, hope some of you can make it! Promise you will enjoy it!

p.s. I’m trying to get her into ‘planes’ as she calls them, proving difficult, though she loves ‘Sally B’ every time she sees her, and seems to enjoy it as if it’s the first time every time. Lucky girl.

Looking Away by danjama, on Flickr

That’s pretty much what I had in mind 🙂

cheers guys might take a drive to greenwich then or get the tube if that will take me closer.

Very atmospheric spitfire shots. Wonderful.

And the Mossie is jaw dropping.

While I agree with the sentiment Moggy, I would be interested to see exactly how much of the “11 Billion” has actually gone back into UK economy, and how much has gone elsewhere such that UK plc /HMRC see no benefit from it whatsoever….;)

No doubt the IOC and all it’s hangers-on needs to be funded, and I doubt much of that outlay ends up benefitting UK. 🙁

I would be interested to know exactly how much of the final total (whatever that may turn out to be) has been funded by UK government (both directly and, indirectly, via various govt funded “bodies” and grants).

I also wonder what will happen to all the jobs “created” out of the games once they are over – I guess some construction jobs will remain for a while as the top tier of the main stadium is dismantled, and a few groundsmen/security heads until new owners take over the “legacy”, but I fear the vast majority employed up to and during the games will soon find themselves looking for work (and some may well return overseas from whence they came)? Will we see a hike in the UK unemployment figure this autumn? 🙁

Hopefully much of the foreign labour will ****** off.