If you are going to do it, do it large…….

If you feel the same about it as I do, the government consultation on HS2 closes on 29th July. This is the ONLY opportunity you will have to object to the proposal.

Click this link: http://snag-against-hs2.org/have-your-say/index.asp. You then just choose and click one answer, or formulate your own, for each of the 7 questions, then click send.

The simple question has to be asked.

Is it worth spending £35 billion minimum, or £1500 for every man woman and child in the UK, to get the small proportion able to afford expensive tickets, to Birmingham 12 minutes faster?

Whatever your thoughts on the bulldozing of houses, and through Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, one has to ask whether we really need to spend so much money while the country is skint?

Blooming brilliant news Booker……

All we have to do is fight off the developers threatening the other airfields around the UK.

Bembridge
Sandown
Plymouth
Enstone
Bicester
Weston on the Green
Dunsfold
Leicester
Rougham
Elmsett………. to name but a few

To confirm the above, apparently the P-51 was “Big Beautiful Doll”. Collision with French Skyraider which landed safely. P-51 pilot reported (thankfully) OK.

Michael Carlsson’s Fokker DR-1 replica was apparently damaged on landing earlier, after hitting propwash from an aircraft being run-up ‘on the line’. A bad day, but it could have been a lot worse.

Black-ened….

Yes, both occupants escaped unhurt, even the aeroplane, G-ACDA, is now flying again!

(Pic from deHMC archive/Haynes Manual of the Tiger Moth)

The poor old Super Ace doesn’t seem to be getting a look in here now. C’est triste!

I once heard the poor Super Ace described as “the result of an unfortunate liaison between an Auster and a B-24”

Cruel, but……. :diablo:

Was ‘KVF the aeroplane that shed its propeller on a delivery flight to a new owner a few years ago?

Superb Stuart. Great to see ‘WMN looking so good.