The rest of my post was about aviation, i was only using that quote in context to illustrate the point of the topic.
My apologies.

£3500? It’s pretty cool, but it doesn’t appear to warrant that sort of price, i mean it’s only half an Airbus 😀
As for 8 months, if he is married, then i feel sorry for his partner 🙂

Absolutely ridiculous. A typical example of PC nonsense trying to overthrow a useful and necessary use
When you consider this comes from the same world as the ban of “Ba Ba Black sheep” on the grounds of being racist, it’s not really suprising.
I would of thought the safety of passengers would be a immovable barrier.
I can’t imagine hearing the news of a Lockerbie-esque incident on the news, and thinking “Well, X amount of children died on that, but, at least their innocence was not harmed at all”.
With the age we are in now, safety is not something that can be comprimised. Period.

Truly sad the the Vark’s days are now literally numbered.
I’m speaking on a purely selfish basis here, but throwing on the scrapheap and probably ending up on a baked bean tin somewhere is just cruel, to a machine that, as you said, has faithfully served its country.
The saddest thing though, with the Phantom’s of the several airforces either being or on the verge of being replaced by the new breed, is that the ‘muscle plane’ era is disappearing – All the low bypass giants are starting to thin out.
Still, I’ll remain optimistic that at least one will keep flying, (Preferebly in the UK :D) and i also suspect Thunder City would be interested in one of these fantastic aircraft too, but guaging by the fact no Tomcats have flown since its (majority) retirement, it doesn’t look promising.

Put the girl to rest before she worsens, its cruel.

You are right Jon – It just angers me that such a wondrous machine is going to go to the chop, I just wish it would happen sooner, its been on death row for a long time and its almost painful seeing her sit there, waiting for the inevitable JCB’s to arrive.

Had the pleasure of meeting Bob many years back – Was either Manston or Biggin, i was only about 9 or 10 at the time. Not often you meet someone who did what he did, but would yet be so humble, and what a true gentlemen as well.
But what I do recall him saying a statement, that just shows what a modest person he was, and is is something will stay with me forever – “I do not appreciate it when people assume that because i was a Spitfire ace, that i was a hero – The brave young fellows that i took off with, and never got to finish the bars of chocolate we was sharing, they were the real heroes”
Such a sad thing to think in 10-15 years time, there is probably going to be none of these incredible people about to tell us all the story of what they saw, and what they fought for. The “Few” are certainly (and unfortunately) living up to their namesake now.
Let their sacrifices never be forgotten.
Thank you for inspiring me Bob, and “Tally-ho”

Just saw on the news that Bob Doe was buried today in Suffolk. I saw a Spit this morning flying low at 10:10 over Margate as i mentioned previously – does anybody know what Spitfire it was that done a flypast at his burial?