Tristar any time.
Here the engines are just starting up ready fro the trip back toi the UK

He also got to marshall in some of the big stuff (I bid in a charity auction for a day out with the Aircraft Handling Section for Wireless for the Blind charity…and I just had to go along as well you understand.

This is him getting a Nimrod to put it’s brakes on, on the parking spot assigned for it for the night.

here’s one of my son getting into the front of the Red Arrows’s boss’s plane at RAF Akrotiri a few months back. There is a long story and around 100+ piccies I took that day so I wont go into them on this thread.

By the way, the ‘Reds’ are out here practicing again. Screws up my visits on work time going to Akrotiri, cos I always end up watching an airshow, and boy….do they go low !!!

“Bladdy typical innit…..we paint the yellow lines where we’re told and they build the hanger 2 feet to the right ….I ask you !

“Now thats what I call a cat flap !”

So thats why my mate didn’t come back !!!

If anyone knows where he is, tell him his mum says his teas ready so he’ll have to come back five minutes early or it’ll be cold !

Seriously folks, His real name is Richard Cranium…only a Richard Cranium would come back in time to fleece the current world without taking the time to find out if he got caught doing it !!!

I would hope that the law of the current country would be the law used !…otherwise that makes the pilots, technically highjackers !!!! I mean theyve got the gun with all the passengers in the back forced to go where the pilots goes (Okay, most times they all happen to want to go to the same destination) but I reckon it wont be long before some guy decides to raise a law suit cos of a ‘alternative’ landing at a destination he didnt want to go to (I can see this happening more in the States than here)

Then I suppose next, it’ll be the Right of citizens to bear arms at all times, especially if the driver’s got one up front !!!

The other alternative is to promise to put the guns in a safe when entering a particular airspace…which is then when the baddies will have a go….

Seal off the cockpit completely from the passenger compartment, provide the crew with their own access door, only available whilst on the ground, put a guard on the door (and probably a second guard to guard the first,,,just in case) and then you will see a reduction in air side highjackings

Its bad enough seeing armed guards at the airports let alone knowing full well that the guy in front is also packing a peice !

Are any of our lady pilots going to be trained in the subtle art of pulling triggers ?

Surely the next thing to happen is that future designs of planes will have the cockpit totally sealed off from the sardines in the back with a solid pressure bulkhead and their own access door in fuselage side only accessible from the ground stairs. That would stop the ‘fly me to wherever’ brigade getting their hands on the controls. If they are gonna blow it up though, doesnt really matter where the pilots sit or if they are armed

G’day mate

Welcome back.

My father in law is just out of hospital after a double bypass operation (following a few minor heart attacks) , likewise, he’s very weak at the moment but with plenty of rest they should recover.