I think thats to draw people’s attention more 😀

Touché 😀

I’ve flown on 727s with both DAN Air and Sabre (quite possibly the very same 727s 😀 ). They werefairly old when DAN had them and positive archaic when Sabre had them 6 years ago. Remember it havign a lot of things that were faulty that day and a somewhat death-defying approach onto the non-ILS end of SZG’s runway from which we just managed to leave from the last turning 😮 You can land a 747 on that runway!

Also flown on Fokker 27s, they were great fun, lovely sounds and big oval windows.

Most recently I have flown on a 1944 de Havilland Dragon Rapide. That was alos great fun and I have a video of it on the net somewhere (or I did :confused: ?!).

This is an aerial pic I took back in May:

I assume the apron area including the hangars and tower are under threat and that their removal would then allow two JCBs to build a housing estate on the rest of the land that isnt already covered in glasshouses?

Most of the perimeter track survives apart from the south/south west edge which has either been removed or absorbed into public highway. The majority of the main runway was broken up and removed for hardcore for the A27 extensions in the early 90s I believe and only the north half of the subsidiary runway and the east end of the main runway survive in amongst the glasshouses.

Sorry to ressurect this old thread, to avoid double posting, I’d like to draw your attention (those interested 😀 ) to this thread on the historic board:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=60898

I tend to regard it as a historic plane and so I tend to post mainly on that board but arguably it fits into both categories!

Does anyone know how often Google earth is updated?? tried looking at it last week but nothing at Dunsfold that i could see….pity is Top Gear is finished now untill the autumn which means no more views of glorious prop liners!!!

It isnt. The imagery (of the UK) at least varies in age from late 90s to last year or two depending on what commercial companies have donated to Google. Try local.live.com from M$, its higher res than GE and they have consistant high res coverage of the whole country, mostly provided by Getmapping plc but with some more recent additions. Another superb feature of local.live.com is 45 degree the bird’s eye views – images taken from helicopters over many built up or significant areas that are more up to date and give you the choice of what angle you view from.

For years Lockheed was proposing a twin…never got built though.

I was asking about that on another forum but no one seemed to know:

Got any more details on what happened to this?