With a successful bid on an item, I’ve had the seller pull the item from auction because it wasn’t fetching enough. Hardly ethical. People who set a start price lower than what they are happy to expect are simply being foolish.

Ebay has been a tremendously useful tool for me. I’ve found so many parts I wouldn’t have dreamed I’d ever find thanks to Ebay. What saddens me though is that there are a growing number of people trying to make huge profits from the sale of old aircraft parts when I’m more concerned about getting missing parts back into the aircraft they came from. I’ve given heaps of stuff away for free over the years just to see it go back where it belongs. Enthusiast vs Profiteer I guess.

Roy.

I think you’re right… you can’t get away from it. As soon as you hear an engine overhead, you just have to look up.

Early last year, swmbo decided that we needed a weekend break and she booked us into a little cottage in bedgellert. Now while I love the area around bedgellert, I wasn’t too keen on this because I was busy playing with simulators, the jetstream and trying to stich two lumps of grumman yankee together to make one whole one.

Reluctantly though, I agreed to the trip and we set off for our long weekend break. We met up with the cottage owners to get the keys (they lived just the other side of a little waterfall from our rented cottage) and it turned out that the owner flies a sea king SAR from valley. swmbo’s eyes rolled as long conversations about helo’s began.

Being a yank, swmbo wanted to see a castle and so I took her up to caernarfon. She had a wander around the ruins, did a little shopping, and then I said I just wanted to pop around to caernarfon airport. What she didn’t know was that Bill Turnbull was waiting at the museum there for me and after a quick cuppa we spent the next hour or so wandering around Caernarfon museum’s sea hawk 🙂 swmbo was not impressed.

I just hope her next weekend jaunt is near somewhere like brooklands or duxford 😀

Roy.

Nothing, imho. Bidding early, as in a ‘real’ auction, just drives the price up, and no buyer wants that.

Given that the electronic auction has a finite life and a ‘real’ auction does not – it could be considered sneaky in that by bidding at the last second, you aren’t giving others a chance to bid more. Again, a buyer doesn’t want that !

Roy.

I thought it was interesting to read Mr. Jackson stating that the film was not going to be a 2006 remake of 1943 events “The world of 1943 is very much where this film is going to be set, not the political world of 2006” yet he is still undecided about what name to call the dog. What other reason is there for not using nigger apart from the political sensitivities of 2006?

A very good point. Time will tell.

Although he has a very hard act to follow, the film could be good – and true.

If nothing else, it should leave us with a few Lanc replica’s to drool over and might just inspire some new folks to join the aviation heritage movement.

Roy.

I have said it before, but I REALLY would like to see this 748 saved.

Well if you fund the dismantling, transport and re-assembly – we’ll take care of the rest for you.

The cost of moving these old ladies is a real problem.

Roy.

A superb web site Lee – a real credit to you.

Roy.

Yet another council looking to make a ‘quick buck’ and sod the greenbelt and our aviation heritage. It’s depressing, and against the might of the councils and wealhy developers it is hard to get our voice heard.

Sad, very very sad.

Roy.