you know what you’ve got to do then bigvern, indeed all of us if we want to see her fly, and that’s lobby the airshow organisers to bin the decidely boring extra 300’s and their kind and cough up the cash for foxy lady. or if there are any rich benefactors in our midst, come on guys give De Hav’s the money to pay the fuel or else the only thing you’ll see or foxy lady is an air test and then her gathering dust in De Hav’s hanger for the rest of the year or perhaps the rest of her days

as yet no bookings what so ever for foxy lady XN923, even with sponsership, airshow organisers aren’t willing to cough up the cash for her to appear. Even Red Bull haven’t confirmed they want her at any of their airshows in europe, reason: those avon 208’s burn 5 tons of fuel an hour and that’s alot of money to fork out jus getting her there.

XR537/XR954

ok everyone, first off stringbag. Yep I’m affraid that does mean G-TIMM will almost certainly have to be repainted or atleast her ‘sparrows’ unifrom altered in such a way as to make it nonrepresentative of an origional red. I know not the fine detail of it all but the R.A.F. have been pretty specific on it as far as I can gather and XR537 will definitly been the only one allowed (in th U.K. atleast, abroad I have no idea), as all aircraft wishing to appear in military markings have to be run by the service in which markings she will appear. Firebird, yes that’d be pretty cool, but again R.A.F. decision as to whether they’ll allow it (on going theme isn’t it, why do the beauracrats have to spoil everyone’s fun). Manston, not a hope in hells chance of getting XR954 back in the air, i’ve seen inside her, she’s been totally gutted, the main fuselage structure is exfoliating terribly and the main spar has more cracks than labours election manifesto. Once she has served her purpose the plan is to put her on static exhibition in the musem, if there is enough left of her at the end of course.