“One only has to walk around in central London. I’m like the white spot on a domino.”

Oh dear.

could not agree with the last post more. What I find more disturbing is not Clarkson himself as idiots are spead pretty evenly throughout society. But the way the BBC (an organsation that I assist in funding) seeks to justify the homophobia that exists whin the programme.

‘We acknowledge some viewers do not appreciate the Top Gearteam’s sense of humour but their provocative comments are an integral part of the programme and are not intended to be taken seriously.’

They clearly would not say the same thing about racist comments and Carol Thatcher was shown the door very quickly. I sincerely hope that history will judge Top Gear in the same way that it has judged the Black and White Minstral Show.

I normally like the addition of Bernard Chabbert to the team but this year he was way over the top, he just went on and on and onand……. With no other member of the team willing to tell him to stop and let the Merlins do the talking. At one point, I reached for the pen knife in my pocket and was very tempted to cut the cable on the tannoy (what voltage do they have?)
eveyone should feel free to give feedback to the TFC team and hopefully, they can be more reserved next year,
otherwise, a great show:)
sorry, one other point on the tannoy, all they did for the whole morning was use the tannoy as an advertising tool (join this, buy that, go and donate to this, join this again, go and buy that again), just becomes very annoying

I think the issue may be that many spotters etc are so anal that they expect the name of the airshow to 100% accurately reflect the content. But if you want to market and promote a successful airshow called ” Piston Engine powered Warbirds and trainers build before 1950 (ish) with some guests at our discretion including replicas 2009″ be my guest
Mr Grey and his team bust there gut every year to bring us one of the finest airshows in the World, please, give the guy a break!

surprised nobody has come on to complain about the wrong engine being fitted, and I hope it’s got the right tail wheel.;)

“If I buy a specific serial and I research it’s history, I would be very disappointed to find out I bought something it isn’t.”

Yes, what a bummer. I would love to have problems like that. “Oh no, I have gone and bought another flyable Sea Fury and there is an issue with the serial number. I want my money back”

It’s very kind of you to be so considerate to those who, in future, may pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a warbird and find that it has some components that don’t match the original serial. But I think they are big boys (and girls) and can do the research for themselves. (before writing out the cheque)

Yak11 is spot on, lets all relax and enjoy the show. We don’t know how lucky we are

Why will nothing fly if we become ‘fussy’ about historical accuracy ? The likes of Peter Vacher and Teichman don’t seem to have any problem with turning out aircraft that are both perfectly airworthy Hurricanes and accurate in the detail. If nobody cares about historic detail why do people go to Flying Legends when any other air display would do? The fact that the aircraft has a Centaurus is great – the tailwheel issue would worry me as there is obviously the rear fuse of WG655 about somewhere!

There are many things in life that maybe worth worrying about but, for me, the authenticity of a tail wheel on a fifty year old aircraft is not on my list. There are many aircraft that have flown at Legends that are not 100% authentic, but, for me, that has zero effect on my enjoyment and I really think that most of the crowd share my view. And yes, there have been some wonderfully accurate restorations. But to imply that Mr Grey somehow has not met those standards benchmarked by others sounds a little churlish to me if you don’t mind me saying. Worry more about the weather, chill out and relax to the wonderful sound of a Centuraus closely followed by a tale wheel of some description.

PS I don’t really think that people attend Legends for the historic detail of the aircraft. Most of the crowd could not tell a Mark 1 Spit from a Mark 19, but they still have a great time 🙂

Don’t say anything bad about Ms Gibson, she helped me through my teenage years!