I spoke to a volunteer at Brooklands last year and asked about the grass strip. He said that there was a gentlemans agreement between Brooklands and Mercedes about the strip but, once the Mercedes HQ was completed, they went back on their word and it was never written into a contract. There was then some unkind remarks about Germans in general! No idea if this is true so don’t shoot the messenger.

any Harrier experts want to put a figure on the hourly running costs for that aircraft including depreciation?
yet another dreadful example of how governments waste our cash, my car is older than that!

wow, had no idea of that lovely little collection. Must be a little tempting to sell the P-39 to a rich American collector, it looks so original, more pics please

Great stuff, can’t wait.

Check out the rainbow at 1:38!

I agree with Deanos recipe but I also add a pinch of baking powder for extra lightness. Also, Hot Chocolate is mostly sugar so this makes the cake sweeter. For a darker flavour, use Cocoa powder instead.

I also go for the all in one method and, using a food processor, this seems to work fine.

Little in life is as rewarding as eating home baked chocolate cake:)

Well the Beeb is skint, so the first question they will ask themselves when they see your leter, is how much will it cost.

I am not a train fan but the recent season on trains has been pretty good and the demographics are pretty similar (also the new James May series is in the same vein)

With the trains, they seem to have mixed mostly older documentaries with a couple of newly comissioned programmes (I think the one on Beeching with the guy from Have I Got News For You) was new.

There are loads of great aviation docs out there but Beeb would have to pay for the rights (B25 Mitchells do fly.. etc being top of my list) . They must have loads of stuff in their old archives (Farnborough being an obvious source). James May (having a PPL) seems to be one of the few decent presenters out there who actually knows what he is taking about and does not dumb down too much, perhaps we should get him on the forum and then ask the Beeb?
PS 100 years of powered flight in the UK would have been a great concept for a BBc4 season, I think they missed a trick there

Based on what I’ve read in the “Falklands..What if…” thread, a good, intelligent film could be made showing both sides.

Heroic military members thrown into a war no one really expected or wanted…and were ill-prepared for.

“An Ungentlemanly Act” did it’s best to show both sides of the war (at least the first stage of it) on a very limited budget compared to the USA blockbusters. I would very much appreciate the opinion of any Argentinian forum members on this movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_2_NLpw7B4

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134178/

There is obviously genuine drama and heroism on both sides within this conflict and much of it untold to the mases. But, do you really want Hollywood to get hold of this? I think more decent books are the way forward although the Martin Middlebrook pair would take some beating.