Oh dear, someone missed the wink and has now had a sense of humour failure! 🙁

Andy

Indeed, and whilst I have grudgingly accepted “East Midlands”, “Nottingham East Midlands” is still a problem. I still refer to Manchester as Ringway, and Birmingham as Elmdon. I’ve even been to Kirmington Airport once or twice! 😉

And what about Finningley… A few weeks ago, an instructor at the flying school I hire a/c from called Docaster/Sheffield/Scunthorpe/Robin Hood international jetport and used the callsign “Finningley Approach”… Mr Stuffy-ATCO said “We’re not called Finningley anymore” to which the instructor replied “Well why does the beacon on the airfield have the ident. F-N-L then?” 😉 Ah, the old names are the best! 🙂

Andy

LOL! Having been there on a number of occasions, I have to admit that seeing Fenland can be a challenge. In fact, on more than one occasion I’ve been caught re-identing, tapping the ADF, etc, etc just to convince myself that it still was indeed still correct in pointing towards a location where there appeared to be no airfield whatsoever! 🙂

Andy

PS: Always thought it was a bit evil for the local flying school to send students on a land-away (admittedly usually dual) to Fenland, which they do quite often in the summer.

think you’ll have to suffer with the cars! car park is MOD property & is used by various people (including myself) for work!

Ah, and here I was thinking Cosford was an aviation museum, presumably designed to allow the public to look at and, perrish the thought, photograph the historic aircraft contained therein! :confused: Now I discover that all along its primary purpose has been to act as a car park for the MOD, with its role as a museum presumably consigned to a somewhat lower priority! 😮 It must be a terrible imposition for the MOD to have that damned great big Valiant dumped in their parking area! 😉 :diablo:

Andy

The Valiant last Tuesday 4th April,the last day before the fence around the 707 made this side more challenging to photograph:

Andy

American 727-223 N6835 Chicago O’Hare to Seattle Tacoma, 23rd July 1993. Relatively clear day over the great plains (or at least it was based on the view I had from the right hand side) albeit with some bumps that were relatively benign but enough to stop cabin service. I was sat in the one from back row. All of a sudden, a massive bang/crack, a blue-uish flash from (as best I could see) near the front of the airplane and travelled extremely rapidly to the back where it disappeared. There was then just a minor burning smell left. Captain came on and said “we’ve been struck by lightning, no need to worry, we’re continuing to Seattle, blah, blah…” Event over.

Andy

Strange that he taxied out of the hangar because no one was around, and yet he took his wife, son and a friend with him as witnesses and he spoke to the maintenance manager. I can move a PA-28 on my own if push comes to shove (which it does in such cases!), so how four or even five people couldn’t…

Anyway, sounds like he deserved it IF the report is correct – starting up and taxi-ing out of a maintenance hangar, no external pre-flight checks, not checking the CofA was valid… What a moron – flying for 44 years and not learned a thing.

It seems to me from reading the ‘blurb’ that the idea of this show is that the flying display features types that will be included in the AirSpace ‘shed’ once it is finished, not the actual airframes that are going in it.

In that case, I shall look forward to them fly a TSR-2, a Comet 4, a Canuck, etc., just not necessarily those ones going into the shed! :diablo:

Andy