That Dornier video is somehow reassuring. I like to know that any aircraft I might fly in is capable of flying well outside it’s normal performance envelope. Displaying the strength and stability of a normal passenger aircraft in this way should give even the most nervous passenger peace of mind.

Of course, if it had all gone “**** up” I’m sure I wouldn’t feel so assured.

When I’m next asked if I don’t mind flying to, say, Amsterdam in order to catch a connecting flight I shall ask “is it a DO228?” and if not I’ll be asking why.

She might not now go tomorrow for No2 as I understand they have lost the fire cover. Todays came up from Heathrow as the on site tender broke down!

If it would make a difference, I can drive up from Plymouth with a bucket of water in the boot??

Trying to get those ******s who swore they’d give me a million dollars if it flew again is proving to be problematic, though. Suddenly, I can’t find a single one, and some have even had the audacity to go and die on me 😮

It’s just spite – I’m now an unrequited multi-millionaire! 🙁 😡

😀 😀 😀

a secret agent? 😀

Ahh, that would be telling.

We mustn’t ignore the potential XH558 holds for cold war documentaries and, indeed, films.

A film of the excellent book, Vulcan 607 by Rowland White, might even be possible. Especially if she’s given the same sort of status and financial rewards of a big name actor.

I can see her name in lights over the entrance of my local multiplex even now; “Vulcan 607 STARRING XH558”.

There could be other films too; based on the Cold war, for instance.

😀 😀 She could become as famous and popular as James Bond, under the right agent!!!

like the other movie that told the world how they captured the ‘Enigma’ and helped us British out because we couldn’t do anything right!

A tiny, but significant point. The Americans did, in fact, capture an (although not the first) Enigma machine themselves.

Goodness me “Old Girl”????

Don’t let her hear you say that!!

Wish I had £55, though 🙁

Ha’penny Green, aye? Haven’t been there since I was younger than a sprog!

Duxford maybe.

That’ll give Germaine Greer something to write about!!! (Hopefully!)

Great.

There’s something crazy about the angle on that B25 – I can’t put my finger on it, though – it clearly ISN’T inverted – because we can see the bottom – but it’s at a very strange angle – slightly behind or on the crowd line, turning to port, tightening the turn by using some elevator?? I generally don’t like underside shots, but this is one I do like – mostly because I don’t “get it”, if you see what I mean.