Yep I was there until about 12.30 – ostensibly to visit XH558, but also saw this:

Does a Stinson Reliant have the ‘nickname’ blackbird?

No – Robin? 😉

(Step forward, Alan Rickman!)

Sorry, for a moment I thought you said Rick Wakeman 😀

Closing? Anyway, I was sequested for a couple of weeks in, I think, 1974, to help catalogue the parts for new computer parts locationecording system (wow that long ago 🙁 ).

Fortunately, on my way there, I ate a chicken dinner in a local pub in High Wycombe, ended up with gastro somethingitus and spent a week in the medical centre instead!

Of absolutely no practical value to the thread – just spreading the word!

Just a word of warning fellas.

Advertising that you’re on AIM, MSN, ICQ etc could get you lots of requests from some very strange people, who trawl the net, looking for potential spamming opportunities. I removed my details from an EZBoard forum for just that reason.

Ask Snapper if he’s had any wierd requests recently 🙂

If any genuine forum users would like to be added to my MSN contacts list, then please PM me.

I remember seeing an interview on TV once about display pilot monitoring.

There was a programme shown on Discovery Wings last night (24th Apr ’04) covering accidents at airshows. Some of it was a bit too graphic for my tastes, but I stuck it out.

There is a monitoring group at (I think it was) Biggin Hill or Duxford. It wasn’t clear, at least not to me, whether this was a feature of all displays – but I got the impression it was.

The gentleman interviewed certain seemed very senior and experienced – yet enthusiastic about seeing the aircraft flown properly and in the right hands.