chiken hawk is a great book about being a helicopter pilot in the viet nam war, read it several times now, and enjoy it every time.

fighter pilot is also a great book about the first skirmishes of the war in france.

i seem to recall a very battered looking V1 at the museum in pourville near dieppe, and it looked rusty all over, the whole thing being pretty much a uniform rusty colour.

The conditions of a Permit to Fly. “The aircraft shall not be flown over any assembly of persons or any congested area of a city, town or settlement, except to the extent necessary in order to take off and land …..”

I think the MSA falls into the congested category. We can take off and land but no display flying!

This is also backed up by a statement from our County Coucillors. “Because the MSA would be officially classified as a “congested area” it would become almost impossible to run air shows.”

yes but the original tabloid style thread title says ‘End of flying’ at Duxford (don’t panic mr mainwaring), not end of displays.

i can still remember the exicement of thursday mornings, waiting for the paper boy to bring my comic, and being totally gutted if he was a bit late, and i had to go to school!
i started off with Valiant comic (i think, well it was something beginning with ‘v’), which was pretty soon amalgamated with Battle comic, then a few years later battle merged with Action, and went by the title of Battle Action for a while.
i’ve still got them all up my parents loft, and i think next time i’m home i’ll have to dig them out and get a nostalgia hit with ‘The Sarge’ , or ‘Spinball Wars’ , Panzer G-man, or jonny red…….ah yes, those were the days!

i love the way you’re all getting upset!….i can’t see anything on there saying it will alter anything to do with the airfield at duxford. talk about 2 +2 = 5 and jumping to conclusions!

TWCU would also have had quite a large fleet by then, i know later on they had an average of 22 aircraft on stength.

it was scrapped at cambridge a couple of years ago, owners couldn’t afford to pay the bill, and after sitting round for quite a while it was eventually scrapped.

have to disagree with you there roobarb, i remember when the lightning came in for battle damage use etc, and a friend of mine went down and got the top of the control column, he wanted to get the face screen handle off the seat as well, but we talked him out of it as nobody knew at the time if the seat had been dis-armed, and it would have been an expensive way of finding out!