All the stats on Airprox available on the CAA website….try this page http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?categoryid=423&pagetype=68&groupid=430 or type Airprox into the search facility.

With particular regard to NCL, the inbound routing from the south via POL is now entirely within controlled airspace, due to the establishment of airway P18 (POL-NEW), so the risk to NCL inbounds has been significantly reduced.

The problem is that many UK civil airports have no controlled airspace linking them to the airway system (MME, HUY, NWI, BRS for example). Traffic has to route through the open FIR (Class G airspace), which anyone, from microlight to B52 has a perfect right to be operating in. The best ATC can offer is a Radar Advisory Service, which although usually good, cannot offer total protection against high energy military traffic.

Airspace evolves continually….for example on May 12th EMA gains a whole new chunk of sky out to the east of Leicester which totally changes the arrival routings, but many UK airports still remain clear of controlled airspace.

Its wasn’t realy a crash was it?

The families and friends of the 55 who died probably wouldn’t appreciate the semantics of that statement.

…err, you mean like THIS! 😮

YES!….fantastic, thanks..was that taken at Finningley?

The Texan owned by ‘Texan Tomcat’ is the machine which featured in the beginning of the film where the young boy finds a shot down ‘Zero’ .

And here it is at Coventry, with others, in the late 80s

Now our friends in Germany can really see the mess that TUI have created. 1st they got rid of the Britannia livery, then the name. Now they are doing the same in their own back yard. Destroying brand recognition and 2 once proud airlines.

You may not like the branding, but it clearly works…from the FT recently…

The sun shines on Tui shares.

By Patrick Jenkins in Frankfurt.
Published: March 24 2005 02:00.

Shares in Tui, Europe’s biggest tourism group, were the best performers among German blue chips yesterday, thanks to forecast-beating results for the year to December.

Michael Frenzel, chief executive, said operating profits doubled to €489.5m ($640.7m). For 2005, profits from its core holidays business – accounting for nearly 60 per cent of the group total – should grow at a double-digit percentage rate, though shipping growth would be more modest.

Did you meen to say 100 million moondance or have they really lost a billion???

Think I got my zeros correct….they lost £910.9 million in the year to September 2003, and ‘only’ £190.3 million in the year to September 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4097105.stm
In that context, the paint scheme is not really that important!

To partially reply to myself (and totally wrong Forum), but I would still love to see a shot of the inflight fuel dump/ignition.