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Ren, your trip to GLA may be a waste of time – fecking freezing and foggy!

Stephen Grey flying TFC’s Hurricane at Old Warden (probably during its first display season, late 80s). After years of watching the BBMF’s conservative displays, to see the Hurricane superbly flown, in a fully aerobatic display, was a revelation.
Funny how things have changed, and the wisdom of such displays are being questioned.

If I knew the first thing about football, that would probably be funny.

WHO GIVES A TOSS?

Yes, irritating isn’t it?

Speaking of Shacklady, the Morgan/Shacklady book ‘Spitfire – The History’ has my vote as one of my biggest book disappointments. The book is a VERY thorough technical history, but almost totally ignores the most important side of the story ie the in-service, human part of the history.
As the great Jeffrey Quill remarked in his lukewarm introduction, “It would be possible to criticise the book on the grounds that sometimes it tends to get bogged down under its own weight of detail and perhaps misses some of the broader interpretations.”
Too right Jeffrey.

Originally posted by David Burke
Lancman – I was always under the impression that the Blenheim was doing a ‘touch and go’ manouver at Denham so the issue of landing deep on the runway wasn’t really a factor.

Just because you are doing a touch and go, doesn’t mean that runway length is irrelevant. 24 at Denham has a LDA of 670m, compared with 1353m at Duxford (and,to give a silly comparison, 3048m at Stansted). So, Denham is pretty short and accuracy would likely to have been important.

Which I am glad to report he did towards the end of an epic three hour, 38 song show in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on Friday night. Last night of the ‘North’ tour, and Elvis clearly didn’t want to go to bed!
http://www.elviscostello.info/setlists/031107.php