The question is, will he (not necessarily who you think) be flying there?

Sorry to see you go James 🙁 I’m sure we’ll treat you with the same discourtesy as we treat everybody else when you come back 🙂

I’ll be at Duxford in spirit tomorrow, but in person I shall be darn sarf I’m afraid.

Take care — all the best,

M

It’s been a great year for me. I’ve been to more airshows than ever (though I’ll only have managed Legends this year at Duxford, I can’t make the last one next weekend 🙁 ) and I’ve taken more photos at each than I’ve usually managed in an entire year. Some have even been half-decent.

I’ve met loads of people from the form, taken some of them flying and they’re still talking to me. Blimey!

I’m not sure I could pick a highlight, I’ve enjoyed it all. The day of the Little Gransden airshow saw me flying right over the top of Luton Airport (with a clearance, you’ll be pleased to know!!) which was pretty cool … and the Mustangs at Breighton setting off car alarms sticks in my mind too. Okay, I did manage two highlights!

Was on my way down to Southend unfortunately. Mike, did J4021 head out east Suffolk way during that flight?

It was still there last time I saw the plane! It’s never happened when I’ve been flying solo, and the passenger’s the one who sits closest to the door. Maybe Nick was trying to say something about my flying? 😉

Thanks for inviting me along Merlin … it was a nice change from seeing the things flying! My thanks also to Peter and everybody at HFL.

I hope I’m as ‘with-it’ as Bert is when I’m that old. Given a power supply and half a chance he’d have had that gun camera running!

Count me in!

I don’t use either. I looked at the Pooleys and the Bottlang, and went for the Bottlang, the main reason was that I preferred the mapping in the Bottlang. I thought about getting a Pooleys as well a little while back, but decided it wasn’t worth it.

It’s a very personal thing really. Look at each of them and decide which one you like the most. I find being able to remove individual plates from the binder and slot them into my kneeboard very useful, this is not so easy on a wire-bound guide. I don’t think I’d get on at all well with a perfect-bound guide.