Furthermore, most of you seem to have forgotten 10 men, including my mate, died on that flight. Get some perspective chaps.

So what is ‘the smell’ caused by, cos my little Caterham 7 car smells just like an old aircraft! Is it the peculiar combination of leather, electrics, oils & fuels?

Javelin

One of the volunteers said Tony Agar intends getting the Mossie taxiable

I am interested in digi photography, although I still have a 35mm SLR. I have one huge concern with digi pics that no-one seems to be able to answer.

Apparently a Kodachrome slide will last >100 years in cool conditions with no degradation. If you burn a CD with all your pictures, archive it & then find it in years to come, who is to say whether the technology will know what a CD or particular formatting is?

Witness the demise of floppy disks – i had some very old scanned images on a couple of floppies. Now I cant read them. it not the end of the world as they were just an experiment, but the principal applies.

With digi pics, are you meant to re-archive them everytime a new storage medium arrives? Floppy to CD to DVD…..in order to make them future compatible?

Call me a luddite, but there is a lot to be said for a physical image you can hold in your hand, put in cupboard & still know you will be able to see them in years to come. In our family, we have an old box of photos of relatives that goes back to 1900 or something that has been passed down the generations. Somehow I can see that happening with a CD.

Digi has its place, I am just not convinced its best for most people.

ATI 1992 at Boscombe Down was the only time I have seen one