If it’s coming into Felixstowe container port then Bentwaters isn’t a million miles away, where I can see from my office window, an aviation museum and a container storage facility. I have no links to either but you could see if either are willing to help.

The website says the 4th June practice jump will be in the UK. Are they parachuting back into Duxford or is that just a take off location for the aircraft?

Christopher Plummers’ car is an MGPA (according to this website http://classiccarmag.net/mg-ta-a-true-classic-british-sports-car/), not an L type, the L was a larger car. MG created three basic model shapes Midget, Magna, Magnette. The PA/PB and later the T-types fell into the midget category whereas the L1 was a Magna, four seater open tourer, although to confuse matters the PB was available as a four seater but has a narrower body – you might have to park them side by side to tell the difference though.

My father has a postwar MGTF (1954) that I might have to borrow one day for a fighter pilots view of Kent pubs.

It depends on the owners use for it. Many classic cars are restored to 100% original show condition, others are used regularly and entered into historic rallying (and yes I’ve seen DB5s on long distance rallies) where, although supposed to be original some modern adaptations have to be accepted in order to maintain their use. Such changes are usually safety related but in some cases replacements for items that are no longer available have to be considered – I’m not talking about fitting Lada bonnets on DB5s but you can usually see where something has been adapted. I’d still rather see it on the road being used than in a museum or show looking perfect but never driven.

I don’t know the reason for the modern nose on the Hurricane but someone has made the adaptation because it made assembly easier, or made it easier to fly/land or whatever. At least it’s flying.

I’m sorry but this isn’t particularly surprising. Cinemas and big cinema chains are expensive to run, need staff and a large premises. If Spitfire took in £250,000 in one night – and as far as I could tell it was only shown for one night – that is peanuts across the country when you consider a major blockbuster movie uses up at least two screens sometimes three per cinema shown three or four times per day in each screen and will make a cinema chain several million over two months.

In the big corporate world of multiplex cinemas it’s about getting as many people on seats and selling as much junk food as physically possible. A fairly niche group of aviation enthusiasts don’t even get considered at boardroom level.

Spitfire was marketed, there were adverts on billboards and in the newspapers. I only occasionally come to this website but I didn’t even know a film called Hurricane existed. I presume a large part of that is down to the available budget and presumably more was spent on the film than on advertising – I would hope this is the case anyway. Hollywood production companies will pay to push certain films into the cinemas and then spend millions more advertising the movie in all possible media. When did you walk out thinking the last ”blockbuster’ was actually any good? Yet it will make far greater margins than a film like Hurricane. The cinema chains don’t care as long as they get a good run of full cinemas.

They are not picking on you, they are picking on anyone with a niche interest for which someone has made a movie because I can probably find this topic on a multitude of special interest web forums.

I thought it was very good.

It had to be condensed into 90 minutes and availability of aircraft is always going to be a challenge when trying to tell a 100 year story. I thought they could have done it over two evenings but other than that Ewan and Colin’s enthusiasm for the subject shone through and although you can tell which is used to being in front of a camera but Colin’s insights as a recent fighter pilot were very interesting.

It is a recruitment programme as much as a history story so covering the medical and more detail on the ground with up to date equipment is equally relevant. Someone might watch it and join the next generation of RAF either on the ground or in the air.

Looking at the weather we have today [pouring it down here] how many people will want to pay in advance for the tickets if the forecast is anything less than really good.

I didn’t attend, real world getting in the way etc.

I will point out that tickets were available on the website until Friday evening. With modern weather forecasting the way it is and as we are online buying the tickets another page can give a pretty good idea if it’s going to rain, it’s not exactly hard to make a final decision as long as tickets are available. I don’t see that very different to making a decision in the morning, only 12 hours later.

It might not be ticketing, or CAA rules, it might be that the Shoreham crash and it’s associated bad press may have put the general public off airshows?