All the winners of the Eurovision song contestants….and get them a gig as a lounge act on the Titanic.

That be the only time you could say such music went down well 😀 .

Of the three i feel Cars are the most dangerous, No matter how good you are as a driver it only takes one idiot to kill you. There are many people on the road without licences and insurance etc, It hardly feels you with confidence, I don’t drive partly for this reason.
Lets be honest Trains are very safe and theres not many serious let alone fatal accidents involving them usually, Its the same for Aircraft very few accidents occur concidering amount of people who travel.
Sadly both Rail and Airline accidents have potential to kill hundreds in one accident.
There is also a arguement that you may walk away from a Train or rail crash but no matter how hard you flap your arms your not going to fly away from a plane crash.

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-I was actually quoting George Harrison in one of his rare interviews who said that if John was still alive he would have very likely joined the Wilburies….-

I would like to think he would have joined the Wilbury’s he already liked Jeff Lynne saying E.L.O was the sound the Beatles would have moved on to had they carried on, he knew Roy Orbison well also and i expect would have loved a fellow writer such as Bob Dylan and i guess him and Tom Petty would have got on well as Tom huge fan of his.
Its sad to say the Wilbury’s are really joining him in Rock heaven slowly with George and Roy already gone, Personally i am glad to see i am not the only one who is a fan of the Traveling Wilbury’s and its nice to hear them mentioned from time to time.
I think John would have kicked Paul up the backside for the way he is now and called him a sell out, Mind you i think he be disapointed in the Rolling Stones for becoming establishment and probably think the same of Ray Davies of the Kinks too, Mind you 24 years is enough to change anyones views and the only thing you can say for sure that Lennon would still be is a Legend of his time and a huge Peace campainer.
Some people are ment to die young and John was never ment to be old in my view.

Yep, I’m with Septic on this one. White Lightnin leaving the States would be like MH434 leaving England. Just shouldn’t happen. Too much history here.

Dan

I tend to agree as well, I would love to see any Lightning fly in Europe again but White Lightnin is a bit too special to ever leave the USA.
As to the CAA there is no reason why they would not let her fly here that i can think of.

There’s a penny very slowly dropping for me over these few months I’ve inhabited this place. This P40 is Merlin powered. Everything seems to be Merlin powered. Why?
Is it because …
– there’s a thriving rebuild, parts market?
– there’s a lot of crankcases or other fundamental parts about the place?
– they’re better (if so, in what way)?
– they’re cheaper?
– there’s not really anything else?

The Merlin is the correct P40 so is a great addition to any collection,I have always wanted to see a P40F partly to see how different it is from a Allison powered one.
I kind of disagree that everything is Merlin powered many rebuild or reworkings end up with Allison engines think of the new build yak3s and yak9s as a example,Its natural to say there are more merlin engines flying than any other WW2 engines but then they did power some of the most inportant and sucessful Aircraft of that era.

My alltime favourite has to be the Gloster Gladiator partly because is was about as far as the Bi-Plane design could be pushed to at its time its closed cockpit was closer to designs of monoplanes than biplanes.

I also love the Stearman i think its mainly because they are so robust like a trainer should be.
For beauty the Hawker Hind or Nimrod wins hands down.
I also confess i love Pitts Specials too always have i remember even as a kid they seemed pretty small and i think thats part the attaction.