Ah yes, the man who, together with the late Kirsty MacColl, sang the finest Christmas line ever:

“You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot,
happy Christmas my ar$e, I pray God it’s our last!”

Marvellous. 😀

I agree with you that Fairytail in New york is best Christmas song ever,Ironic really that Kirsty sang with the Pogues on this song and Joe Strummer replaced Shane for awhile and they are both gone,I hope Shane lives on as the world needs people like him.

I have a collection of corgi models also how do you find out the value of them?

Originally posted by Papa Lima
I remember seeing an interview on TV once about display pilot monitoring. Someone being interviewed said that there were monitors among the crowd, not in the tower, and if they saw something about a display that they were not happy with, they could contact the tower immediately by cellphone or walkie-talkie presumably, and order the display to be terminated. If that is true, are these monitors present at all displays? It was something to do with being licensed to fly displays.

This sounds something like what Biggin Hill were doing maybe someone else has heard of this?.

Originally posted by Ant Harrington
I have to agree with RobAnt,I didn’t see anything resembling a Derry in the last moments of the Firefly’s flight. It seemed to me that the pilot was trying to pull the aircraft through a half loop, from which I would guess he intended to roll off level at the top and thus find himself heading back towards the airfield. The rolls and oscillations which the aircraft performed occurred after the stall and departure from controlled flight.I think any notion that the pilot was attempting a Derry manouvre ought to be knocked on the head.
I don’t really like to get involved in the speculation surrounding this acident,but I witnessed the accident first hand and I feel it’s important to get things right and prevent misinformation from spreading.

I also witnessed the accident first hand and have to agree totally with what you say i don’t intend to get involved in anymore speculation on this accident its morally wrong to do so in my view.

Originally posted by Wrenchbender
Yea had to do something with cast off shows! That’s why we sell them to the Britt’s The’ll watch anything! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Oh well that goes to show how much better our sense of humour is then:D .
Besides you saw that sense of humour when we sold you a crappy old Bridge that you all thought was something special.

Can’t find any info on Sandown show.

There was a 4 ship display and Flying Legends a few years back and the BBMF had a Hurricane at the same show so total of five flyers at one show.I am not sure on the year though possible 1998.