Hi All, is there any news on ANY progress on her following court ruling to release the parts that were delivered to the UK and then ‘stolen’? Website is down, FB hasnt been updated, i fear this project is dead as its still in Goose Bay isnt it and without the parts she cant fly anywhere.

It is a shame especially as its a sell out and i really wanted to attend but this front for a 12hr period is smack bang in the middle of the airshow section. Bloody shame as Monday is beautiful and Sat isnt that bad. Im a Sunday ticket and i will monitor up to sun morning and then decide.

Im sure that min ft for takeoff and display is 1000-1500 (500m). With the CB between 250-500ft (70-150m) its safe to say they wont even take the covers off the aircraft. AC wont be able to transit from operating bases and add to that the strong gusts there is little chance of flying.

The display at Southport this July will be the last one for Peter. He stands out as a very sharing person who deserves high accolades for many years of flying and devotion to restoring aircraft while juggling family and business.

Source? its not public knowledge if he has and normally he keeps his following folk up to date on his FB page. Would be a tragic loss to the display scene and for North Weald.

I believe they may be looking at a Legends booking after speaking to them on Facebook.

Now that would be good demo for the Gunship team!

Dan performed what seemed the same display at Manston to that of Biggin. Everyting was within a TV screen in front of you, he rolled and pulled so tightly you thought the elevators and ailerons were going to break and then you remembered this is what it was built for and how it should be flow rather than a sedate fly past. This was flying a spit at its best and certainly challenged the great man. Rays’ was different however, he flew the spit in a graceful manner going to the extremes using the energy he had with loops and rolls. They were different displays of airmanship but I think this is the closest you will get to seeing spitfire flying at its best. Well done Dan and a great end to the show on sunday and i know you had a lot of fun in the pit.

Well the list is complete, and with teh first opprotunity to see 5 Hurricanes in formation for the first time in my lifetime, its going to be a good one.

This was 12 hours on the Gnat only and averaged over the previous five years – were it not for the particularly low figure in 2011, the average would likely have been about 15 hours.

If 12 hours per year on type is considered insufficient for display flying, we may have to say goodbye to seeing quite a number of aeroplanes in flight ever again 🙁

Concur entirely with this statement. Id be interested to see all the display pilots and their hours for last 5 years on type before someone can say that’s insufficient or not. Does it say anywhere that you need to have x hours on a type per year? I would say this is potentially a problem should an AC be grounded for any reason. 12 hrs per display season doesn’t sound bad to me. 15 min display with transit of say 45mins equals 12 displays a season. Taking into effect bookings that’s not a bad return.

He simply made a mistake as we all do.