Any one here know what progress has been made to the Lightning being restored at the Gatwick Aviation Museum ,looked like they were doing a really top notch job .

Nice to see the photo of the f4 Phantom , the OFMC had a ground crew that used to run up the F4 on a regular basis with a plan to Fly it again ,,but in the end the plan never came to anything ,it was good seeing the Phantom being run up on the taxi runs , any of the Duxford ground crew still around ? umm how many years ago was that ?

There were a couple of 2 seat Hunters Flying a North Weald Airfield about 3 weeks ago on the saturday , not sure but i think they are based there now ,lovely to see from the saturday market side of the Airfield ,any one know the fuel cost to fly a Hunter for 1 hour ??

Thank you for all the info Yak Rider ,North Weald was the last place i took my Mother to before she Died ,went to all the Fighter Meet show,s from the start with Paul Warren Wilson ,John Watts and Co ,cant get down there much now i live in Norfolk ,i was coming down to the Open day on the 8th September ,but it clashed with the Seething air day up here on the same day ,perhaps they could try and arrange the open day on a different day next year as Seething and Duxford were also on the same day !! i still think the Weald will end up as a Housing Estate in the end ,Cheers Terry

And on top of all that ,they are very nice people that run the museum there ,i am at the Ramsey Weekend on sunday so i cant get to Combined Ops ,Keep up the good work Trevor

Was that the one Flying at the Mildenhall Airshow around about 20 years ago ? I have a video of it some where,it had a Bee emblem on the tail fin i seem to remember ,be nice to see it flying again

Hello Rob
you wont be seeing the Meteor any more ,its now based in Cornwall so to fly it up to Duxford and back would cost about 12 grand in fuel cost ,at 600 gallons an hour ,20 years work to get a permit to fly and base it in Cornwall ,i was in touch with the chap who worked on it for 20 years as he is also a Radio Ham

Great to see the Meteor flying again ,i was told it uses around 600 gallons of fuel per hour ,so for example to have it in a display in Duxford would cost around 12k ,just for the fuel alone ,i dont think we are going to see it very much or am i wrong ?