London City Airport? Built in the late 1980s….

Dundee airport has been there for years, but ‘upgraded’ to have a tarmac runway fairly recently (1970s?)

Ok, I have to say it.

People are losing their houses and jobs, major companies are going bust and you still think companies and individuals are going to give some major sponsorship to keep a big, noisy, non-PC jet flying around for fun and adding to the carbon content of the atmosphere, just so the enthusiasts among us can see it at airshows?

Money pit. Always has been, always will be……….

Thinks: Lets also get Concorde flying as well:D

I also read in this month’s ‘Today’s Pilot’ that some entreprenurial fellows have the intention to get Shackleton WR963 into an airworthy condition and are ‘looking for donations’. I can see the whole XH558 saga unfolding again chaps!!

……….Ducks for cover and exits, waiting for the inevitable flak….

I think the smiles are actually frozen…………………

A warbird, pretty much the same for any aeroplane, is only worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it.

I also noted that the Tiger Moth which hit the cow, and featured in a YouTube video also appeared…..

Pilot, 45, 8200hrs on type…. That’s an awful lot of flying on a Tiger Moth, maybe a typo?:eek:

Try GAMA at Farnborough

I think you might be thinking of a fatal Turbulent crash at a display at Sleap, Shropshire. I witnessed it but the details are pretty vague after all these years.

G-AWPB Rollason D.31A Turbulent written off during an air display at Sleap 25/5/70

The Corsair flew from Earls Colne to Bournemouth on 2 April 1997, and from Bournemouth to North Weald on 10 September 1997, together with a Wildcat (Can’t remember the registration)….