I was down at the Victoria Bridge on Saturday afternoon. I saw the Dakota beating up the station at I presume Highley (could have been Arley also). It then proceeded to follow a train past me towards Kiddy. I thought that it would probably just roughly follow the line south, but no, the Dak followed the line straight over my position 😀 I didn’t see what they did in Kiddy, but considering I got about 5 phone calls about him, I think it must have been good.

The Spit and Hurri were supposed to be doing a flypast at Wolverley at a dedication for the wwII american hospital that was there. I only saw that from home as they went straight past us, then a single pass over the town.

There’s a nose cone from I’m not sure what (looks like it is off a fast jet) used as an animal shelter just outside Kidderminster, near the Safari Park. Local rumours suggest that it may have been aquired from the former RAF Hartlebury, on the other side of town, when it shut down.

How did you get the gear up though?

Nice and simple, or so you would have thought. Ratchet straps… The guys took the pins out of the rams on the gears, then a combination of manually pushing them up, and skill by the crane driver lowering the aircraft. Then they put the straps on to keep them in position.

Unfortunately, putting the pins back in wasn’t so easy. 😡

Don’t forget http://www.airshows.co.uk

There is a sequence of three shots in the fairford section of my site at http://dan.knight.net .
I was told a figure of 16 feet from the floor, when he SHOULD have levelled out at ~75feet. The incident was serious enough that the pilot was ordered to land by the Safety Commitee via ATC. He then spent 10-15 minutes circling the airfield, burning off fuel. I was further back in the same grandstand that the videographer was sat in, and I can tell you that he was at the same level, if not lower than I was!! Just take a look at the photos.
I believe that it has been put down to “pilot error”, though I do not know the precise reasons. The aircraft involved on the friday flew the displays over the weekend.

Maybe they could make a replica of an E.28/39 as well

They already have a e28/39 replica. There’s pics of its construction at http://www.jetagemuseum.org .

AFAIK (I may be wrong) they have Meteor, Javelin, Gladiator (replica being built), Gamecock (also being built), Typhoon(front section) plus whatever I don’t know about.

Regards, Dan

I seem to remember John saying that they were trimming down the NON-Gloster aircraft in the collection. I’ll ask him when I see him next (We work for the same company) As for the building, Sorry I don’t know.

Dan