same here

Please send me 100Kilos Of Hagus to eat. 😮

Scotland Forever

Please just give up now first the English thing now Hagus.

A person called Gus laughing????????

Surely you mean Haggis that wonderfully Scottish dish.

It a total bugger trying to shoot one on the hills though and as they have 2 legs longer than the other 2 they can run round hills faster than I can with my 12 bore.

Ray Jade,

I saw a complete hunter advertised in Flypast magazine about 1 or 2 years ago for £3500.

Got to be a bargain.

Airfields wise there was in wartime use:-

Sumburgh :- is this the main airport for Shetland now ?

I have no idea

Sullom Voe:- which was a flying boat station.

Did it have a land borne runway?

Scatsta:- served as a satellite and land support base for Sullom Voe.

I would imagine that wrecks are going to be a broad mix of both Allied and Axis aircraft as bombers often had missions over Shetland and the allied fighters had to patrol.

Also wrecks will be quite well preserved if you know of or can find them as it would be very difficult to take large portions of aircraft with you on the ferry trip home or on a commercial flight. If any robbing of sites has taken place it will almost certainly have remained on the island.

Good luck and let us know what you found on you travels. And also we want to see loads of pictures when you get back.

wasnt it the British Thrust SSC car the had an aircraft cockpit or something.

Well said hairyplane.

I wouldnt actually want the firefly rebuilt after the fatal accident because of the families wishes. However if the RNHF have any sense at all they will strip out any savageable parts that are servicable so they can have another go should an airframe become available or to trade for parts for other projects.

just my opinion but then why do we go on building these aircraft to fly when the are getting old and the risk can become greater. Dont get me wrong as for me the more aircaft in the air the better but surely this raises the Static / flyable debate yet again.

What are your views.

Well said hairyplane.

I wouldnt actually want the firefly rebuilt after the fatal accident because of the families wishes. However if the RNHF have any sense at all they will strip out any savageable parts that are servicable so they can have another go should an airframe become available or to trade for parts for other projects.

just my opinion but then why do we go on building these aircraft to fly when the are getting old and the risk can become greater. Dont get me wrong as for me the more aircaft in the air the better but surely this raises the Static / flyable debate yet again.

What are your views.