Theatre Of The Air – oh no.
The royal tournament bit won’t be happening now, but like you say, the traffic horrors alone will be enough to keep many (including me) away. Unless there is worthy evidence that improvements will be made, of course.
German jet type thing:
As of this morning, RIAT organisers stated they were still going ahead, though they have dropped the Defence 2003 element. However, there must be at least a question mark hanging over the event.
PS – Willow – what is the rubbish they have planned? I haven’t been following it.
Zippo isn’t pretending otherwise. Personally I thought they were absolutely hilarious. A great bit of comic relief 😀
If we’re talking about the pic of MH434, the photographer was Katsu Tokunaga, OFMC’s primary air to air snapper.
Brilliant Seafuryfan – I love the fact that the Buffalo vs Zero scenario lasts a mere one minute. Probably even less considering the Stukas will be forming up behind.
I’m confident that when it comes to flying hours I hold the forum record…..
For the least that is.
Currently I have 30 mins.:rolleyes:
Originally posted by Simmer
Thanks Steve, I’ll trawl through Amazon.PS. noticed you’re into ‘loud’ music, are you the same BeeBee who wrote Head Bangers’ Ball perchance?
Yes Simmer, I am the self-same Steve Beebee of ‘Kerrang!’ and ‘MTV Headbangers Ball’ infamy. The latter is no more, but ‘Kerrang!’ continues to go from strength to strength, and I still write for them on a regular basis.
Cheers,
Steve
Have a read of ‘Propellerhead’ by Antony Woodward (HarperCollins). This is an extremely funny and poignant biography of a Londoner who longs to fly and discovers microlighting as the only affordable method.
It underlines both the joys and drawbacks of coming into the microlight world from scratch, and is written in the same sort of style as the novels of Nick Hornby. Very readable and great fun, you should find it at your local Waterstones etc for about £5.99, or if not, certainly on Amazon.
Steve
PS – Woodward learns to fly in Norfolk so you might even recognise some of the locations
Originally posted by aviddriver
Didn’t I read in Today’s Pilot’s letter pages that Turweston had a problem with public access to fly-ins? Did this ever get resolved? Someone told me this weekend that the olf Tatenhill fly-in has had to move because of this reason too! World’s gone crazy!
Not sure if Turweston have had problems in the past, but I can tell you that their most recent fly-in (last month) had no accessibility problems at all. In fact, it was one of the better ones I’ve been to so I can heartily recommend the next one which is scheduled for Saturday April 12th. 😎
Steve
The purpose of fly-ins is to bring the GA community together, encourage more people to get involved at all levels, and to let pilots have a good look at one another’s aircraft. The public should definitely be encouraged to do the same, or flying will become regarded as even more elitist and inaccessible than it is now. Presently, only small numbers of the non-flying public attend typical fly-ins, and consequently safety issues can be handled appropriately. If fly-ins got to the stage of attracting significantly greater numbers, then clearly safety issues would become paramount, but at the moment more all round participation and co-operation is what’s required.
Let us brace ourselves for take-off.
This should turn out to be a great forum, and one that will serve the GA community well. 🙂