RE: Airshow Enjoyment – what do you enjoy about airshows?

Shame on you. x(

RE: Project FM159

It wasn’t the company I was thinking of, but the one Der refers to is ‘Retro Track & Air Ltd’, in the Cotswolds, UK, who have worked on Merlins for the BBMF and Lanc NX611 too, I believe, among many others. They’re the ones with the great little test-bed on the back of a truck, if that rings any bells with anyone! The full feature is in the September 2002 FlyPast, contact them at-01453 545360, email retrotrackandair@aol.com

RE: Airshow Irritations!

In no particular order…

1.THOSE people with their bloody windbreaks!!!

2.The total lack of any decent airshow, warbirds or otherwise, in the west;

3.Mass formations of totally unconnected warbird types; I mean, what’s the point? Really?

4.Certain places having several samey show a year, when…see 2!

5.Craft/clothes stalls-sod off back to your Saturday markets and leave us to our inflatable Hawks and stuff!!!

6.HIM. You know the one. His wife wears stillettos in the mud, and he’s got two screaming brats which he spends all day putting on his shoulders in turn and informing that every Hurricane is a Spitfire etc etc. Probably guilty of point 1, too!

7.Toilets. You, Joe Airshow Organiser-Bloggs, are expecting x-thousand people. That also means x-thousand bladders you moron!!!

8.People who take the sight of the BBMF for granted!!!

Enough!

RE: Scrapheap Challenge UK v USA v France

Yes Bob, I saw this too! I’m quite a fan of ‘Scrappie’, although it’s not quite as hot as it used to be. This was something else though-I thought all three aircraft were quite amazing, no matter how well they eventually performed!

RE: They all look good !

Absolutely!

But following on from what munnst said, we EASILY have the best looking of the two ‘flyers’ by far! While it’s great that the CWH Lanc is alive and kicking, it really has always looked dreadful finish-wise, from day one.

Mentioning ‘sterile dust traps’, I SO want to see ‘474 one day painted up as Hendon’s ‘Sugar’, it would look superb, though I doubt they’d paint her as a still-existing aircraft.

RE: So flight-sims are for kids right? Wrong! Zerstorer anyone!!!

I’m sure there’s a P40 out there somewhere-not too sure about the variants of 110 though sorry, as I don’t tend to have everything available downloaded at once, as my poor old PC wouldn’t be able to cope! The above lsting was only a quick one off the top of my head, there are literally dozens and dozens more high quality, correctly flight-modelled aircraft out there for ‘Fighter Squadron’. We’ve even got such ‘fun’ oddities as the Gee Bee, a Harrier, F-14, and Snoopy on his kennel!!!