Any reason why Elvington’s Friday 13th was not selected?

‘Cos it’s not a real Halifax.

*runs*

Actually, I’d be surprised if TG could continue after this- how on earth could you have the Challenges, the Races, the Power Laps, Clarkson yelling ‘POWER!’ etc etc?

Was gutted to hear this last night- we love Top Gear here.

BBC just showed live aerial views of the crash site and the wreckage at Elvington- looked grim.

Apparently, he’d done his two record runs and was making a third run for the cameras- a bit of a no-no in record breaking land, really. TV are already essentially saying ‘what the hell was a TV presenter doing going at 300mph?’.

No further details about his condition are being released at the request of the family, which rings alarms bells for me; Lord knows what state he is in.

Get well soon, Hamster.

Surely they’re extremely well settled at Conningsby, though? Is there any real point/advantage to such a move?

This all reminds me of similar discussions about the use of the Confederate flag on the roof of the General Lee in the recent (and poo) Dukes Of Hazzard movie. In the end the flag was on the car, but with a bit of a get-out scene about it; in this case though I can’t see how they’d be able to do anything except use the name, or not.

Well last time they ran NX611 along the runway, they got her over to it with some temporary metal tracking- see the Prime Time Video ‘Just Jane’.

It could old ‘an ‘undred and ten ton’, apparently.

Wow, this is great- it would have been a shame if she never got to trundle down that old runway at near take-off speeds again, after the success of the ‘Night Flight’ runs a few years back.

Glad to read too that it’s Mike Chatterton who will be at the wheel again- absolutely no offence intended, but I do worry about the age of a couple of EK’s Lanc trundlers!

Fred will have to lay down his ‘undred and ten ton’ tracking again, too. 😉

The Vulcan is totally eclipsed by the service life of the Canberra

I agree entirely- people can say what they like, but the Vulcan is being pushed back into the air well past it’s sell-by date because it’s a magnificent spectacle to behold, and many people refuse to let that be a happy memory, and NOT because of any historical value it has.

I’ve loved it in the air in the past, and I’ve given money and will hopefully enjoy seeing it in the air again, but all this rubbish about it being historically significant enough to warrant the massive costs, even to date, has got to stop; be honest people, you just want it flying again BECAUSE!