My vote goes to all the usually nameless guys and gals who wield the spanners and the polish up at the BBMF.

Without whom…

Interesting, I’ve never seen that site before, despite searching the net for info on the Du Cros ‘Spitfire’.

Who runs the site? Clive himself? I heard he’d left his family and gone to live in Spain? Can anyone vouch for the content/quality of the VCD that is being sold there?

True enough mate, but possibly a bit beyond some people!

I’ll agree with Kev35 there, there’s no need to shout, which typing all in capitals is when online.

This is clearly a very emotive subject, and one that is going around and around in circles.

However, as I have said before, I think that in some cases when an aircraft type touches down for the last time, we should simply accept it. The Vulcan was pants-wettingly great as a display aircraft, but the amount of money being thrown at it and asked for now is pretty disgusting, when compared with what that money could do elsewhere in the preservation/restoration world.

As an LLA member I have perfect right to express an opinion about where my membership money goes, and as I am a member to directly support the Lanc in particular and the BBMF in general, I am a little mystified as to why the LLA is now putting it’s funds about in this manner. It’s not called the LVA, you know.

So, not ‘tripe’ at all.

As a member of LLA, I think I’d rather all their funding/attention stayed PA474/BBMF-bound, but there you go.

Much as I’d love to see it fly again, I think that sometimes- not always, but sometimes- perhaps we should accept that when something lands for the last time, it’s the LAST time.

(Runs to hide)

Have to say I’m not the least bit surprised that it’s not coming, though I was expecting the reason to be the distance, rather than money.