Is it a tail-draggers fly -in ?

The collection has Alzheimer’s.

It was once very capable and impressive, but over time it has got rather muddled, and no longer functions very well. What it does manage to do, requires ever-increasing levels of help.

It is still much-loved, but the burden of looking after it is becoming intolerable, so it has been sent away in the hope that someone else can still cherish it, and ideally, pick up most of the bill. Maybe some weekend, we will find time to visit.

Sad, but very understandable. Nothing stays the same, so all we can do is enjoy what we have, whilst we have it.

Yeah ! Don’t they know this is the new era of Austerity !

In reply to woodbridge 10s post above, there is a no fly zone being imposed for the olympics that comes into force when Flying Legends would normally be held and it includes the area for Duxford and I think thats what the olympics have got to do with legends if I understand it correctly.

Ann

Excuse the grumpy tone, but given that the date of the No-Fly zone is very well known (July 14) and the date of last years Legends is also well-known (9-10 July) I can’t see the reason for posting as fact something which is plain wrong.

The remains have been at Membury( Berks/Wilts) for many years, and may be now incorporated into the rebuild of G-AHAG.

So the rumour IS true 🙂

You ARE planning to build a replica of the scale Short Stirling !

”Shorts built a half scale version as the S.31 (also known internally as the M4 – the title on the tailfin), powered by four Pobjoy Niagara engines, which first flew on 19 September 1938, piloted by Shorts’ Chief Test Pilot J. Lankester Parker. Everyone was happy with the design, except that the takeoff run was thought to be too long. Fixing this required the angle of the wing to be increased for takeoff, normally meaning the aircraft would be flying nose down while cruising (as in the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley). Shorts lengthened the undercarriage struts to tilt the nose up on take-off, leading to its spindly gear which in turn contributed to many takeoff and landing accidents.[6] The Short S.31 was scrapped after a takeoff accident at RAF Stradishall, Suffolk in February 1944.”

Hmmmmmm.

False sense of security, I fear.

If that Boxkite ( for instance) got into the wrong hands , the potential threat does not bear thinking about. Very stealthy, almost no radar return, the Flak guns radar lock-on would think it was a milk float and lock off again.

Then the final dive at max speed ( 30 mph ) and CRUNCH- splinters everywhere!

However, good call to scrub this evening, the weather is more Shiite than Sunni.