Mustang is usually based at the Lambourn strip

Nice vid of the place/aeroplane here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akj68vjgFYg

109 posts, and back just where we started.

Whoever would have thought it 😉

Rather a lot of stocking-fillers, I feel.

The Breitling Stearman Team are great, but there is a time and a place.

No Skyraiders this year ? :diablo:

It’s gonna be just like this 😎

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsY4G-NS0Hc

Here is a candid account of flying (once) his Elstree warbirds, by Anthony Samuelson.

”Tubby wanted to get his hands on the Irish Spitfires and guessed correctly that I was up for it. I was busy being a film tycoon in those days and did not go across to Dublin. I just handed over the cheque. A deal was done with Hamish Mahadie, sometime Mosquito Ace and flying consultant on the Battle of Britain movie, whereby the three of the five Spitfires that were capable of being made airworthy without too much expense were supplied to the film. Not much money was involved (Mahadie was a role model for every Scotsman ever born when it came to counting the bawbees) but the deal was that the aircraft would be returned to me with new Certificates of Airworthiness.”

http://www.samuelson.co.uk/blog/?p=70

Personally, my stamina to engage with this issue is dwindling, get them flying, I say, apart from special cases, like the Sahara P40.

Restorers will still restore, commentators will still comment ( mainly to themselves) , there is no ‘great debate’ that will decide this once and for all, and there never will be.

Do you really want someone else’s ‘clarification’ ? Clearly you hold robust views, but are you inviting other people to tell you that you are mistaken?

Life is too short to ride this particular hamster wheel. In my opinion.

Didn’t realise it was inverted !

What a year for discoveries, this, the P40, we just need to see a Burmese Spitfire 😉

Brilliant pic from the above link.

Oh dear, the Rain Gods really seem to have it in for Shuttleworth displays 🙁

Looking at the rainfall radar, it should be dry by mid morning, though many potential visitors will decide go/ no go when they first peer out the window.

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/