Teeside is a ghost-town of an airport.

Go to the website and look at their online arrivals board, something like four movements a day sometimes 😮

It may have a future, but heaven only knows what form it will take. I hear it is losing a six figure sum every month. And who would take an arcade outlet lease, when only 500 people pass through in a day?

So many of these regional airports chased out general aviation, and then the staff sit around with nothing to do. Norwich did the same, with an airspace grab as a sideshow, and they now have fewer movements than a half-decent farm strip.

Furthermore, try to put the squeeze on Ryanair for airport passenger fees, etc, and O’Leary will be out of there quick as you like.

No doubt people assume the good times will return, but it ain’t necessarily so.

Did the Oxbox really fly as recently as 1978 ?

I was a ‘keen spotter’ by then, as as far as I knew, there were no longer any flying examples.

Here she is flying in 1967, pic courtesy of our own Adrian Balch.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/egbj/5606691595/

I fear he was to quick too post. :rolleyes:

Quickest report I recall seeing.

Still, if it is reasonably clear what happened, and the pilot says that IS what happened, no need for The Spanish Inquisition.

I think that pilot was having a bad week ( see second link)

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/DH82A%20Tiger%20Moth,%20G-ANPE%2012-11.pdf

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/DH82A%20Tiger%20Moth,%20G-APAO%2012-11.pdf

What a ridiculous statement. One case of fuel starvation constitutes a “track record”? Ridiculous.

Exactly.

One heavy landing at Denham, and touching down short of the threshold at DX, and he come over all ‘elf and safety ‘ 😉

Third time lucky, I say.

It WILL look fantastic, and though I have no knowledge of team or how they will be operating the Blenheim, I am certain that their planning will be professional and painstaking.

Have happily signed, although last week I had an e-petition rejected.

This was to have the names of eighteen convicted and executed murderers (including one double child killer) and the name of one executed spy removed from the Brookwood CWGC Memorial to the Army “missing” of WW2. They have “no known or honoured grave” because they are buried in British prisons and the Army forgot to give them a dishonourable discharge the day before execution as was the way with RAF or RN murderers. Thus, Gnr Ernest Kemp RA is perhaps one of the very first Army casualty of D-Day. He died on the gallows at Wandsworth at dawn on 6 June 1944 for the brutal murder of WAAF Miriam Deeley.

The MOD refuse to have the names removed.

I think the MOD are correct.

It sounds like a spiteful and demeaning request, and frankly, a bit nutty.

It reminds me of 1660 , when the parliament of the day dug up the three year old corpse of Oliver Cromwell, to be punished again by public hanging.

Even murderers are eventually released, when their time is served, we do not damn them for all eternity. One could make a case that war memorials commemorate the service of the dead, not just the manner of their demise.
These individuals have served, in some capacity.

I concur that their names are amongst more elevated company, those whose honour and bravery is untainted, but if anything good can come from armed conflict, it is forgiveness and a sense of perspective.

On balance, it would probably have been more appropriate to omit the names, but, hey, 65 years have passed, and there are surely better ways to spend time and money than bashing old war memorials about

If you know the reg search here.

You also could try searching by type.

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/home/index.cfm

I would be very surprised if the thief was unaware of this thread. 😡