[If aerobatics are on the menu, I suggest it will be a very short display season….:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

Yes sure, but at least no boredom.:rolleyes:

To me, any of the really early racing cars like the pre war Delages, Bugattis, Alfas, Le Mans Bentleys, etc. It took some serious guts to race them. Even today, when they’re raced in historic events, my hat goes off to the drivers.

Can’t resist putting up a picture of girlfriend piloting my Bugatti T35 (reproduction) . It is quite a pussy-cat to drive, but above 70mph very windy and skittish. No doubt the real ones are much more snorty.

Went to see ‘The Road’ a couple of days ago.

Just released, it is set in a post-apocalyptic world ( cause unstated ) in which the sky is permanently grey and full of ash, no crops can grow, and most wildlife has died.

Society has broken down entirely, as the narrative follows the journey of a father and 10 year old son as they try to head south across the USA, to somewhere warmer.

Dressed in rags, foraging for food, they are in permanent fear of cannibalistic gangs who survive on human flesh. Misery is heaped on horror, in a hopeless desolate world.

Utterly dispiriting, it will leave you drained and despairing.

If the project has volunteers willing and able to attend events, and if there are enough events to keep them busy, and if the whole undertaking is still making a profit for the RBL, then there should be no question that it carries on.

”In order to fly the legendary MiG-3, Siberian engineers did a tremendous job.

”At the controls exactly the same fighter winter of 1941, Lieutenant Pashkov knocked fascist bombers on the approaches to Moscow. Then the four thousand Henkel flew to the city a little more than a hundred. In response, German fighters began to hunt for MiGami. In one of these battles Ivan Pashkova plane was shot down, and the pilot barely had time to jump with a parachute from a burning car.

Airplane Pashkova exploded in the air. But the wreckage of this moment more than half a century had lain in a swamp near Tver. They found the search engines. The plane crashed after the pilot Yuri Alekseev led to a fire two Messerschmitt and rescued the detachment commander. Survivor fuselage fighter was taken to Novosibirsk. Here the car was collected literally a cog, restored the drawings, studied pictures of military chronicles and old photographs.

Engineers actually repeated the way the designers of the first high-altitude interceptor, the Mikoyan and Gurevich. Collected aircraft decided to put on the wing.

Recycled months experienced fighter on the ground. Checked every detail, tested the operation of all systems. And now the legendary MiG-3 is ready to rise again in the sky.

Even in 20-degree cold cockpit open. It flew during the war. Cover glass bell prevented follow the enemy, it often gets jammed and the pilot was unable to leave the falling plane. To avoid frost-bitten face, experienced pilots were treated his goose fat.

During these tests the pilot repeat the stunt, which at the same plane carried the famous ACC Alexander Pokryshkin. Then no one can call it a fighter only a museum piece.

Boris Ossetia, the president of the Federation aviarestavratorov Russia: “This is the restored history, this link between generations. Remember the song” Moment between past and future? “And just this machine combines the moment between past and future – MiG third.

Restoration of the legendary MiG – only the beginning of a great work of engineers. Enthusiasts have already restored the I-16 fighters, ground attack on the stocks IL-2. They dream of a national collection of flying aircraft and see how these war machines will open the Victory Parade in the sky over Red Square.”

Interesting to learn that Western warbird procedures have got as far as Russia, with this pristine fighter being restored from just a cog!

I suppose it is like having a bit of DNA.

Pednor Valley, Chesham, 17/12/09

If you can recruit the Victor pilot from Bruntingthorpe, I might come. :diablo:

Quite a few years ago I was incarcerated in hospital, and ‘Happy Landings’ was a very welcome distraction. A close up picture of that glider was on ther rear cover.

I was most grateful when a rather attractive young nurse came past one afternoon, and sat, passing a few minutes chatting about this and that. She spotted the book, lying face down, and after a pause remarked
”Quite unusual to see a man reading a Barbera Cartland book!” and with that she rose and dissapeared, never to be seen again….:confused: