What is the latest trendy colour scheme for max visibility. Clue- look at a Tucano, it is BLACK, as are Hawks.

What colour were the glider AND the Tutor? White.

In ‘the olden days’ there were more RAF aerodromes, with more dedicated airspace, and maybe that exclusivity and Radar coverage reduced the collision risk. I flew with the cadets AEF out of Brawdy and Coltishall and apart from higher altitiude fast jets, we seemed to have the sky to ourselves.

Cadet Air Experience flying HAS indeed been suspended for the time being.

3 cadet fatalities in 5 months, all in M/A collisions.

This is likely to lead to a ‘something must be done’ reaction of putting the brakes on all cadet flying for the forseeable future. Today’s accident is a cruel twist of fate, as for many years thousands of cadets flew with no problems whatsoever.

I expect by the end of the week they will have a Tutor at Boscombe Down, as they attempt to bolt in some sort of Traffic Proximity Alert system.

I was frog-marched to the cinema by a 12 yr old boy and forced to watch ‘Terminator the Salvation’.

The overall experience leaves you feeling as though you have been mugged. People you don’t recognise suddenly appear, there is a lot of violence and shouting, you cringe in mortal terror, you sob with relief when it is all over.
And at the end of the evening, you have much less money than when you set out.

‘Confusing’ is the word which springs to mind. The two primary protaganists, Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, have such similar square jaws, buzzcuts, and three day stubble that they seem to be the same person. Some of the time. But they may not be. Or they might have gone back in time, or maybe forward.

Towards the end, the Governer of Califonia appears, but his schedule must have been so rushed that he forgot to put his clothes on. It is far removed for the original Terminator plot, which was quite simple, yet compelling in its brutal simplicity.

Special effects are outstanding, and the gigantic robots and flying machines are incredible. Intersting to see a nod to ‘Star Wars’ as a rebel A.10 chases a robot aerial battleship through a deep canyon.

In the end, it all goes a bit ‘James Bond’, as the freedom fighters break into enemy (Skynet) base, set a bomb, leap into a handy helicopter, and leg it to safety just as the place blows sky high.

The Battle is won (hurrah!) but the war continues, at least as long as sequel-writers need to earn a crust.

They’ll be back.:rolleyes:

Not to mention FREE admission!

Rides in the Moths / Dragon etc only £70, about half the price of the commercial operators, and no need to book-just turn up

Hutton just resigned- now no Defence Secretary.

I think Gorgeous Gordon may be an ex-prime-minister by sundown.

Spit and Hurri overhead Princes Risborough (near Aylesbury) heading NE at 20.35. Turned 20 degrees towards Sywell direction, but I imagine heading onwards to Conningsby?

They disappeared into the evening haze, but the merlins were clearly audible for a full two minutes afterwards.

”A pilot who died when his light aircraft crashed in a field yesterday afternoon was flying to raise money for his village church.

Hugh Wilson, 63, was killed when the aircraft came down near Stourton Caundle, Dorset. Police had received a mayday call from the aircraft at 3.03pm, moments before it crashed.

Paramedics were called to the scene and found Mr Wilson, from Hindon, near Salisbury, dead. His passenger, Emma Kenrick-Piercy, 25, also from Hindon, survived. She was taken to Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, where she was treated for neck injuries.

Krysyna Gigiel, from the Friends of John the Baptist Church in Hindon, said that Mr Wilson, a divorced father of two, had agreed to do five flights in his two-seater, charging his passengers £50 each. The crash happened on the fourth of the five flights.

Ms Gigiel said: “He had offered to fly people over the village and he was donating the money we paid towards the fund to raise money to keep the church standing and to modernise it.

“The engine cut out but we do not know why. I believe he was a very experienced pilot. It is a terrible tragedy. He was a very good, nice man.”

Mr Wilson sold executive jets and had been involved in flying all his life, Ms Gigiel said.

A man who lives close to the crash site said that he believed the plane hit overhead telephone lines as it crashed. The man, who asked not to be named, said: “I heard the engine faltering — it was spluttering as if it was stalling. I didn’t see it come down but I believe it hit the telephone lines.”

Times Online –