Ere, wot you doin in the MIDDLE of the airfield?
”git orf my laand!”
You’ll be attacked by the hares 😉
The new combi boiler- cost a bloody fortune, that did.
And the new radiators, there no way I’m leaving them.
The new combi boiler- cost a bloody fortune, that did.
And the new radiators, there no way I’m leaving them.
From the local rag-
”It is also understood it took off from Exeter International Airport before those flying the plane took the decision to crash-land after losing power at around 2,000ft.”
Case solved- BAD decision making :rolleyes:
That link does not say that the crew ejected.
G-AKXS had an incident at White Waltham in 2002, at the Members Air Day.
In the words of the CFI to the local paper, it ‘took a heavy landing’.
The owner/pilot hurt his back, but was up and flying again before too long.
The aeroplane remains in a long-term repair programme.
If you are looking for a non-secular reference, the Tiger Club operated some Super Tigers (as they called them) The Bishop, The Cardinal, The ArchBishop, as I recall, and maybe some wag daubed them with alternative monikers for a short spell.
That Starduster has JUST flown!
On Sunday I was told it would make its first flight some time this week, weather permitting. Great job.
Is that the most expensive one ever??
Whoever organised the hype, sorry, ‘PUBLICITY,’ did a pretty good job as it has been all over the media for weeks.
High values placed upon these aeroplanes is not neccessarily a good thing, since the insurance premiums rise, hourly operating costs rise, airshow display fees presumably rise etc.
If they are so rare and expencive now, somebody should build some new ones to the original drawings, a sort of exact replica that perhaps could be operated at a lower cost and…………..oh, hang on :rolleyes:
Hi!
Of the two, the Mk II was nicest for ground attack as the radial was a lot less vulnerable to ground fire. although the Mk VI was slightly faster. Both were absolute devils on the ground. No visibility forward and it is/was the only aircraft I have flown where you need the brakes to keep straight during take off . A moderate cross wind from port helped a lot. One from starboard made take off virtually impossible, but landing was not too bad for those days.
There’s nothing like a bit of inside-information! Welcome on board.
Blimey – that’s a bit of a coup for this usually low key event! That’ll be a crowd puller – well done!
Not realy that low key – in a quiet but efficient manner
it has got bigger and better by the year, and is a very respectable event by any reckoning.
Horses for courses, and all that, but I would spend a day at Abingdon in preference to the RIAT, as I don’t require to be financially mugged, forced to walk 50 miles, shoved around and frisked by security Nazis, and get lost in a crowd of 100,000 people.
Plus, I am allowed to fly in, which is a bonus 😀
Cameras at the ready!
Well crafted, very cinematic.
I note the nod towards the ‘Band of Brothers’ style of stirring orchestral soundtrack, coupled with slightly slowed-down footage, smoothly bleeding from one sequence to the next, alternating ‘human interest’ shots with the aircraft. This should be particularly well received in the USA.
Nice touch with the PR 19 doing the slow-motion wingrock- echoes of the Mustang (Ray Hanna) in ‘Empire of the Sun’.
Certainly makes me want to go, and I am already cursing the Saturday booking I have accepted to photograph a wedding….grrrrr!
They simply can’t go on like this.
Shame- we are down to one licenced airfield in Berkshire also.
On the spotting front , saw a Skyvan tracking over Bovingdon 20 mins before sunset, heading north-west. Not seen one in yonks.
This aeroplane was imported in the ’70’s by the celebrated aviator Maurice Kirk, and for which he was prosecuted for offering joyrides whereby he performed vigourous aerobatics, though the airframe was ”riddled with woodworm” and unfit for flight.