Just to re-cap.

2007- Admission to Woburn Abbey for Moth Rally- £15 per person

2008 Admission to Halton for Moth Rally – NO CHARGE !!!!!!

Thank you, Royal Air Force. And a Station Commander who likes aeroplanes!

G-ANLW was flown in spurious miltary colours for the WW2 (!) drama ‘Eye Of The Needle’ .

I can’t see the BA surcharge directly affecting historic a/c operations, but in general the fuel situation must begin to bite.

You will probably see it first in entry level ‘warbirds’ , simply becuase if money were no object most people would go straight to the more snorty end of the spectrum, thus probably we’ll see Harvards coming on the market with very little take-up, as well as Yak 52s and other fuel-guzzlers.

It would be great to imagine there is some light at the end of this particular tunnel, but I simply cannot see it

Jeff Hawke would have approved !

I saw something similar a few years ago, as the B25 positioned from DX to Fairford on a very thick afternoons , a grey thundering apparition whipping through the lowest tendrils of cloud at about 700 feet heading for the Chiltern ridge somewhere near Princes Risborough-must have had balls like Space-Hoppers!

A number were built (4-6?) in the USA round about 1980 for the movie High Road To China ( Tom Sellick) but not used for some reason, with various Stampes and Stearman being sourced as an alternative, mainly in UK and taken to Yugoslavia.

PPS at Booker were involved, and Dave Perrin lost his life in a helicopter accident during the filming.

There is usually something interesting to see at WW if the weather is OK.

We have 7 Tigers, 2 Jungmann, DH 60, SE5 rep, Moth Minor, Miles Hawk, Harvard, Me 108, 4 Cubs, 2 Chipmunk, Jungmeister, 2 Stampes, Stinson Reliant, Luton Minor, Hornet Moth, 4 Yak 52’s, Starduster, 3 Pitts, and a smattering of spam ( as well as others I have forgotten) .

P40 and Spit are often in.

PR Spit (Peter T) over Chorleywood 13.00 yesterday, heading west