Sorry to dig up quite an old thread, but just looking at the IWM website, some way down the list of September participants I couldn’t help noticing a Messerschmitt Bf109! Are we talking Bf109e, or is this “Red 7”, which obviously would no longer be participating?
Charlie
Guess you weill all shoot me down.
Anyway
TV company needs to illustrate what happens when “old a/c crashes. Database provides link to firefly crash.
You/We feel personal affiliation and aggrieved.
BUT
BBC have just done similar with Bali bombings and I daresay next Christmas we will all be inundated with tsnami (sp?)
It may well be distressing to have such an incident relived but the tv company is simply illustrating the facts (in this case) It ain’t no different to police , camera , action or any number of programmes of that ilk.
Yes my sympathy is with those involved as with the other events publicised but that is the way the media works,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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But they don’t all show the exact moment an aircraft hits the ground and 2 aircrew are killed when it is unnecessary and unprompted (effectively out of the blue).
Its so nice to see that Susy’s gone to a good home.
See, I started making mistakes already! (tired)
it is ALMOST black, they had to borrow a canopy last week!
Yep – that’ll teach them to paint it black in the first place! Rumours are it could be the Alpha Jets going black next! Personally at this stage in its career ‘154 really ought to be heading to Cosford or Hendon…
Just got back from a press do. the first production Hawk has come in from Boscombe and was met by Duncan Simpson who flew it for the first time. Duncan will be there tomorrow and the Hawk will be on static. Duncan is a little more mobile!
First pre-production (ie prototype) Hawk, XX154 to be precise… 😀 Shame its now been RAF’d and is (almost) completely black!
How nice to see people being so positive. I wonder why people like TVOC bother if this is the thanks they’ll get…
If companies such as Marshall’s and BAES are happy to get involved then there must be a decent chance of success… 🙂 Considering I was only 11 the last time I saw the Vulcan, and don’t have many memories of it, I’d like the chance to see it again thanks… :p 🙂
Indeed. I had the problem of a two families who came and tried to take over the space Mrs C and I were sitting in, eventually they went right in front of us, and the bloke wouldn’t sit down, kept playing with his kids, and occasionally taking photos, including about 400 of his children. All whilst we are trying to watch…
He must have:
A) been ignorant…
B) thought as I was sitting down, young, accompanied and not carrying a camera, I must have had no interest at all in the airshow.
He then proceeded to move his child’s (supersize) moviestar buggy until it was virtually on the rug we were sitting on (remembering this is on the bank – it had already rolled down once…). Then he realised his two year old had wandered off about 10 minutes earlier, blamed his wife and left us in peace…
You never know what some idiot may have tried to have done… Then again, it could have been done completely innocently
The only thing I’d say is that the report could do with being in a darker font against such a light blue background. Even I was straining at times to read it against the background of the Mustang…
It was a shame, the commentator said himself that he had a few minutes to spare, so he’d talk about the aircraft for a bit – and then he only managed 4 or so of them. It would have been nice to have known who was flying what, if nothing else…
Ah well, it made up for not seeing either Cat in the air at Duxford yesterday… 🙂 😀
I was a very privelaged 13 year old at North Weald Fighter Meet in 95, and the two 109s is a sight I’ll always remember…
It was nice indeed. Watched the TFC display from Mayflower park – shame the Wildcat was closest the crowd on the first run through – its sewing machine on the front rather overpowered the smooth purr of the Spit, Hurri and P40’s V12s!
Went up to the top of West Quay multi-storey car park for the BBMF – Brilliant view…
Nice shot of the Wildcat (or so the commentator would have had you believe) in the first shot…
Shame we couldn’t have had a solo display by one or more of the TFC’s aircraft though. The Air Atlantique DC-3 was nice to, particularly being one of their more interesting ones (with a chin)…
SVAS…
I believe it was a postwar modification to certain Cats to improve rudder authority, possibly combined with an engine upgrade, but I’m sure someone will confirm if this is the case. G-PBYA appears to have an original rudder…