Like Seafury Fan, this place is my “spiritual on-line home” 🙂 but I also take a gander at avi8.com now and then.
And Moggy…what kind of trolls are we talking here? Green knobbly wrinkly ugly types, or the 14 year old txtspk “duz ne 1 wnt 2 tlk 2 me” type? :p
A
Totally agree with you Moggy…this sort of reporting really gets on my wick…these reporters are more interested in selling their papers than looking at things from a rational and sensible point of view.
Also in total agreement with Ant regarding ‘Aeroplane’ publishing the Coventry pic…they’ve gone right down in my estimation now 🙁
Ashley
Thanks for sharing these Whiskey Delta 🙂
Originally posted by Moggy C
others might like to see some helicopters.Moggy
~Shudders~
Ugh :p
Stringbag…Sally B returned home to Duxford just after 4pm yesterday…I was on my way home (to Duxford village so I don’t have far to go!) travelling along Hunt’s Road into the village (runs parallel with M11), saw Sally coming in, pulled over and jumped out of the car just in time for Sally for roar right over my head as she came into land…talk about spine-tingling 🙂
A
Originally posted by Moggy C
How’s the hangover Ashley? Loved last night’s post 😀
BLEEEEEUUUUUUUURRRRRGH! 🙁 It seems that alcohol and hayfever tablets are not a good combination…my humblest apologies if I was rude to anyone last night
A Very Meek Ashley
Well…I (as ever)n will be the female in Spitfire glasses and earrings (or necklace even)…it’s a Monday night and I;m a teeey weeny bit pissed… :p Pathetic ian’t it???? Ohj dear… Iam sio agoingto teget this tiis in thr morning…
Oh Spitfries are great an’r they? Oh s***…see ypu in the morning 🙂
A
Well when I first met my husband, he thought a Hurricane was just one of those big windy things…he can at least tell the difference between a Spitfire and a Hurricane now 😉 I did compromise on our honeymoon – we only visited 7 aviation haunts :p
My life has been affected by my interest/obsession/hobby in that I could not stand the thought of working in an ordinary office 9-5 or something Politics related (I have a degree in Politics, so that would be one logical option) I felt I would not be happy unless I was working in a Museum – and giving something back to the people who gave so much – set my sights on Duxford when I left uni (Duxford has and always will be the “mecca” for me) Got a job as a Museum Assistant, and the rest as they say is history 🙂
Ashley
Good to see you all again 😀 :p 🙂
Thank you very very much Webmaster…this is more than just a forum to me, here I feel I am among friends 🙂
Thanks again
A Very Grateful Spitfire Polisher
Originally posted by Snapper
A Museum! ROTFLMAO! How many photo’s do you see at Duxford or Hendon, for example? Most of that which is given to museums never sees the light of day again. Dusty boxes on dusty shelves mate. We all know that.
That’s not strictly true…although only a limited number go on display in Museums, thousands of our photos are used in publications worldwide each year – now I don’t call that sitting on dusty shelves – the Museum’s photo collection is available to the public (and access has been made easier through the IWM’s Collection’s Online – http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk) so if stuff is sitting on dusty shelves, it’s because people are not interested, not through lack of effort on the IWM’s part.
Ashley (Honk Honk!)
P.S. This is not a blatant plug for the IWM’s collections (honest!) I just think we should make the most of what’s available to us
Relax Willow…the Proctor WAS going to the States…it is now staying at Duxford…she is safe 🙂
Ashley
Errrrr…sorry Willow, I don’t understand what you mean – can you elaborate please, thank you 🙂
A
Oops DHfan! You would have thought I would have learnt to spell by now! 🙂
Hope you get better soon Adonis 🙂