Originally posted by Flood
I’d hunt with a pack of domesticated cats – if I could get them to actually work together and not start washing or fall asleep…
Can somebody post the relevant bits about what good has come out of scarp yards over the years before Kodak thinks we are poking fun at him? I am too flu-ridden to care anymore…

Flood (AaaaCHEWWWWwwwww! Sniff.).

OK ok, the hunting “with” furry animals was a typo , much as “scarp yard” (see above) is.

Ironic indeed . Cant see the point in people enjoying images of great machines reduced to scrap.

Hunter blue note, Meteor F8 droning, F104G throttled back whining, Up engined Tomcat in burner, Lancaster (or any merlins), Shackleton, An 22, RR Kestrel for a start!

Dont think I saw Miss D last year – was she in maintenance?
Dont know about bookings – would like to see a comparison. IIRC Ive seen Deltas black one and at least one of the Exeter jets far more than Miss D.
Miss D is a cracking demo though.

I certainly dont approve of additional artwork – I was referring in the main to the Lightnings. Havent seen the Bucc lately but at least one side of the Victor is OK “I dont believe it” that they painted that pointless artwork on the other!

OOPs!! Can open, worms everywhere!!

Great debate here even if my initial reply was a touch antagonistic
Any way;

I HATED the red Flack fleet and the later Brencham incarnations.The saving grace here was that there were still Spits, Hunters, Furies, JPs etc in decent schemes , indeed were still in service !

Even that Miss Demeanour monstrosity is OK as we still have a few decent hunters around (though weve lost the best – XF516, easily the most accurate warbird jet – an absloute gem)

Likewise those awful black and multi coloured strikemasters and JPs I can live with as long as they dont go to airshows but rather the few decent ones do.

And yes I hate the Black South African classic jet collection – get ’em in proper colours!

Bruntingthorpe – keep those jets rolling!!(except perhaps the Iskra!) Accurate schemes, the smell of avtur, real oil stains and the thunder of living jets. Yes I am eternally dissapointed to see brake chutes deploy and not a lightning or 2 screaming for the heavens at a great pace but the experience is there! If we cant fly ’em I think a lot more of this should be happening and Brunty would be a great venue to host them.

Originally posted by Moggy C
Kodak.

My comments on your ‘sadness’ were light-hearted, and meant purely out of pity for your inability to share the excitement of flight that I suffer from. 😉

We are each entitled to our own opinions, I just hope you didn’t take it as a personal insult.

If so, I apologise and retract immediately

Moggy

I should think so, Ive been in floods of tears from those nasty things you said!:rolleyes:

I think Im big and ugly enough to take a few punches and Ive been called worse!
Its just refreshing that threads like these allow us to air our opinions on subjects we ALL feel passionately for, though in different ways.
That said, anyone who disagrees with me is wrong!!:D

(In my best Arthur voice) Yes the serial on Airliners net is wrong!

Havent got facility to scan an image but have several of that lovely r/w/b bird ZA326!!

Moggy, re “You are a sad person.”

Not me sir, my PERSONAL opinion is that former miltary aircraft deserve the dignity to represent their (in most cases) distinguished career as a memory to them , the men that flew, fought and died in them and the services they represent.They cannot possibly do this in garish private sponsor -ship schemes.

What if the BBMF needed to paint up PA474 in “coca-cola” colours or Sally B in a “Shell” or “Esso” scheme!???God forbid

Amen.:rolleyes:

Oh to be a number cruncher!! I should hang my head in shame….

ZA326 is the ripple bird AND its still at Boscombe! ZA328 is obviously an original camo bird and like ZA354 dosnt get out much ( feels a bit like me at the mo!)

Phew!!