So it’s not the IWM’s new way of displaying aircraft then?

So he’d like you to believe :rolleyes:

Originally posted by gdenney

I was there for the manic few days when TE566 and TP280 had their first flights and flew into the Classic Fighter show at Duxford too.

They were good days…

Glenn

Anyone remember Geoff Hughes????

Do you still think they were good days???

Originally posted by Snapper
She’s on Clive James as well.

Poor old boy, that can’t be very pleasant for him.

Originally posted by David Burke
Lastly a fun one would be to find a nice long part of the dual carrriage way – remove the barriers and close the M11 on a sunday for a few hours and put her down on it.
Needless to say I am talking smallest fuel load with a fuselage stripped out. Probably not very practical but I bet they could do it in Sweden !!

That would do an excellent job of sectioning the airframe, the wings would be ripped off by the embankments as it came over the hill and you could make it into a convertable as it went under the A505 junction. 😀

If they did it in Sweden they would still have a problem getting it to Duxford, mind you after taking the lid off perhaps the passengers could row it across like a Viking Warship 😀 :p

I’m off to lie down, think I must have been out in the sun too long.

I’m pretty sure it was a real Storch that came and went back to America fairly quickly.

Once upon a time, but the council soon killed that one off :rolleyes:

Graeme,

You are right if I had a warbird and could fly it I too would take it wherever I could, however this does not seem to be the view of the powers that be at Flying A Services. There has for many years now been the plan to open a museum to display the airframes however a suitable site has yet to be found, Flying A having very firm ideas as to what they want to have.
As for whether Flying A will ever operate these aircraft we will have to wait and see, however none of them were ever particularly active on the circuit when under their previous ownership and there doesn’t seem to be any particular urgency now.
With regard to preservation Flying A and more importantly Warbirds of Great Britain have worked extremely hard over the years to secure aircraft from uncertain fates which have since been passed on to other operators around the world and must be congratulated for that. Aircraft within these collections have always come and gone and I see no reason why that would not continue into the future.

As a very quick calculation I would value the TFC fleet at considerably more than the money I have available to me at the moment.