ET so will Tim be using this to commute between Home and NW?

Beats Wasps at your Barbeque I suppose:D 😉 😀

The Shuttleworth collection at Old Warden is a short Taxi ride from Biggleswade station, which is on the First Capital Connect Service out of London Kings Cross

I was briefly the Talking Baggage in the back, before I was hurled out for bad behaviour (the RAF, not the Wessex, although I did fall out of a Wessex once:D )

yes!

Well, apart from Wessex Boy – and he likes helicopters (and is therefore, a mental):diablo:

TT

Oi! I must admit to a little Mental deficiency, you had to have something slightly wrong to climb into a 25 year old collection of vibrating spare parts every day, that seemed to defy the laws of Physics, probability and Sod almost every time we flew….One of my instructors had been in 6 crashes, had had 2 tracheoctopies and wore an eye patch:eek: …..in 120 hours I only had 2 forced landings, 3 engine/computer failures and 1 Brake Fire hmmm:rolleyes:

Easy Tiger, I assume that you will have to fit Blue-Circle Radar in order to get the CofG correct:D 😉

The Valiant was an impressive engineering feat at its time – 3 years from first drawing to first flight – and one of the aircraft its designer was most proud of. A 10 year career only ended by fatigue brought on by a use it was not designed for was nothing to sniff at in the 1950s and there was nothing fundamentally wrong with it to warrant your comments…

Simon spent a lot of time at Hendon measuring up the real one, and was torn whether to use the 2 jetcat engines or to go for 4 Wrens, I think simplicity won over authenticity

Am I the only person in the world who finds the Gannet and Vickers Varsity REALLY attractive aeroplanes?!?!?!?

C6

I like the Varsity…..:D

what have failed marriages got to do with an impressive & expensive model going up in flames?

His First wife Sawed his large-scale Skyraider in Half!:eek:
He used to belong to my Model Flying Club, his Models were excellent, and his flying skills very good (rare, as good builders rarely make good flyers)

The examiner wants to see that you are safe to fly, not that you can fly as if on rails.
Give the examiner the confidence that you are safe, you know what you are doing, and that you are doing it.
Narrate everything, even scratching your nose (OK not quite that far) but if you are constantly saying that you are checking Ts & Ps, checking Fuel, doing a lookout, it will give him comfort that you take safety very seriously.
Relax and show him/her how good you are!:D