Commercials heading in and out of Stansted, Microlites from Hunsdon and the occasional burst of activity from the North Weald based aircraft of Peter Teichman if they are flying up to Duxford. The latter still gets me running out into the garden to see, just like a schoolchild 😮
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Exactly, as mentioned before there are longer stretches of motorway devoid of service areas, at 118 miles the M25 has just three,. Anyone who feels the need to rest after 30 minutes of driving should not be allowed to take their car out of their driveway :p
Phew!,
for a moment I thought I was going to read a thread asking what will be flying at Legends in 2007, Now that would start an avalanche of posts of epic proportions 😀
A mate of mine was flying over today (Friday) from the USA to be at Legends for the Sunday.
He has just phoned me, the US authorities will not let him leave the US owing to the cover of his passport being torn in one corner. To say he is gutted is an understatement.
I will send him the link to this page just to show him what he will be missing :diablo:
I have not read the full story yet but it seems that Hunsdon airfield has been spared too.
Plans for 10,000 houses on the old airfield, where ‘Operation Jericho’ was flown from, have been ‘put on ice’
Great news for NW, hoorah for a little sanity 😉
Well we have a wide range of comments for Vampire to sort through, from collecting aircraft parts through to what weapon to shoot a Zulu warrior with and whom to buy the ammunition from.
The best comment on this thread so far:
“Hitler must be turning in his Moscow filing cabinet at the thought of that”
Thanks Peter 😀
What’s the sense in collecting aviation bits that could be useful for restorations and are instead jelously kept by private owners?
Example: IIRC one of the most difficult gauges to find is the flap (or gear?) gauge for the Spitfire. Now u think it’s fair to have it in your home collection and havin a spit that could be completely original if it had it? I dunno if u follow my point here, but I find dull to have an airplane bit at home that could be useful for a restoration and it’s instead sittin in my case covered with dust..
All the “aviation things” that i have here have a meaning, both because are gifts or come from my plane.
A hand pump in a case can be a nice conversation topic, but seeing it back where it belongs to (spit cockpit for instance) would give it a different meaning and value :)Alex
Couldnt agree more, but there is nothing in my collection that could possibly be used again, if there was, then it would find a home where it could be used 🙂 .
Never seen the museum, perhaps it was not there back in the late 1970’s when I used to transport certain items from Barry docks in South Wales to RAF Welford amongst other places;) .
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