Spitfires and UKRM - Well done

Well, you've done it. I had a phone call this morning from a Peter
Monk who is a part owner of a Spitfire flying from Biggin Hill. He has
offered an opportunity for my mother to visit the plane and sit in the
cockpit, and given my parents live in Sussex it's a mere skip hop and
a jump. Will make the arrangements April/May time when the weather is
better.

So thanks for all the ideas and contacts etc - UKRM rocks.

WELL DONE and a VERY BIG THANKYOU>

Brian

 

Brilliant!

 

Superb. Really pleased for you, and your Ma. Don't forget to take a
camera, stick the pix on a website, and post the url here.

Um - tell her not to press any buttons, OK?

We knew that already

 

UKRM - quite an amazing institution [1]

[1] I use that term loosely [2]
[2] most should be in one

 

I suppose they had to be useful for something.

 

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Great news. Hope it stays sunny on the day.

 

You mean it is possible to hire a flight place in a shite olde Spitfire?

*NEEDS*

 

This one seems to be a two seater, maybe you can thumb a lift:

http://www.ml407.co.uk/pages/

Brian

 

Well you know how it goes, enough monkeys, enough typewriters, and one
of them is bound to spell transsubstatiationism correctly

Ah, you mean the rocks, sorry about that, as you were.

 

None of them are licensed for commercial operations, i've looked into
this before, the only way to get a flight in one is to buy one (or a
share). The P51 Mustang on the other hand <checks calendar> Yep, you
can fly that, I'll report back in the summer

 

Let us know in advance, I have a "visit Dago expats in Britain" do

 

Eh? I thought this was a mere "sit in the cockpit" thing, not "go for a
spin." What's the weather got to do with it?

 

Not quite the same but in the stylee that seems to be akin to all
attractions Cornish, as in they appear more often than not to be fairly
disconnected random themes / ideas slung together, there is a place down
near Helston called 'Flambards'.

I took my tribe there just over a year ago as part of the holiday we had
down that way, and on the pretext that it was a 'theme park wiv rides an
everyfing'.

Only it isn't... it has, for the benefit of those who haven't been there, as
well as an assortment of not that great funfair stylee rides, a superb
museum, of which one section is dedicated to the armed forces and in
particular the RAF.

One of the exhibits is a Lancaster bomber cockpit... a real cockpit you can
go in and sit down at the controls / where the front gunner sits etc.

They've also got a Concorde prototype cockpit, but this is more of a 'look
but don't touch affair'.

And then, when you're bored with that, it has the most fantastic walk
through 'Victorian Town', as in a properly mocked up victorian town with
period items exhibited in a setting in which they'd have been used.

And last year they opened a new section in the same stylee, but dedicated to
articles of the Blitz.

Bloody fantastic anyway - ended up as the highlight of the week for me.

 

This is true, but the wind, snow, rain and ice of recent days could
make climbing on the wings to get in the cockpit a bit more tricky
than it has to be. Not into H & S stuff but what with limited mobility
due to much arthritis etc a significant issue. I guess also sitting in
the cockpit with the plane outside has a better 'feel' than you would
get in the hanger. A bit like sitting in a cage in the showroom versus
being on an open road.

I'm sure she will be happy which ever way.

Brian