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  16. Malvern photos

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    Hi All

    As the organiser for the fly pasts, unfortunately we could not include exact details for the programme as we were only informed 24 hrs before the week-end changes of planes and approximate timings.

    We applied last September and we were lucky to be allocated the Lancaster, but in July was informed the maintenance was not finished. Subsequently the Dakota was allocated to fill the spot.  The weekend before Malvern the Dakota had engine problems and the RAF replaced with the Hurricane for Saturday and the Spitfire for Sunday. As you must appreciate the RAF were trying to rearrange their flying programmes in light of the above problems, unfortunately the Hurricane for Saturday was beaten by the weather and time restrictions but I think the spitfire on Sunday more than made up for it. 

    Regards Terry Smith

  19. Turn coats and planet destroyers

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    Just to add another dimension to the debate,  I invited Chris Grayling and another MP on the transport ctte to view the work we were doing at the university and gave them both a session on our King Air flight simulator.  ( a real sim and not a play station version)   To be fair to the man he was able to handle it in straight and level 'flight'  but made a complete horlicks of the landing.  The other MP who's name I should remember was much better and even took evasion action when I inserted a runway incursion into his 'approach'    It later turned out he had some flight training whereas the hapless Mr Grayling had  no idea  of what was going on around him.    The moral of this story is that we elect politicians who have no idea how stuff works but then give them responsibility to run things.   That's why we gave a car salesman the top job in the NHS instead of to a Dr  and a former economics journalist the responsibility for planning Heathrow Airport!

    Hoges 

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