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  1. Agent K
    Happy to be corrected, but I don't think the RAF T1's were ever constructed/fitted with outer wing pylons?
  2. Agent K
    My word @wallyinoz what absolute beauties!
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    Wow, what great work, nicely done. Not seen one of these in the flesh but saw the similar schemed aggressor USN one at Miramar when I went out there for the Airshow at Top Gun back in '93.
  4. Agent K
    Wonderful model there, great rigging too, well done and thanks or sharing.
  5. Agent K
    Simply superb, so nicely done. Flew on the whole fleet over the years and back in the day. The 757 was always a favourite.
  6. Agent K
    Kuwait Air Force KC-130J and Hurricane R4118 today (along with usual stuff)
  7. Agent K
    What a wonderful picture, thanks for sharing. Whilst I don't know, and the rain/damp aircraft standing and grey skies leads one to believe it is a typical British summer, the trees bereft of leaves suggest it might not be summer?
  8. Agent K
    Pink "dessert" environments? too much blancmange me thinks............. 😆
  9. Agent K
    And I was 3 years late too!.......... understood and my apologies!
  10. Agent K
    Not sure why you feel in some way the EU is involved in naming it? Airbus is a commercial global company and operators are inside and outside of the EU, Malaysia for example........ 🙄
  11. Agent K
    Wow, that is just spectacular. I've been lucky to see the two fly in the UK a lot over the years, and this just looks incredibly lifelike!
  12. Agent K
    Another really superb model by you Ageel! and a great scheme too, nice to see some models of aircraft (schemes) we see less of in the UK.
  13. Agent K
    Spectacular! What a fantastic result.
  14. Agent K
    Just to add to the above, yes all the BA 767's (-336) had the RR engine, BA did not fly aircraft with any other combination. USAir/USAirways flew some of their 767-200's in BA livery and crew uniforms when BA owned a share of USAir and they flew the Charlotte and if I recall Philadelphia routes. These aircraft were never owned by BA. The BA 767 RR engine model was pretty much identical to that on the BA 747-436.
  15. Agent K
    Now if I owned/leaded/managed the hotel, straight away I'd have special airshow and event weekend packages, that includes tickets to the airshows (heck I'd have negotiated a deal with IWM for Gold Airshow passes to have a full champagne/luxury airshow weekend experience. The top floor and balcony would, I suspect be a roof top bar? with access to those paying for it/hotel guests. Doesn't take too much brain to work out what would be possible if you were charged with managing the hotel.
  16. Agent K
    Absolutely and having seen some of the funding proposals over a 10 year or so period from mid 2010's to mid 2020's government funding was forecast to be reduced by in excess of 50%. Whilst not always supportive of every one of their decisions, I also know what they are facing and trying to do to mitigate it.
  17. Agent K
    Oh that’s lovely, classic livery and a beautiful model.
  18. Agent K
    Market forces and price modelling. None of this should be a surprise. Hotels will not set rates that nobody will pay for, obviously. But.... when demand is up then rates will go up which will offset lower margins during quiet periods. If for example I want to fly LHR - MAD Monday morning in June (in normal times) it's more expensive than, say, midday Wednesday January. More people are competing for the seats.
  19. Agent K
    That was the official statement…..
  20. Agent K
    I have a lot of dealings with several East European countries, with operations in them, predominantly, Poland and Romania. In my case at least without doubt they are some of the hardest working, most intelligent and good people to have working for me. Whomever told you this, and apologies if it's somebody who is connected with the industry/Mercedes, as opposed to hearsay, I'm not convinced that the location of the manufacturing is the issue - if there is an issue.
  21. Agent K
    Not sure why you think that? hotels tend to be open year round!!!, it's not just for IWM Duxford visitors, and given the proximity to Cambridge and the M11 I'd suspect it will do quite well for business. As someone who travels a lot (or did till March last year) around the world, then a nice hotel coupled with Airspace (for events) and proximity to airports (Stansted), Cambridge city and all it's attractions and the surrounding infrastructure, the location would be quite appealing year round.
  22. Agent K
    Not at all and this has been in planning for 5 years or more, it's not recent news. The whole point is to provide more income to IWM Duxford to ensure preservation of the site and airfield, quite the opposite to what you suggest. The planned location will be well out of the way of the historic buildings too. Also it is there far more than to provide accommodation to airshow attendees 3 times a year. It will very much I imagine be used for conferences and other events too throughout the year. With it's position next to AirSpace then you have quite a destination venue for said conferences and such, and again this will bring in welcome funding to IWM.
  23. Agent K
    I'd always believed they were reflective material and there to assist rescue helicopters in spotting a downed crew. Happy to be corrected on this however.
  24. Agent K
    What an unusual and very original concept, absolutely love this!
  25. Agent K
    Spectacular! Amazing build of a favourite aircraft and squadron of mine.
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