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Replica Warbirds - The FLYER Show - 4th June 2026 · Flyer Magazine

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_03: This is the Fly Showing podcast form from the Team at Flyer.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's your weekly dose of general aviation news, views, and flying chat.
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  SPEAKER_03: In this episode, we take a look at the world of replicas, plus pick three of our own from the classified.
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  SPEAKER_03: Plus, as usual, observations, digressions, opinions, and all sorts of stuff from the team.
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  SPEAKER_03: So if you like aeroplanes, airfields, airspace, and all the other stuff that goes with it, you're in the right place.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_03: What's week?
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  SPEAKER_03: My name's Ian Seeger, I'm EdHicks, and I'm Dave Corderwood.
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  SPEAKER_03: In this week's show, we'll be talking about the world of replicas.
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  SPEAKER_03: We've all been looking to pick our own, um, plus all the other usual stuff that we do.
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  SPEAKER_03: But first of all, before anything else, I would like to say huge thank you to Sky Demon for supporting this, and here is this week's top tip.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi, I'm Tim from Sky Demon.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to this week's top tip.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the latest version of Sky Demon, for the first time we draw flight information service boundaries in our main map.
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  SPEAKER_02: In the Sky Demon chart styles, these appear as dotted green lines.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Here we can see the boundary between two of the Langen information zones in Germany.
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  SPEAKER_02: And if we scroll across into Austria, we can see how the division of Vienna information looks and the appropriate frequencies to call.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: As always, you can see the appropriate flight information service to call for any position on the map by bringing up the What's Here menu with a long press.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'll see them listed near the bottom of the screen, and you can tap to see more information, which will also briefly highlight the border in the main map.
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  SPEAKER_02: For our full user manual, go to skydemon.ero and choose help and support.
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  SPEAKER_03: So FAS boundaries are always very useful, particularly if you're flying through France and you're going, who the bloody am I going to get a service from next?
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: If they haven't handed you over, which they normally do, to be fair.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_03: You just hold down, have a look, bish bash, brush.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_03: Wondering when those funny frequency things are going to change from London Information.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_03: Wonder no more.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: Wonder no more.
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  SPEAKER_04: Put your finger down and hold it there.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_04: Fantastic.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_04: Talking of wandering no more, has anyone seen the weather at the moment?
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_04: Because the the weather program appears to have gone completely crazy since last week.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: One minute, you're like, oh my god, it's just so hot.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_03: And now it's like two wet.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_04: So should we see what Simon says the weekend might have in store for us?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_05: Evening all, how are you doing this evening?
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  SPEAKER_05: Hope you are looking forward to the weekend and possibly getting some flying in as well.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_05: We'll kick off with Friday because Friday actually is going to be one of the better days.
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  SPEAKER_05: So we've got a rigid high pressure building in tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_05: You can see it here on the forecast chart.
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  SPEAKER_05: The isobars there making that end shape.
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  SPEAKER_05: And look at the cloud.
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  SPEAKER_05: It's broken really for most of the day.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yes, we're going to get one or two showers around in the afternoon across the Midlands, across South West England, Western Wales, parts of Scotland, but these aren't ruining things too much.
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  SPEAKER_05: Increasing cloud for Southern Ireland and for South West England later on, with some rain arriving as an area of low pressure moves in.
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  SPEAKER_05: But typical base is 3,000 to 4,000 feet, tops at around 10 to 12,000 feet, perhaps a little bit higher than that across western parts of Scotland where we see more showers.
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  SPEAKER_05: But overall it's a fair day with light winds.
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  SPEAKER_05: Now that rain tracking its way northwards and slowly eastwards as we go through into Saturday morning, and that's going to set us up for quite a damped start to the day across much of Ireland, across Wales, across the Midlands, across southern parts of England.
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  SPEAKER_05: The rain ban does actually fade.
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  SPEAKER_05: You see it here doing so as we get into the afternoon.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_05: Although it lingers across Scotland and into northern England as well as Western Wales, well into the afternoon and evening.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_05: Now I think what will happen is it will leave us with a cloudier day across central and southern parts of England, although a few bright spells will develop later on.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_05: But I think really for much of uh Northern Ireland, for Scotland, for Northern England, possibly Western Wales, it's non-VFR.
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  SPEAKER_05: We've got one of those damp days with a thousand to three thousand foot bases and twelve thousand foot tops.
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  SPEAKER_05: Elsewhere, it starts non-VFR for most of us with that rain and low cloud, then it becomes uh probably marginal to VFR in the afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_05: A few showers, a few outbreaks of rain, western Wales, southwestern parts of England.
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  SPEAKER_05: Bases around at 2 to 3,000 feet, and tops at around 10 to 12,000 feet.
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  SPEAKER_05: A bit murky through the English Channel as well.
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  SPEAKER_05: It's all a bit of a mess for uh Saturday, but as you can see there, it kind of does get a little bit better as we go through the day for England and Wales.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_05: But you need to play really very carefully, watch the forecasters that come out um during Friday evening uh with the outlook for Saturday, just keep a very careful watch on those official forecasts.
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  SPEAKER_05: Now, Sunday, we're going to be finding an area of rain probably through Scotland, through northern England, extending down through western Wales, southern parts of Ireland.
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  SPEAKER_05: That brings non-verifar conditions here.
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  SPEAKER_05: Bases could be less than a thousand feet, tops about ten thousand feet.
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  SPEAKER_05: Also, low cloud and fog may affect the southwestern coast of England.
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  SPEAKER_05: Less than a thousand foot bases again, tops at around five to ten thousand feet.
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  SPEAKER_05: Elsewhere, a bit murky, bit messy, but getting better the further east you go.
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  SPEAKER_05: Bases here two to four thousand feet, tops about eight to ten thousand feet.
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  SPEAKER_05: The potential for a pleasant afternoon, actually, for East Anglet and for parts of southeast England, although the southern coast is always affected by that low cloud, and some heavy showers to come across western parts of Scotland, non-ver generally here.
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  SPEAKER_05: Two to three thousand foot bases, fifteen to twenty thousand foot tops, and some QMs, but eastern Scotland look as if um England does a fair better there.
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  SPEAKER_05: So it's a bit of a messy one.
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  SPEAKER_05: There are some windows to be found in there.
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  SPEAKER_05: I think Friday at the moment is probably the pick of the date.
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  SPEAKER_05: And what have you got planned for the next couple of weeks?
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_05: Well, why don't you choose me on uh join me on the Tuesday evenings of the 16th and 23rd of June between 6:30 pm and 9 pm when I'm going to be presenting Aviation Weather School Part 1 live?
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um this is your opportunity to take yourself uh beyond the uh PPL Met, beyond the ATPL Met, and get your weather knowledge well and truly grounded.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_05: I'll show you how to spot weather windows five days in advance.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_05: I'll build your confidence in forecasting yourself and show you how you can accurately forecast cloud bases, cloud tops, visibility.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_05: I'll show you how you can forecast rain, showers, mist, fog, winds, wind direction, wind speed at different levels.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_05: Loads to cram in in those two weeks.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_05: You get a recording of each of the sessions to watch as well afterwards, so you don't necessarily need to join each of the sessions live.
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  SPEAKER_05: You can book your place now.
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  SPEAKER_05: I've got two places remaining.
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh you can book those now by using the QR code you see there or go to weatherschool.co.uk.
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  SPEAKER_05: It'd be super to see you there.
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay, whatever you're doing, have a great, have a safe, flying weekend, despite that messy weather situation.
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh, and I'll catch you next week.
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  SPEAKER_05: Bye for now.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: More rain.
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  SPEAKER_01: More rain by the look of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whetio.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's gone from scorchier to wetio.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, what a I did read a thing about it was gonna someone talking about there being a big booming El Nino and we're gonna have a is this the the weather we're that we're s we're encountering at the moment is something to do with the jet stream, isn't it?
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_04: I think.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_04: I I saw something online that there was a big chunk of jet stream that was unusually south or something.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh most of our weather is affected by the jet stream, but the El Nino thing is supposed to happen every seven years, warming in the Pacific off Peru.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's supposed to be a super El Nino at the moment, yeah.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I do like a super El Nino, yeah.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna end up sounding like those American TV weather people who like broadcast 24 hours and put in so much excitement, it's unbelievable.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_03: I can't imagine that's going to happen.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: No, probably not, probably not.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: News.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_03: News News time.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_03: Should we have some?
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we should.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've got three little three airfield stories to talk about today today.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the company that runs it, has put forward its ten-year master plan.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: It involves uh let me get it right, it involves more office space, more commercial activity, 200 apartments, affordable housing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not one mention, or there is one small mention of aviation, and that is the Evito pad, the Heli pad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh apart from that, they don't talk about aviation at all.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_04: So is BIST uh is that it BISTA's closed to aviation?
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well it it would they would deny that, of course, but it uh it appears that way.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: You look at the uh master plan image, there's not much of the old original airfield left.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: Certainly no question of being able to land into wind should we arrive in a World War I know biplane.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's um I mean what they've done at Bista, you have to say, is fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've really developed the place brilliantly.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um you can't knock them for that at all.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_04: They've managed to close an airfield by stealth.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_03: Wasn't there a heritage in the name somewhere at one point?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: It was Bister Heritage, wasn't it?
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_03: Is the Bista Heritage become Bister Motion?
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: They quietly seem to have dropped that.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's just Bista Motion, yeah.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_03: More motion, less heritage.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_04: Though they would argue lots of heritage, because obviously they they have repurposed lots and lots of the buildings.
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  SPEAKER_04: There's the that hang that hangar that used to have have aeroplanes in it now has a cart track in it.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_04: That's that's great use of heritage.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: But and also all the old buildings which were part of the original RAF camp, they were in a pretty tatty state.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: They've done brilliant things with all those.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: So you can't knock what they've achieved.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's just that it's no longer.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_04: They've just deleted an airfield.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: They've just deleted an airfield, yeah.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_03: Well, at least you can use the Heliport vertical, whatever it's called, Vertiport.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_03: The Vertiport?
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_03: You you must have used that when you did the photo shoot.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_04: Funnily enough, we did take I I was involved with um with Skyfly last year and we took um the Skyfly.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: Took an axe, um two uh two Bista, uh, but obviously the Vertiport that belongs to another EVTOL company, so couldn't use that.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: Skyports.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_03: Oh learned an e VTOL on our Vertiport.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_03: We're too busy with other Vertiports.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Next airfield story.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Nottingham Airport.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: The Save Nottingham Airport group, run by uh Sarah Deacon, campaigner up there.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they're raising funds for a legal challenge.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: They've they've applied for a judicial review of the supplementary planning document that uh the basis of whole development proposal is uh is on.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um they say the the campaign group says there are serious flaws with this document, such as the land is poisoned because it's XRAF and there's been all sorts of stuff has been buried there over the years, and there's all sorts of other things as well.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: So um they're trying to raise funds to uh get this challenge going.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's a good thing there.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: Third story, final story, a bit better news.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um Irish airfield for sale.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's a very popular GAA airfield, uh south of about 30 miles south of Dublin, so a brilliant location, really.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's right on the RSC coast.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you look at the pictures, it's it's stunning, isn't it?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: It is stunning, yeah.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: But what is it called?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: Newcastle Aerodrome.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: Critical information.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's a good bit of information that.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: There's 141 acres of land.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: They've got a 690-metre grass runway.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: There's soon, two runways, two grass runways.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and according to the agent, extensive planning work has already been undertaken for a dedicated vertical.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: That means trouble.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: A drone training and testing centre, the additional hangar development, and a professional flight training facility equipped with airline simulators.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, in other words, what's what's a pristine bit of land at the moment is gonna they've got pl plans for development.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's up for sale at 16 million euros, that's about 14 million quid.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's quite punchy.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: It is quite punchy.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_04: But but wait, you could you couldn't couldn't weren't you able to buy Gloucester Airport for like 25 million?
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's right, yes.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: But this is at the moment this is fairly pristine land.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I mean it's a it's a beautiful situation, but I didn't know I looked at it and thought, hey, 600 metre strip on the coast, that'd be nice.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe I could move to Ireland.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_03: Then I saw the price of what maybe not.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's been put forward as if they've got development permit uh they've got development permission.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you'd say.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I can't afford it, so neither could I.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_03: Very good.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully it remains.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we can hope.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_03: Next.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_03: Who's next?
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_03: Is it US?
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's me.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: And if you're fortunate enough to have a Cubcrafter's Carbon Cub UL, which isn't short of performance, uh you can get even more performance now, and all for a remarkably low price.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_04: So uh you might remember a guy called Luke Japila.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_04: Luke landed his his Carbon Cub UL on uh uh he landed that on the helipad of the Burj Al-Arab hotel.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, something like that, yeah.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_04: Does it?
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the Burj.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_04: Um uh in Dubai.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_04: Um probably not got that many people in it at the moment, I would have thought.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe not.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_04: Um but anyway, so he's been working with RS Flight Systems and they make um uh various bits of uh har software and hardware for the engine install in the carbon cub.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_04: And they've come up with a uh performance enhancement package that doesn't touch the engine, it just uh just adds improvements.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_04: So you get quicker acceleration during takeoff and go around, improved climate performance, increased cruise speed, and improved deceleration and energy management.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_04: And it's all accomplished through software.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think I've ever heard of something like that just through a software change on a light aeroplane before.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: Plenty of car.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_03: I mean you can like you can drive around almost any anywhere and get your car chipped, can't you?
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_04: You get your car chipped.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_04: But now you can get your if you have a carbon-covered US.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_04: You can get that chipped.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um But you were saying it uh they don't turn up the boost or it's just appear that too chip.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_04: Trevor Burrus, it appears to not do anything engine related.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_04: It's all it's just all through how the engine's controlled, uh, and that's obviously through working with um uh with RS flight systems.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and apparently because of that, it doesn't affect your w Rotex engine warranty.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_04: So um that's pretty cool.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: I bet you I bet you Rotex again.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not entirely sure that we agree with this.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_04: Well, that's I can yeah if you think about it, I can imagine how because obviously it's um I think it's is it single lever that operation?
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_04: I think uh certainly the the RS flight systems controller probably looks after um boost and uh uh things like prop control and other things like that.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm guessing it's all clever all clever things in there.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: So uh maybe we can find what's Luke Jabidi where's what does he need it for?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_04: Is he gonna go and learn somewhere else?
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_04: I can't imagine he needs more performance.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_04: I think it's all about making the it's this it just enhances Yeah, that would be cool.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_04: Land on a drone.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, the amazing thing about this is the price.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_04: So how much is a I mean a carbon cub is quite 300,000 plus, isn't it?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's I I I did see one recently which was fully tricked out, and that was north of four hundred thousand dollars.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_04: Um so how much do you think a performance enhancement to your carbon cub costs?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_04: It's gonna be ten aviation units, so ten thousand dollars.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'd have said I'd have said probably add another five thousand to that.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_04: You would all be wrong, because it is the bargain price of one thousand five hundred dollars.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_04: Really?
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_04: I know.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_04: I I almost want to say that that would is you go, is that a misprint?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_04: But so so it's it's amazing value.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_03: I wonder how you I wonder how you upgrade it whether you must just stick a USB stick in somewhere.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: I guess you map something around.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_04: I yeah, I it's clever, clever things go on with electrons and binary code and all sorts, I'm sure.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um anyway, so I d I I'm intrigued enough about that.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_04: I'm I'm we must go and see Cubcrafters at Oshkosh and go tell me more about this.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: Tell me more about this.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Go for a flight with Luke.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yes.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: Land on a hotel iPad.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: Uh okay, my story next.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_03: This is a kind of an airfield story, kind of a real estate.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: It kind of blends the airfield and the and the airfield for sale kind of story.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: This is the centrifuge that's available to for sale now.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's only 115 metres from Farnborough Airport.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: Guess it depends what you're into.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: This was constructed in 1954.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: It is currently grade two listed with a star.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_04: Um this is I need a pretty special piece of heritage, really, isn't it?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_03: This it is.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: It is.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: It's got basically a kind of uh six I think it's like a 62-foot centrifuge in it.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_03: This is where they put fighter pilots in and spun them around and took up to nine.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: Apparently it goes up to 30 G.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think you want to expose a human to that, though.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: Could you know as there's got to be a film somewhere of that, oh my god, come on, turn it off, the machine's taken control.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_04: But um there is I mean there is lots of video online of people in centrifuges falling asleep.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I know.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think that's I mean, and that's the problem, isn't it?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: If you buy it, what do you do with it?
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: Because you can't go like there's it looks like a great bit of real estate right by there, someone will come in, I know, knock it down, flog all the concrete concrete for hardcore, build a few rabbit hutch houses.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_03: You can't flog them off, make a fortune, bish bash bosh.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_04: You can't knock it down, and I'm guessing that star listing probably means you can't even take out the centrifuge.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think you can.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_04: So if you're going to convert it into a house, that would be an interesting talking point within the house.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_04: I think you should I think you should convert it into a children's nursery.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_04: I don't like where you're going with this.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_03: Then what they don't want to sleep, you stack three or four kids.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_03: Is it like the centrifuge?
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_04: Is it like rocking it's like rocking a kid to sleep?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_04: Not so much.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_03: But it's it's like sending it.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: There's another three.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_04: If you're watching this and have any any connection with taking care of children, please don't take child care advice from me in secrets.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: No, don't do that.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: A couple more bits of data.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: During its life, it managed 122,133 operational runs.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: Which is pretty impressive, wasn't it?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: Um its final operation was in 2019.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if anyone's actually turned it on since then or whether there's bits gone missing or something.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_04: If you buy it and you go, hey, I've I've got my own personal centrifuge.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, yeah, that's yeah, what would you do with it?
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_04: That's the question.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: You'd have a lot of fun just telling people that you had a centrifuge.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_03: Well, Ed, if you have 750,000 pounds, which I don't, you can um buy your own.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_03: You can tell those people you got your own centrifuge.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_04: Which I to be fair, I'm guessing it would cost a lot more than that to build a centrifuge.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I reckon what someone should do is they should basically refurb it.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, yeah, grease the bearings or whatever, make sure it all still works, operate it as a centrifuge, and then rent it out to all of the sort of space as astronaut training and that kind of thing.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_04: That's an interesting idea.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Or subcontract it out to the RF because they've probably privatized it alongside pasty delivery or something.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_04: But interesting, I'm interesting building.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_04: That's going to be a challenge.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm usually there people buy stuff like that and they'll either preserve it or they'll come up with some really clever way to make use of it.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be on grand designs in a couple of years.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_03: As you can see from the picture, it's kind of surrounded with houses and stuff like that.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: So it's kind of like a little suburban street.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_03: Can you imagine everyone's there at whatever time of night it is, sitting down there with a cup of tea, ready to watch the bubble box or East Enders or whatever it's people watch.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: Then all of a sudden the lights go dim.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_04: Someone goes That's Bill at number 19 going up to 9G.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_04: I I can't imagine there's many more unique things like that than uh that's on right move right now.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: I mean seven no seven hundred and fifty grand.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: I don't have it either.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: If I did have it, I wouldn't be buying centrifuge, but it's cheap for a property in uh farm burrows.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: It is.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: Dave, you're a bit of a property developer, aren't you?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: Well A serial property.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: Good news, Mrs.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Dave.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: I've got something really exciting.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's a bit of a project.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: Fix her up, huh?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be like I wonder if there's room around the edge for s sort of seats and it could be the world's fastest lazy Susan or something.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Lazy Susan?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: What's a lazy Susan?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's that thing you have on on the table in restaurants where you kind of move it around.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Or a really expensive salad spinner.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: Well, there you go.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: So if you buy it, let us know.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: We'll come take a look.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_03: That'll be fun.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_03: Right, time for some club news.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: Dave, that's gotta be you.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: June landing fees are available now because it's because it's June.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Funny that.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Funny that, yep.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: So the there are they are for Easter Airfield, Kingsmure Airfield, Eshot Airfield, and Yatesbury.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: On Yatesbury, there's a little condition, not on the twenty-fourth or the twenty-eighth of June.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because they've got events going on.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Apparently you save a total of thirty-five pounds, which brings the total savings for the first half of twenty twenty-six to three hundred and ten pounds.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_04: At least one club member contacted me and said, I'm going to try and do all those landing fees this year.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_04: month.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Excellent.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to go and take a look at Yatesbury and have a chat with them and see if I'm going to be able to do it.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_04: Some friends of mine went there recently and said they were super friendly.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_04: Couldn't have been couldn't have been lovelier.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: Brilliant.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: Brilliant.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_03: And now if you go if you use one of our landing fees, do us a favour, see if you can take a few pictures, maybe even a bit of video be better, and then send it into us.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see if we can feature it.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: That would be jolly lovely.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: Love to hear your landing feet don't forget, if you are a member of the club, there are lots and lots of benefits.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_03: The main benefit is you get full access to all of the content we produce on the website.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: You get access to the content we produce on webinars plus the landing fees.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: There's some great threads going on at the moment.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: There's a great thread at the moment which is kind of following John Hunt the flying reporter in his he's flying to Washkos he's last last heard of he was he made it to the US of course with that tricky bits of water and forest and stuff like that.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's Flyer Club member John Flyer Club member and he yeah he posted he posted on the Thorum thread didn't he?
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_03: He did and he's doing a good job of raising money for arability at the same time so what's what what's better than that?
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_03: There's also a great thread on there which is kind of like it's dominated by a couple of people whose name I won't mention because I they might not like it.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_03: But it's it's really good food it's basically food reviews of of restaurants.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_03: What just general restaurants or restaurants with airfields restaurants at airfield or places that are next to airfields effectively yeah.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: So and that's a really good place.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good little thread.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: It is a huge thread now it's a huge thread yeah so if you want to find out and you want to get access to that and participate become a member.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: I wonder how do you become a member member member how do you become a member Eddie you say the word member member you go to flyer.co.uk forward slash membership.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_04: And how much does it cost?
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_04: It is not it is it's nearly as much of a bargain as a Carbon Cub UL upgrade but it's only sixty two pounds a year.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely or six pounds a month.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_03: Six pounds a month why wouldn't you join webinars?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry just need to remind you we had a great webinar which you hosted from Pete Stratton from the BPA all about gliding and stuff.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah gliding and understanding you know the challenges that glider pilots face and how you can how you can best work a you know work with gliders in airspace.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely good does that mean that BG are going to encourage all the gliding sites to open up their sites to German aviation do you think?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I don't know that wasn't touched on come on Pete come on you can do it it's an airfield.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_03: Right moving on then in that case a little while ago we were talking about replicas.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: We covered the quadron replica the uh last week um there was the plastic spitfire in the news where they're hoping to build a whole load of those um so we got talking about replicas and wondering uh do they do they all mimic the the original flying qualities are they modern engines?
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_03: There are all sorts of variables and stuff like that.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: They certainly are I thought the best way to find out was to have a look and see if we could find a replica each in the classifier and it's fair to say that the the range of replicas you get a lot of you they are out there and you can have things that are full scale and quite often they end up being a proportion of of a size as well.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_04: And like you say quite a lot of them now use engines that we are familiar with so you don't necessarily have to use some unobtanium engine or something that for which there's no parts or is easy to or is difficult to look after quite a lot of the modern replicas use like OMI Continental or other easy to use engines.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_04: So um and excitingly if you fancy building one you there's a whole bunch of different replicas you can build in the UK under the Light Aircraft Association.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_04: Do you want to know what those are?
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_04: Yes so if you fancy a Fokker D8 you can do one of those you might have come across the Isaacs Fury really pretty biplane a much smaller version of an I of a Hawker Fury but that's apparently a lovely little airplane.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_04: Isaacs as well also make the Spitfire very teeny but very pretty there is a French aircraft called the Yerkanatsum which is a small scale P51 replica.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_04: Doesn't sound very French the Yerk and Natsum but it is must uh ms uh Monsieur Martial Yerker as an anagram of Mustang yes there's a a company called Replica Plans make an SE5A there's lots of those around if you've ever seen the Great War display team fly uh there's lots of those SE5s taking part in that.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_04: So that's a good thing.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_04: If you buy a replica you could find yourself in a display team.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_04: By accident by no maybe not by accident.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_04: There's the Sleptev Storch uh which is a um three quarter scale Storch repli replica that's quite funky that um there's the Supermarine Mark 26 and Mark 26 B Spitfires um I would there's one's power powered by a big jabroo one's powered by various automotive engine conversions.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_04: I'd say the big one is ver is looks a bit better than the little one but um those are kits.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_04: There's the Titan T 51 Mustang which is a little Mustang made out of metal.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_04: Is that okay and is that an LAA one?
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_04: That's an LAA one yeah Titan T 51 um and also if you go back into the hit the histories of time back into the 1970s there was a company called WAR which was um yeah uh which I can't remember what they were called but they were called war.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_04: But they made um tiny fighter replicas um it basically a wooden airframe and you changed the shape depending on the formas and how you sculpted the foam and war came up with uh they were I probably their most famous creation was an FW190 replica.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_04: But in the UK we've also had um someone made a P47 tiny P47 Thunderbolt and there's also been a Seafury.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_03: So um if it was me sculpting that phone they go what are you making?
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't yet discovered it kind of depends what it looks most like when I've finished yes it's a surfboard.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah and but also wasn't I seem to remember there was was wasn't the first SSDR kit or something an Eindecker?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_04: Really early on yeah there was um was it grassroots iron or something yeah there was an UK agent grass grassroots grassroots.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah grassroots anyway yeah uh G SAL they had uh an Eindecker replica that fell easily into the SSDR category and there was I think there were two or three of those.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: Did you have like little mountain bike disc brakes as weeks and stuff like that.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_04: All been very very lightweight but I know at least one person who flew one of those owned one the famous Paul Kiddell and he said it was a hoot.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_04: Really?
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow yeah um so yeah so there are those and actually if you look at um the manufacturer of those kits that if you go on their website they've got a whole host of SSDR replicary types.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_03: I have to say looking around and trying to decide which replica I wanted I discovered a whole load of kit companies in the US that are putting together plants and kits for repli replicas.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_03: It's a burgeoning and booming industry that I hadn't quite booming might be a bit of anything it makes you wonder where the market is for this.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_04: But there are I as as range of kit goes you've got uh some stuff that is just kind of outwardly you go okay from 15 feet that looks like a so-and-so but then there's other kit companies making like making kit sets of parts that are pretty much as the original made it.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_03: I mean you could argue that some of the uh ultralight people are making they're not calling them replicas they're not calling but you look at it you go that's a Cessna 182 or Cessna 172 there.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_04: It's kind of like a re soon you'll be able to buy a replica Cessna maybe maybe right so um so but in the classifieds what did you find?
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: You're looking at me?
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay I was really looking for a replica news editor I I I was really looking at for a a Newport 17 because uh World War I ace Albert Ball that was his favourite airplane apparently and he was a you know he he particularly liked that particular aircraft because it enabled him to get into his favourite firing position which was underneath yeah in other words there's no guns underneath but you can go and go and get them.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't find a Newport 17 but I did find a Newport 11 uh which is um also known as the baby baby in in France the French uh airplane um which that's you know it's not an unusual name it was a very important aircraft during World War I it kind of helped establish the uh allies air supremacy supremacy during uh from 1916 onwards so it's big important aircraft the one I found um is in New Zealand and the New Zealand builders actually went to Le Bourget Aviation Museum to study the real a real one to make it yeah to to make sure it looks as good as possible then they went and built it in a slightly different way so it's built with steel tube still fabric but uh it's built with steel tube that is very pretty looking it is very pretty looking it do it does yeah yeah yeah it's fitted with 110 horsepower Rotec R2800 2800 radial engine um that gives as I said 110 horsepower so yeah not a bad amount of horsepower and modern modern engine so you don't have to care for a rotary engine and according to its current owners it uh offers delightful handing and docile manners all the way to the ground it's currently located in Blenhe on uh New Zealand's South Island on sale with classic aircraft sales for$110,000 which is about 5000 quid that's not bad that's not outrageous I mean you know a bit of VAT to pay and a bit of transport to pay you're not going to fly it back are you?
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_04: Ferry pilot wanted there'll be a whole bunch of people go oh do it I'll do it yeah yeah but the look at the pictures make make the area look absolutely stunning I'd rather keep I think I'd keep it there and just f fly out everyone's safe keeping it out there because the challenge with importing some things built overseas and bringing them back here is you'd have to make sure it was approved.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah so um Ian what did you find?
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_03: Well I I copied Dave with the use of the word baby instead of bibby.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_03: This one was called the this is the Airdrome Sopwith Baby.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: Airdrome's a company in Michigan basically that makes a whole bunch of replica stuff which is it's a one-to-one scale um Sopwith Baby which is which was a a single seat aircraft whose job was basically to try and go and shoot down Zeppelins before they made it too far.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just kind of what a strange world where everything happens where I mean you can still die.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_03: So you know it's all very serious but it just but it feels a little bit quick chase chase that zeppelin I am this particular this particular airplane's in Serbia Montenegro at the moment it's uh powered by a Werner engine which is kind of a modern radio nice modern radio.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um slightly strangely the original had one seat the kit offered by the company manufacturer has one seat this one somehow along the line has gained a second seat of seat side by side as well so it's kind of like not quite sure lots of lots of positive things said about it in the ad about how it handles really nicely and it's very safe and it's a pleasure to fly and everything else but I mean you're not gonna say anything else in the ad I'm sure I'm sure it's true.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: And that'll just cost you 9000 euros Okay.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_04: It does look immaculate I have to say it does look very smart very smart and good engine.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah older and a bit of basic avionics or what do you need Sky Demon strapped to your leg and all that exactly yeah very good I wonder if Zeppelins had electronic conspicucity I can find one over there.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_04: That's it yeah surprisingly there were no there were no replica Zeppelins in the um in the in the in the classified ads.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_04: So I I went for um I so my choice makes this a full house for uh World War I airplanes um and I guess that's because they are the cool things to make replicas of aren't they?
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_04: But um and I found a faithfully built factory ac factory accurate reproduction of a Sopwith pup.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_04: Again for sale same people as your Newport with classic aircraft sales.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_04: And basically this was built by uh the ad says built by one of the most highly regarded World War I aircraft rebuilders in the USA and powered by a an original Lerone rotary.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_04: Whoa so um which is I mean that that's that's that's well we talked about unobtanium they are pretty hard to get hold of uh so 80 horsepower put that somewhere safe sell that to Kermit yes he's got loads he's got loads of Lerones apparently that's why they're so bloody rare exactly yeah um but this is just I mean you look at the photos of it and it is just it looks absolutely stunning and there's a there's a bit of video as well and I think we can all agree that's pretty fantastic.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_04: 97 knots apparently maximum speed.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_04: Um amazingly they quote a range 293 miles.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_04: I can't imagine anyone really flying cross country in that it is I know yeah um but uh the price on this because this is engine and super factory accurate you know to the drawings 400,000 Australian dollars um which is uh around about 250,000 pounds here with some VA.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah that's a chunky that's a chunk.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_03: But but beautiful it is a beautiful air report oh yeah yeah I did because when I was looking I kind of considered something a little bit more modern um like and I there's there was we saw one in the UK or we saw a part built one in the UK of a Tacano replica.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah a while ago.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah never quite got approved quite sure what happened they never quite got approved but there are in in the US where it's a different system there was a a one for sale and I I looked at it and I thought long and hard and I thought you know what there's something about it that just doesn't look right.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_04: And they're yeah and you've got uh and you go into the World War II stuff and there's and you can get uh we talked about it a couple of weeks ago but the Thunder Mustang you know when Dan Denny of Kit Fox Fame went I'll make a Mustang replica carbon fibre and you can still find those for sale so um though you might have a challenge bringing one to the UK.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah but it doesn't have to be the UK does it you can keep it in the wherever you like exactly yeah keep it wherever you I mean I have to say I didn't finish my trawl through the classified thinking I really want to own a replica or something or other to be honest.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: It would be nice a nice I think I'd put the money in a into a steerman or something instead.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah I can see I could see owning this um your newport yeah I I I think and I like I like my SOP for its authenticity but I think your new port looks like the most fun out of all the three um in terms of looks authentic has practical modern engine and stuff so it just can't really be the only aircraft you own that that's where you you know if you're in a fortunate position you can have more than one aircraft then you look into a replica is a way to go.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah if not then maybe get the silk get the silk scarf put on the goggles go get a pipe grow a moustache and you'll be fine okay so it's time for what caught your eye Dave Right well I'm back in New Zealand having uh having fallen in love with the place of seeing the pictures of of of of the Newport um this is an an egg an ag plane an agricultural plane it's a company called Patchet Ag Air of Marlboro New Zealand they're a crop spraying company they operate uh four aircraft altogether two Gypsero GA200s which they call the fat man but two beavers which apparently are excellent for lime spreading and also for training and they they had this little video up on s on social media oh wow this is their new pilot Wayne is let's wait till you hear his name Wayne Tantrum I'm not joking Wayne Tantrum and here he is he's just he's just passed air uh their training and this he's out on the beaver obviously landing on a one of the spots around Marlboro he's pretty handy with that beaver isn't he he's very good yeah very good um I don't I've that's and that's definitely a one way in one way out one way out and you've got to keep the power on obviously all the way up to to the flatbed at the top I love you know when you watch people who can clearly have a who can clearly fly and they do something like that and do it well yeah I think that's just magic to watch yeah yeah absolutely yeah absolutely very good find that Ian what did you find?
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well mine is is is thanks to Facebook um and someone posting something just south of uh Dijon maybe 50 Ks south of Dijon there's a place called Chateau de Sauvigny Le Bon and it's a bloody bloody lovely looking chateau.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yes it is they make wine yes fantastic yes they've got a little restaurant fantastic they've also got a collection of museums there they appear to more than one museum not only a museum that collects things but a collection of museums that collect things and one of the museums you know they got stuff like fire engines and racing cars and motorbikes and models and stuff like that.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_03: But this guy also collects basically fighter jets does he have many of them he's got about a hundred I know it's just completely mass a lot.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_04: So I Jeremy Clarkson famously had one lightning in his car that's probably not there anymore is it?
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_03: No so yeah and Transo used to have a Jaguar parked outside at some point.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yes many many years ago and it may still be there who knows my word what a place I know and you can see in in there that that I think that's like one of the world's largest collection of of models in the middle and they've got a whole bunch of motorbikes but I don't know if you can see in the background there's like a little poodiciale a flying flea thing just behind the sort of hang glider thing.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: So it just seems like a fascinating place to go.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_03: Entry into the whole thing is only like 14 euros that's gonna like I mean you've got a whole day walking around that whole thing 14 euros you've got a restaurant you've got wine you can have wine tastings you can buy wine bottled on the premises they've got their own vineyards and stuff all that needs is a strip all it needs to be to fly into yeah yeah yeah that's it so that's I thought that next time I'm in that area what a place I'd I'd heard about such a thing but um that is amazing.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah I know I mean can you imagine the conversation I know let's open some museums well not just one no let's open I reckon a hundred aircraft I don't know cold war era to let's get them in do you think he's been collecting all his life?
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_03: I would imagine so yeah I would imagine so I mean I've looked around some of the pictures and he doesn't look like a he's probably what I would call an organized hoarder.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah that's that that all looks very tidy doesn't it's kind of like I reckon that's got to be the amongst the best 14 euros worth of fun you could have I I don't think there's better value than that.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_04: Probably only a flyer club membership only a flyer club membership yeah yes there you go very good very good uh and that just leaves me it does and what your eye is perhaps you've wondered how can I deliver beer to friends who are way out in the wilderness far from roads or delivery I I haven't got any friends let alone in the wilder in the wilderness.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_04: Well the answer is if you ever wondered is to precision drop a keg uh into a river so the keg survives the fall check this out but then you've got to go swim out and get it have you?
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_04: I yeah yes I clearly that uh clearly that was gonna happen but uh yes Cessna 180 um so this is a guy called uh it's a chap on Instagram called Essex Prescott and he showed some real precision here doing exactly this with the help of a friend releases a keg out of his Cessna 180 into um a river in northern Idaho.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_04: So it's not just beer that it turns out that they they drop with the 180 as Essex and his mates uh chase extreme ski lines in the Idaho wilderness.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_04: Um and lots of the kit used to do that.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_04: They drop out um and to be honest I mean some of the skiing that they do makes the flying bit look easy.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_04: So um any of a sort of dumb busters thing about it, hasn't it really pop over the ridge and it's like down and alignment.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_04: And it's like fair play.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_04: You know that's that's I n I'm not sure I've ever seen ever used the words precision and keg drop.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_03: I mean if you if you're really desperate for a bit how I wonder how long you have to wait because you couldn't you wouldn't want to go and open it straight below.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_04: No and it's that one of them does remark it's like it's a bit frothy.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_04: So anyway check it check it out on the the Potato Boys YouTube channel um that's the the full video of their extreme skiing is on there and I think the reel for the um the keg drop is on there too.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_03: So if you went over do you think they'd do a sprite drop for you.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_04: That would definitely get frothy.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_03: So um yeah fantastic yeah fantastic um events.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Events well depending on how the weather's going to go um it's either a very busy weekend or not.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: Scotch wettier wetti or wettier weekend um one thing it is on uh because it's in France is uh if you're passing by Lyon then there's the front air expo on from today Thursday right to through to Saturday on Saturday 6th of June um again just check the weather we do know already that uh the LAA summer flying at Tur Weston which is due to be on Saturday that's been postponed because of the weather yeah there's also uh a 1940s flying at Leicester a D-Day flying day at Duxford a military wings and wheels at Bodmin um a book bucken flying and barbecue at longside uh they say if it's a weather backup on the Sunday that may not be enough um a vintage aircraft club flying at Breton on Saturday and Sunday 6th and 7th Shobden Airfest and a D-Day Warbird weekend at Compton Abbas.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: Sunday the 7th the Kirkbride flying and a sling flying at Propham.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_01: And just looking ahead because you need to book these Slate on the 12th to the 13th of June there's Get Into Aeros.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_04: Which is the British Aerobatic Association's introductory weekend well I think it's free isn't it?
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's it's free to go along.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's it yeah but if you want a flight you have to pay for flight yeah but you do need to book it yeah and also there's a summer flight at Stone's Great War Aerodrome on the 14th of June that normally gets booked up fairly quickly so and that at Stow Mary's is the place to go to find World War I replicas in the UK.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_04: Yes I don't think um probably that tied with Shuttleworth I would imagine for unique collection of fabric and wood.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_03: Well talk talking of using you started off with the uh France Air Expo in Lyon yeah um and you said it was get it was going on at the moment um I have to say having been in France very recently looking at their w weather forecast I think they're due quite a lot of uh rain and storms as well right so if you're planning on heading out there clearly take a look at the weather first yeah obviously cool is that it's a brilliant thank you very much everyone for watching thank you very much team and don't forget if you're not a member of the Flyer Club then you should be flyer.ped at uk forward slash membership just six pounds a month 62 pounds a year if you don't want to do that for any reason and I mean there are some people questionable sanity um but just a favour give this uh video a like and follow us on YouTube.
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