Wings Over Britain

[Mustang51]

Dave, See you at Duxford....confirmed ! Woo Hoo ! Cheers

[nixon]

Errol. Thank you for the detail. I am currently organizing the items. ( many photos etc) How does one link a picture to these messages?

[Dave Homewood]

Hi Nixon, you need to have a separate photo server. The best to use these days is Flickr which is free. Details here:

rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/27214/post-photos-forum-using-flickr

[Dave Homewood]

It is with a very heavy heart that I have to announce the inevitable news that due to the Covid 19 Coronavirus pandemic, my "Wings Over Britain" tour and series will no longer be happening in June and July 2020 as I'd planned. I am absolutely gutted, I have looked forward to this amazing opportunity for so long and I had so many plans in place. But there is just no way that the trip and the resulting series can happen now.

It looks like New Zealand is going to be in lockdown for several months. And of course events I had planned to attend have either cancelled or will cancel any day now; museums and other places I planned to visit are now closed for the duration; and the people I hoped to visit and interview are in lockdown isolation. And another huge factor is the New Zealand economy has tanked big-time, and therefore the currency exchange rate is now bloody awful against the US Pound and US Dollar, so that is the final nail in the coffin even if I could have gone as the trip would be unaffordable.

The plan is now to postpone the trip for a year till mid-2021, and I just hope that by then this global disaster will be well and truly over and international travel is again something we can do freely. My special thanks to Melanie Salisbury of Planes Trains & Autos - Aviation Tours NZ who has been helping me every step of the way to understand the situation with flights, etc. Mel is going to help me re-book for next year and I really appreciate her amazing support at this time. Thanks to all the other people who were onboard to make WOB 2020 a success - I hope we can actually make it happen, same time, next year.

Stay safe everyone!