Originally Posted by
Saint-Ex
I agree. Why risk such a valuable aircraft?
IT'S simply a marvellous marketing wheeze. I can only wish them the best of luck and hope it all runs like clockwork - their sponsors do have watches to sell after all.
Somewhat pathetically the project main website doesn't even announce they have taken off but does provides an elaborate video to promote the 'Pilot Watch' collection. Their 'top of the range' model is yours for just over 11k. I would have to buy one 'on tick' - as it were!
Apart from that, as someone else once said of a similar exercise, it's all really rather point to pointless . . .
[Where are they now, maybe 'weathered in' at Lossiemouth, the 'escort' OY-THP seems to have U-turned. Who knows, no one is tellin'!
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