Nice to hear from you Adrian. Don and his beloved Varsity were a great loss. It was a real pleasure to see him throw the old girl around the sky at Old Warden - he performed with much more gusto than any of the RAF demonstrations I saw and it was nice to see that the lumbering old varsity was a sprightly performer in the right hands.
It's a great shame that the aircraft was damaged at Duxford and particularly sad that it has often been almost overlooked there - especially when the beautiful MRF aircraft was shamelessly destroyed (a crime that I will always curse Duxford for). I keep my fingers crossed that I'll get a winning Lottery ticket one day and fulfil my ambition to get one of the surviving old beasts rebuilt into flying trim!