T_M, you first-soloed the Tiger! Well done ! Your achievement is doubly worthy of celebration, first because they are hard b*ggers to land right, and secondly because by determinedly training on one you have kept alive an ancient tradition. Arrange one of your navexes to be Cambridge-Waltham one fine day this spring and I'll take you upside down in my Cap 10 if you're interested.
Stik: is your farm strip long enough for us to buy that tatty old Vulcan that's up for sale? If we haggle they might throw in a couple of nukes. At a mere 1000 man hours of maintenance per flying hour, it's got to be the way forward for recreational flying.