Are there any celebrity spotters?
Wow, Del Boy and Doyle, what a title for a new show!
If you want 'ordinary' spotters, get yourself down to the park at the end of Myrtle Avenue any weekend when they are landing on 27L, they are there in abundance.....some of them are even quite knowledgable.
If you want 'ordinary' spotters, get yourself down to the park at the end of Myrtle Avenue any weekend when they are landing on 27L, they are there in abundance.....some of them are even quite knowledgable.
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I can see an idea developing for the ITV drama dept...
Two long-in-the-tooth detectives, one a hard-nosed 'do-it-my-own way' type character, and the other a 'by-the-book' quiet but clever problem solver... who both just happen to spend all their spare time at the aviation viewing park at MAN, radio and binoculars in hand.
Two long-in-the-tooth detectives, one a hard-nosed 'do-it-my-own way' type character, and the other a 'by-the-book' quiet but clever problem solver... who both just happen to spend all their spare time at the aviation viewing park at MAN, radio and binoculars in hand.
joke !!
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Because spotters are all branded as freaks and geeks by the public (and media) finding a celeb version is not going to be easy. Certainly there are quite a few spotters and ex-spotters in the industry, (sir) Mike Bishop for one and there are at least two fairly senior guys in the CAA who are spotters, but this would not necessarily make them a good subject for the media. Even Radio 4 has to attract an audience and lets face it the're not going to pick me for Desert Island Discs because I'm not interesting enough to the audience. 
I think DenhamPPL is trying to find someone that could make the programme more interesting to the general public rather than just spotters. Lets face it we would rip them to pieces over not knowing the difference between the aerial positions on different versions of Airbus. But the average Radio 4 listener is only interested in how much his ticket costs and does he peanuts or pretzel with his G & T. I've been a spotter since my mid-teens and my wife still can't believe I can derive any pleasure from writing aircraft numbers down. Yet she finds my database for my record collection perfectly acceptable.
Good luck with the programme, just try not to make us look like idiots, we can do that ourselves.
I think DenhamPPL is trying to find someone that could make the programme more interesting to the general public rather than just spotters. Lets face it we would rip them to pieces over not knowing the difference between the aerial positions on different versions of Airbus. But the average Radio 4 listener is only interested in how much his ticket costs and does he peanuts or pretzel with his G & T. I've been a spotter since my mid-teens and my wife still can't believe I can derive any pleasure from writing aircraft numbers down. Yet she finds my database for my record collection perfectly acceptable.
Good luck with the programme, just try not to make us look like idiots, we can do that ourselves.
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It is interesting to note that when the Czeck composer and conductor, Antonin Dvorak, lived in New York at then end of the 19th century he used to send some of his music students to Grand Central Station to note the serials of the arriving trains as he was very much a train spotter/enthusiast.
Now, James, report back to me at once if 0001 is on the platform and I will shoot down there at once!
No wonder the New World Symphony sounds so good - Dvorak must have had rich pickings in Grand Central!
Now, James, report back to me at once if 0001 is on the platform and I will shoot down there at once!
No wonder the New World Symphony sounds so good - Dvorak must have had rich pickings in Grand Central!
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Pretty sure Tony "24 hour party people," Wilson, has an interest. Nice guy by all accounts to.
I've been known to spend a bit of time watching the planes, but I'm just a legend in my own mind.
I've been known to spend a bit of time watching the planes, but I'm just a legend in my own mind.
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Note BIGT's comments about Gary Numan being a flyer.
I live close to Blackbushe, and there is an "Urban legend" that he landed a Harvard on the A30?
All facts could be incorrect, just thought I would add my peice....
I live close to Blackbushe, and there is an "Urban legend" that he landed a Harvard on the A30?
All facts could be incorrect, just thought I would add my peice....
