Saturday 30 November 2002:
One land transport page added to "Behind the scenes" featuring INT
2 - Kawasaki ZX-10.
Tuesday 26 November 2002:
Lots more images added to the "Interceptor locations" image
collection in Downloads, including Cumbria, Cotswolds, Cornwall and Norfolk.
Saturday 23 November 2002:
I've added a new image collection in Downloads featuring locations seen in
Interceptor such as the maze at Somerleyton, Pentire Farm where Clive was
ambushed, the scene of the tractor ambush in Derbyshire plus several others.
I've also added more pictures to the lairs collection including the converted
windmill at Reedham and some interior pictures of Doyden Castle.
Thursday 21 November 2002:
Another update! This time it's four brand new pages featuring Castle Air.
The last page feature three brand new interviews with Michael Malric-Smith and
Keith Thompson.
Tuesday 19 November 2002:
Updates are coming thick and fast now aren't they! :) Another three pages added
to "Air transport" this time featuring G-BHXU.
Monday 18 November 2002:
Four new pages added to "Behind the scenes". Look under "Air
transport" for pages dedicated to G-MEAN featuring some all new pictures.
Thursday 14 November 2002:
Two new pictures added to the downloads section. Both of Doyden Castle taken
during a flight in April this year aboard G-BVCJ, the "Flying
Gardener" Agusta 109 piloted by none other than Clive Harris (Cornwall
Interceptor contestant) and Michael Malric-Smith.
Saturday 9 November 2002:
I've just published another interview. Again conducted by Marcus Durham (farnboroughairshowradio.com),
this is an interview with Cornwall contestant, Clive Harris. Find it in the
audio downloads.
Friday 8 November 2002:
Brace yourselves - something new is coming......Yes I finally had enough time to
be able to add some more content to this site. First up is an interview with
Michael Malric-Smith recently conducted by Marcus Durham for the Farnborough Air
Show Radio (farnboroughairshowradio.com).
Next up is the long awaited Interceptor's Christmas message in video form. This
clip has been removed from the Cornwall episode shown by Challenge. More
interviews coming soon. Find them both in the audio and movies pages within the
Downloads section.
Wednesday 3 July 2002:
What can I say!
At around 11pm last night a large portion of the old forum was wiped out for reasons unknown. The entire members directory was deleted which is why you wouldn't have been able to login today. In addition most of the boards went however many of the messages are still intact, they are just no longer indexed and therefore won't display.
The best I've been able to do is restore the forum to the middle of April! Approximately 800 posts have been lost and over twenty users will need to reregister.
I can only apologise for this. If the recent performance of my host wasn't bad enough with frequent and extended periods of downtime it now appears that they don't have a reliable backup system.
I've taken this opportunity to upgrade the forum to an all singing all dancing version that now features a database back end. This will make it much easier for me to backup and restore the forum almost in an instant.
There are several new features, not all of which are enabled just yet but I'm sure you'll see a few new things to tinker with.
I will do my best to pick out the bits of information from the messages I managed to salvage and start to reconstruct as many threads as I can.
My apologies again to new users who will need to reregister. I hope you will take the time to join again and help to bring this forum back to life. That goes to the existing members also. I hate it when the host is playing up - I imagine people trying to login, failing and deciding not to come back. I'm really pleased with the way this forum has grown over the last year. You, the members have made it a success, I now need you to get posting and lets get back to normal.
Rest assured I will be looking at alternative hosting solutions.
Sorry once again!
If anyone has a recent copy of the old members list in their browser cache that would be a really big help. Any other cached pages too - recent threads particularly.
Thursday 27 June 2002:
Anyone at all interested in Castle Air should take a look at http://www.farnboroughairshowradio.com. This is a website to accompany the Farnborough Air Show radio station that will be transmitting during the show next month. A couple of the production team recently visited Castle Air and were treated to a tour of the facility by Michael Malric-Smith and Keith Thompson. They were later taken for a swift flight in G-BVCJ, the "Flying Gardener" Agusta 109. Look in the features section from the home page for the Castle Air pages which features many photographs from their day plus several audio clips of interviews with Michael and Keith.
Sunday 3 June 2002:
Blimey is it really five months ago since I last posted anything here? If
you really want to keep up to date with the latest Interceptor news then please
the forum on this site - http://forum.interceptors-lair.com.
A lot has happened since January. Firstly, as you probably know Interceptor continues to be a success for Challenge TV. So much so that they have now rescheduled it to a prime-time slot at 7pm on Saturdays and Sundays. There is a rumour that Sean and Annabel will be appearing on Challenge TV shortly although Sean didn't mention this when I spoke to him this week.
Sean is currently being bombarded with fan mail once again. If you would like a signed picture, please print any pictures from this site and send it to Sean via his agent (with a sae) as he has now totally run out. Sean takes the time and trouble to personally write back to all of his fans.
In February I was fortunate enough to spend the week in Doyden Castle in Cornwall. This was of course the Interceptor's lair. We had a great time there perched right up on the cliff top. It was amazing to wake first thing in the morning and literally without even having to get up you could look straight out of one of three windows on the top floor and see the pounding waves just a short drop below you.
In April, Clive Harris (Cornwall contestant) invited me down to Castle Air in Cornwall. He had spent the week there flying a Jetranger (G-ONTV) with Michael Malric-Smith in order to add a turbine rating to his license. We met on Thursday in Polperro and had a great night discussing Interceptor and Castle Air. The next day we flew pretty much the entire coast of Cornwall with a detour to the Scilly Isles where we landed at Tresco. Clive was at the controls most of the time however Michael took over a couple of times and proceed to take us very low and very fast. It seemed as though we were skimming the waves along the North Cornish coast. The journey was over almost before we knew it - we had been travelling at speeds of around 200mph! A fantastic day all thanks to Clive and his wife Jenny.
A few weeks ago I resigned from my position as an Internet developer in Derby and am currently in the process of purchasing a business in Cornwall. Cornwall seems to be my spiritual home so I thought I may as well move down there!
I'm hoping to have some extra time on my hands now, so expect to see lots of new content appearing on this site sometime soon.
Wednesday 9 January 2002:
A further eight images added to the Lairs section in image downloads.
Monday 7 January 2002:
I've updated the Castle Air collection of images adding more detail to the
existing images and provided a further eight images to the eight already
present. I've also started a new image collection containing pictures of various
Interceptor lairs.
Friday 4 January 2002:
I've just added a new "Images" section to the
"Downloads" page. It features the start of one collection of images
for now - some pictures taken at a recent tour of Castle Air. I will add more
over the coming weeks.
