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No more planespotters...
Posted by mikethep on 24 March 2011 - 9:55pm.
Since I'm guessing that at least some members of the Massive have indulged in the guilty pleasures of planespotting at some time in their lives, I thought you should know that they have been abolished. According to the brochure for the Royal International Air Tattoo, they are now called "aviologists", and seem to need the word "serious" attached...Serious aviologists will be able to enjoy "every twist and turn" for a whole six days for a mere £198. What are you waiting for?
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It's good to have a hobby
I don't see any difference between planespotters and the Dylan fanatics or Led Zep completists who frequent this forum.
So they can call themselves what they like, if they're spending their spare time doing something that interests them then good luck to them.
Wrong end of stick grasped...
...Johan, I wasn't taking a pop at planespotters - I used to be one myself, and can still rarely let a plane go by without having a squint. I was taking a pop at whatever marketing moron decided that they needed a new name.
I was an avid plane spotter
from the age of 12 until around 15. It was an obsession that veered towards crazy stunts like breaking into RAF hangars to get registration numbers, unscrewing various bits from the cockpits of planes that we could keep as souvenirs.
In certain areas of the World you could get shot for less.
The Greeks call them...
spies.