… lagged a long way behind America in adopting the nosewheel undercarriage as standard. I think it was a bit of a stick in the mud attitude along the lines of “we’ve always done it this way so why change now?”

Agree.

I think it was down to individual companies and how they progressed into the jet age. When Supermarine built the Spiteful with its laminar flow wing, they stuck with it and simply designed a jet carrying fuselage to bolt on it.
This did not go unnoticed and Min of AP ordered ‘3 jet machines of the Spiteful type’
Later, the first Swift flew as a taildragger (type 510) but the second aeroplane was built as a trike.

Was the Albermarle our first tricycle U/C monoplane bomber?

Baz

Which is ironic, when you consider that Kelly McGillis actually does…!

Was that before or after Tom Cruise??

I like it.

I like the idea.

Er…is it finished or are they going to put hands on it? and for good measure they could bury an old beat up (yellow)Fairchild Argus with a big spring and use it as a Cookoo.:)

..did I say I liked it?

Baz

‘Down to a sunless sea’ read it twice on the trot in my cold war bunker back in 79, last fiction book I ever read.:eek:

and….

Imagine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB4dbdNSXY&feature=related

watch the end when he tries to make Yoko laugh……….

He penned ‘Woman’………

……….a beautiful song.:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLfDnShEn0&NR=1

he really loved Yoko