Why can’t I never look at a pic of a Hastings without thinking:

“Mmm nice wings, would make a nice start for a reconstruction project… ” 😮

OK, I’ll go and wash my mouth.

Cees

Funny, everytime I see the Hermes fuselage at Duxford I think there was a great set of new Hasting wings that were used on something else that could have been used to make a complete Hermes.

Great Photo’s Kilvy. 🙂

Morning, just read this thread and it got me thinking 😮

It is a little known fact that in this country you don’t have to have motor insurance, there is an alternative. Big companies deposit a pre-agreed sum with the Bank of England to prove they can cover insurance claims instead. I dont know if this is possible for aviation and of course it would be outside the scope of a one aircraft operation – but could a syndicate be formed by various groups? The costs might be high initially but there would be no need for yearly payments, thereby offering a saving over the long term ( unless of course anybody needs to claim ). My referances on this are at home and I’m at work so I cant check, just thought it might be worth thinking about.

It’s amazing what turns up! With reference to an earlier debate about scrapping warbirds I suppose if someone still has the skins and the canopy and front glazing then they could rebuild a cockpit section as XP757 as well? Before we know it we could go from no XP757 to two!

Yeah I’m interested! Must have missed that copy, will have to look out for it.

He doesn’t seem to have much to start with, but from small acorns…

Setter,

Advice taken, better safe than sorry eh! 🙂

Plazz

Problem is now Setter’s post gives the game away…

Perhaps we should delete all three.

P.S. Great pictures Plazz.

The Devon was XA879, which was on the dump and had its wings removed as a make shift plug on 23/9/68. There is a photo in ‘forever Farnborough’ by Peter Cooper but I am not sure of it’s exact location.

Thanks for that Rob, I wonder how much of it survives under the soil and how much they stripped out before dumping it? Unfortunatly I don’t have that book, I wonder if anyone has a photo they could post? Now were’s that shovel gone! 😀

Thanks for that Janie. My problem with my fear of flying is that I’m ok upto about 2,000 feet then as you get higher panic starts to set in. I guess it’s a fear of heights more than anything, bit like walking up a ladder – go up 2 steps and your ok, go near the top and your terrified. I figure the only way to get over it is familiarity, so I’m going to try and get up as much as possible as soon as the pennies are available.

Air Sickness – I’m to busy being scared!! 😮

I must admit that I’ve never suffered with air sickness but then I’ve never been stretched ( aero’s etc ). What does worry me is that I did 3 laps at Silverstone last year in a Caterham 7 and felt sick as a dog after that, so now I’m worried that if I do get the chance to go flying in a jet or something were you pull a bit of G I might be getting friendly with the brown bag! Any thoughts.

P.S. I’m not a pilot but I am trying to get over my fear of flying.