Totally agree with the above – the haunted airfields type of ramble goes on forever -Bruce Barrymore Halfpenny wrote a whole series of books on on it and it all goes nowhere.
Now: Back to the Wrights 🙂 ( Actually probably not – as that ends up nowhere as well)
I know :the “fact” that the all moving tailplane was the American answer to high mach number trim changes.
Concorde was considered as a bomber. It went a little further that the drawings in that RAF year book and the talk of “rolling back the iron Curtain”. I believe that certain provisions were made on Concorde 002 ( the one now at Yeovilton) to facilitate a demo conversion should the necessity have arisen. Perhaps somebody now at Yeovilton who can get access below the main cabin floor could confirm. If so, do contact me PM for further details.
99 Sqn RAF -(Brits in the late 60’s ) did put it about that they had been earmarked to have 5 RAF Concordes – how much of this was just to p*ss off “shiny” 10 with their VC7 Mk 2’s I don’t know.
I believe Sidney Cotton flew (very early after the declaration of war) in a civil registered Lockheed over Germany to get pictures the Blenheim’s couldn’t.
Cotton was also doing these types of missions long before hostilities broke out. An Australian of course 🙂
It not an uncommon situation. I know of one incident where the remains of a cow were also accidentally included in a crash burial. Like most others on this thread my feeling it’s best to let it be.
But why funny hexagons in the first place? Some misunderstanding regarding Pointillism ( that is the limit of my art knowledge!) Certainly ,being German , there would have to have been a clever. or possibly over clever, reasoning.
Many thanks indeed contrailjj for getting the ball rolling! Apparently the printing process did weaken the fabric under some circumstances. Perhaps the real reason for differing upper and lower hexagonal schemes?
Having fairly recently hand-painted a 1/144 Zeppelin Staaken R plane ( thank you SRAM) I had to ask the question of what genius decided on this type of colour scheme in the first place.
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