That first one is the fatigue test specimen I believe. It will never fly but go into the test rig. I suppose no engines will be fitted but weights to simulate them? Its got to be done so they can find the ‘life’ of the major components.
mmitch.

😀 Did you alter the 1st one to turn it inro colour,an excellent job if so.How did you know what colour hair they had LOL 😀

Here is the link to Snappers ‘Master class’ thread.
http://forum.airforces.info/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23849#newpost

mmitch.

‘A Beaufighter with runable engines’ 🙂 🙂
mmitch.

Bob Stanford Tuck ‘Fly for your life;
mmitch

I live in North Kent about 50 miles from both Manston and Gatwick. Using main roads it is dual carriageway and motorway to both. It took me less than an hour to get to Manston yesterday. It took nearly 2 hours to fight through the jams to Gatwick one Monday morning last Summer. A rail link is promised between Manston and London mainline by 2006. Manston is like Preswick, a sorely under used facility.
mmitch.

. The only problem is, I somehow managed to set the wrong day into the thing, so it is showing desember on the shots 😮

If you got software with your camera to load your photos into your PC check all the menus. I took 60 shots at a wedding recently all with last years date but was able to re date the whole lot in one go.
mmitch.

More than a year ago I heard that the Hercules tankers that were converted by Marshall’s of Cambridge for the Falklands conflict were near the end of their flying days and would be ‘dismantled’ . I emailed the PR people at RAF Lynham, Duxford and Marshalls to suggest that a Hercules should be preserved and what better than one of the tankers. I never received any replies
mmitch.

At least it has still got wheels, not on house bricks. 🙂
mmitch.