Manston History Museum is on the opposite side of the car park to the Spitfire & Hurricane one. Open every day in the Summer, well worth an hour.
mmitch.

I flew on a domestic flight from Luton to Inverness a few weeks before 9/11. The security check was the same as international ones, including emptying my pockets into a tray. By this time we had faced 30 years of terrorism. I drove into the Canary Wharf site a few weeks after the bomb attack. Two men in a small truck did that. I don’t think we need to be instructed on what a terrorist risk is. As I wrote on another thread recently the number of bags that go on the wrong flight show that security checks are still not good enough there. Then add a suicide bomber. 🙁
mmitch.

Thanks for that. I have eyed up one or two of the slide scanners but as you say, is the extra quality worth the extra expense unless you are professional.
mmitch.

I sat directly in line with the port prop on a European Dash 8 at LCY two years. After several rev ups to near max power the pilot announced that he was retuning to the terminal. I was relieved, there was a lot of vibaration. We then changed onto a BA146. My return flight I sat right at the back in a window seat, highly recommended.
mmitch.

When ‘rubbishing’ the Dams raid critics remark that they were repaired in 3 months. I have also read that Barnes Wallis and others could not get Harris to bomb the reconstruction work.
I wonder what the effect would have been if bombers were ordered to dump their bombs in the lakes instead of bringing them back from an aborted raid. The combined tidal waves would surely have at least put back if not destroyed the repairs.
mmitch.

‘Fly For Your Life’ by Larry Foster the bio of Bob Stanford Tuck. First read this in one go 40 years ago and usually read a chapter during B.O.B time each year.
‘First Light’ read this last year in two days. Both books are difficult to put down.
mmitch.

The aircraft was a tailwheel type but I can’t swear to number of engines. The nose cone was swung round and what looked to me like some type of scanner was exposed. Could it have been some sort of radio (direction finder ?) aerial ? My ‘education’ in these sort of matters came almost exclusively from ‘Eagle’ cutaways etc in those days. 🙂
I left that school in Summer 1955 so it must have been before that. Thanks for the reply.
mmitch.