Donuts anyone??

MM

Only if it’s in conjunction with “Wild Bob’s Fuelling Circus” Bowser Display Team; – the preferred choice of Airshow event organisers when it’s “Harry Clampers” and the crowds are restless for airshow action. 😀

Hey, a new phrase to be trotted out endlessly:-
“Won’t it be at Legends?”
What say you BWB 😀

I saw the Corsair in 1991 tucked under the Catalina, the Strathallan Lanc on one side and the Wildcat in front. It certainly had not been repainted and was actually under about an inch of concrete dust! That lovely polished prop was looking the worse for wear as well. It was exported soon after so I’m pretty sure it never got a repaint, and never flew over here.
Great pictures Gary, I’m sure there are a few stories you could tell about trying to get your pictures of the WoGB fleet, I certainly never found it easy;) Having said that, on one occasion in 1989 Doug Arnold had the hangar open and you could take whatever pictures you wanted for an entrance price of £1!, as he sat there in his deckchair……bizzare! Did you ever get any shots of the P40 when it had been painted or the TF51?

Makes you wonder what value they place on “War prizes” that are really the property of the nation as they were “won” by forces acting on the county’s behalf. Then again this is the same museum that spent £42k of lottery money on a Zero wreck that is less intact than the one they already have at Lambeth. That was about 6 years ago and it doesn’t look like much of an investment to me and seems to be rather “insignificant” in comparison to a complete Cold war Sea Vixen in its original paintwork or a Pucara captured when we liberated one of our own outlying communities from an aggressor in 1982. I guess it’s just not PC to have items that reflect we have beaten enemy forces in the past or that we had a stand-off with the Warsaw pact for umpteen years………….:mad:

I’m sure that when (if) it’s roaring round the DX sky or sat out on the flightline at Legends no-one watching will be quite so concerned as to its exact authenticity or the tune of its licence built (Chinese copy) BMW engine. The fact of the matter is that we are possibly going to get the opportunity to see an aircraft type representation flying in the UK sky for the first time since 1946 at the latest (I can’t really count G-WULF as it was nothing but a scale replica). I’ve seen pictures of it from the owner and it certainly looks stunning and I look forward to examining it close-up in the very near future, from both an enthusiast and a professional aircraft engineer viewpoint. I’m sure it will be a different shape for everyone to point their camera’s at when they get the opportunity as well. 🙂

Sky on the ceiling, with a tasteful combination of Dark Green and Dark Earth for the walls perhaps? 😀

Hey this is pre-August 1940 so Sky hasn’t really made it onto the streets yet…….(or the ceiling) that said I’m doing the right thing and going for my own version of Eau-de-nil, that’s Sky plus eight shots of Dark green in a half-litre mix or that’s what I did on LF363 last year. Of course you being in the Roundel Police you’ll be well aware of the failings of modern BS Eau-de-nil to come up to the correct 1940 colour spec or are you? I’m having trouble marking out the roundel on the ceiling of the Kennel right now, I think Custard’s bent my trammel:D

12th December 2006 09:12

Shouldn’t you be working, Roobarb?

😀

I’m at home decorating as we speak….even we get holiday sometimes:D