there was a Walter Mitty type at Cosford airshow a few years ago collecting for the para`s. he had a collection box and looked the part with his veterens silver hair and smart para uniform. up until the point that two long serving members of the regiment asked where he served etc. the answers didnt add up and he was swiftly taken away by some bobbies. it all kicked off in front of my trade stand….

i came across another of the type during my aviation artist career. a guy at a flying club claiming to have been on the raid that sunk the Tirpitz with 9 sqn. he was evasive to my questions of which Lancaster he was in and crew members etc.when i checked his quite distictive name against the crew lists for that raid and others, low n behold there was no mention of him. i think that he realized he had been found out as he never showed up at the club again..

they`re out here

i remember watching a program 3 or 4 years ago where they built the glider as close to the design as poss “and flew it”. i think it was covered in blue/white checkered tablecloth cloth.

im going in this week ha haaaar. going to visit relatives in Austria by car and plan to stop at the museum on the way back through..hoooorah

Seems a bit sensible to me 🙂 Surely they (goverment) would rather pay somebody to destroy them, than sell them to make some money back 🙂

ha ha true. you can tell i dont work for the goverment lol. although i did spend 3 years at Lyneham as a painter and finisher and spent my days (working permanant nights) in the haunted C2 hanger. i`ll post some pics soon but only of the hercules and not any ghosts lol

Are they being scrapped?

nah! they wont be scrapped, they will take all the good bits off the old aircraft and keep them, then put all the bads bits together from other aircraft so that they can fly. then they will sell them on to some 3rd world country. probably!!!!

both heading south. the Falke? i saw yesterday was actualy gliding and all i could hear was the wind through the wires (????)..
the Tiger was tootling along nicely today, shortly followed by a Puma helicopter going in the same direction over north shropshire.

who says big cats dont exist lol..

the puma im going to post elsewhere coz there was something odd flying with it..

i have the A5 going past a few miles and i have a good view of both road and air traffic. most of the civvi and military stuff goes the way the traffic goes, ie driving on the left. the american military stuff goes where it likes lol