I take it you you have or intend to speak to Corgi on this matter.

Spitfire ale….lovely stuff. 10 of these and you walk like your at 10,000 feet weaving around and when you get home a curved approach is the only way to make the front door. Debrief by the missus is like running into flak though !

Best beers I have come across are from all around the country, Red McGregor, Roger & Out, Pedigree, Bishop’s Finger, Tanglefoot to name just a few.

Perhaps enough time has gone by now that the Germans could produce some Luftwaffe lagers? 😀

Some nice studies there Phil, the 2nd and last have an Akrotiri look about them. Do you know where they were actually taken?

An airframe can be kept going indefinately with the replacemant of worn parts, mainspars,etc etc. The real problem is cost. One way of increasing the life is to limit the stresses on the airframe. Personally I disagree with the idea of grounding an aircraft to preserve the ‘original’ structure when it is hidden under a fresh coat of paint anyway. Aircraft like Black 6 should have been returned to the skies!

Whether our grandchildren enjoy them in a hundred years time depends on issues other than airframe fatigue I am afraid.

It is possible to recycle the steam using condensers thus avoiding large contrails, water can also be collected from clouds via condensers – airships did this to collect ballast. Turbines would be prefered over a reciprocating engine. What would worry me is what happens to the mass of water inside the boiler in the event of a sharp manouevre? Any negative G would send the hot water out along the feed pipe and possibly result in locally overheating the boiler which could lead to fatigue failure. However, what was going on while the spies were trying to glean more info on this steam bomber ?

In truth it’s about as feasible as having engines driven by compressed air whereby the air is collected and compressed by ram air ducts in the nose.