Papa Lima – Must say its refreshing to have a thread with substance and interest at the moment! Top marks for your efforts!

David,

You have my vote on that one!

Regards

Eric

Hi All,

Is ‘TE184’ the aircraft that was in the possession of the ‘Ulster Folk & Transport Museum’ many years ago?

Nice pictures Wessex Fan, Thornycroft Amazons are rare beasties (I can only think of four still left), looks like yours is the long wheelbase version as well. As for the link XF382 posted, looks like the entirely blue one is the WW2 version.

If you go onto the IWM collections page http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk, go to the photographs section and type in ‘bowser’ some good (although small) photos come up of Bedford QL bowsers

The Amazon was gifted to us about a year ago, the only condition attached to the gift was that we did not use it for lifting things. Everything does work, although it helps to be Arnold Schwarzenegger when driving it!

Eric

Support Vehicles

No idea about the vehicle end of things at all, however I have attached pictures of two support vehicles, that we have under restoration!

Regards

CHILTON DW1 — Reg No G-AESZ

There is a red Chilton that is sometimes in the hangar at Old Warden, sorry i couldn`t remember the reg no on it……..Martin

Hi All,

The pictures were taken at Old Warden, the aircraft is owned by ROY NEROU.

Cheers

Eric

Coanda

Like you I have seen nothing concrete regarding a 30D replacement, although I suspect in will be spring next year. However using the old crystal ball I suspect the 5D will still be a superior piece of kit!

Eric

This is back to an argument aired at the very first meeting of the BAAC . If the MOD refuse permission on the attitude that ordnance is at the site,then they have a legal responsibility to make the site safe if it is in an area where people have to visit. They cannot have it every way.

Very true, but it’s the ‘Big Brother’ thing, the system says that the aircraft might have had ordinance on board, you must prove otherwise.

Many years ago a colleague told me of a hangar not far from my home which had been constructed on reclaimed land after World War 2, by all accounts a UXB lay undisturbed beneath it. The offending item was buried so deep, it was not regarded as a hazard!

The general rule is that ordinance will only be removed if:-

1> They know it is there.
2> In the opinion of the authorities it poses a specific and immediate risk.

Cheers

Eric

Thanks the guy also has a CANON EOS 300D same sort of price, with standard lens ?

Jamie if you really want a Canon and if finances allow go for the 350D, with it having been superseded by the 400D their should be some reasonable deals about. (The term reasonable is a bit elastic)

Like the 20D it is an 8MP camera, although the build quality is not as good, to be honest before you buy anything try to have a look at an example of your proposed purchase, see if the size and layout of the camera suits you.

See my earlier comments.

Hope the above helps.

Eric