Ermmmmm…Royal Air Force 1918

I have done a fair bit of photography of wind farms in Scotland and can confirm that the hills they are sited on often do have wind effects best avoided at low levels.Yesterday we were still descending at full power over one, but we still had 2000 feet in hand when we left the area.

At least they are far more visible than the electricity pylons which can already be 300 feet agl.

Feature length colour episode of the Saint shown recently, some very clear views of Autair As 57 Ambassador at Luton as well as the more common Britts.

I do not understand your concern Peter,pics of crashed aircraft have been published and sold for many years, a lot of old postcards show crashed planes and pics of Zeppelins going down in flames as well.

The disposal of the U boat in Liverpool highlights a major problem with preservation and recovery. When the U boat was raised it was very very difficult to find anywhere interested in putting it on display. Sure we who read this forum are keen on historical obects, but we are in the minority.

The aviation example I can think of is what happened to the Sunderland recovered by Peter Thomas and displayed at Pembroke Dock outside. Hardly any local support and eventually moved to Hendon.It is a surprise to read of a planned recovery of another Sunderland for display at Pembroke Dock.

The positive angle is that several Uk air museums which are non public funded , have managed to get large aircraft under cover such as Newark and Elvington. And others such as MAM do a great job of coping with the impact of weathering.

Its actually not a new situation, when I filmed Hunters in the 1980s flying out of Kinloss in support of the regular twice yearly fleet exercise of Scotland they were operated as part of FRADU by a civilian contractor. The pilots were civilian as well. (Including Brian Grant on his way to becoming the highest hours Hunter pilot) It is a pleasant surprise to read of HHA providing the same level of service in 2007.

It was also flown in the Patton film with patial D Day stripes over camof.

And lots of other civvys have had flights in Uk military jets at taxpayers expense and we never got to see anything, at least this way we share the visuals.