Incomplete one at Inverness Highland air museum,about 80 percent external.

Not a very active ebay trader just one sale. I wonder if this person is acting as a go between,sometimes this happens where the actual owner pays the ebayer a finders fee on completion of the sale. I doubt that any of his for sale aviation items are in Newton Stewart(unless the US left some C130s at West Freugh after the last detachment ! )

New buiding designs

Sadly in Britain we suffer from a huge attitude problem where new innovative buildings are concerned. Architects and designers work to the clients brief,balancing cost against a myriad other considerations. When the final design is chosen it must pass planning authority scrutiny. Often at this point the voting is done by councillors with no idea of artistic concepts .That is when we often loose the chance to have innovative projects. Where new styles are built they are ridiculed by a vocal minority who want Britain to be populated by square boring blocks of glass and concrete.

I celebrate all the new designs as a victory ,we already have lots of preserved old buildings,give the new a place in Britain otherwise we will become a history theme park.

Actually Propstrike having had four close calls and now knowing a hell of a lot more about aviating I would now speak up and demand to be let out!!
It was a shocking day when I realised that common sense was not common.

COGEA Spitfire and SEA FuRY target tugs

Here is a link to a site with pics and accounts of a family who had several members flying in WW2 and post War Germany . Good pics and info.
http://www.thomasgenth.de/SeafuryD/indexeng.html

V weapons plots

Sort of a QI comment…..in order to mislead the German forces who were responsible for launching the V weapons a very detailed plan of disinformation was put in place. This involved moving the reported location of where the missiles and rockets crashed. Normally censorship allowed photos of raid damage to be published with very general locations,this rule was altered to allow enough false info to be used. All axis spies landed in the UK were turned into double agents and they were also used to send false reports.
The ruse did work..actual plots of the V weapons not destroyed in the air did show that gradually a shift to the West less populated areas of the South East of England occured.

For more info seek out the excellent back issues of After the Battle mag.

Vulcan losses

I also noticed that the Vulcan on display at Gibraltar had a fairly short life, due to salt laden air. The very same problem nearly caused the total loss of the Lanc at Blackpool.

The scrapping of the Vulcan at Blackpool has served a purpose,it has once again caused debate and is making those who are thinking about preservation to make an effort to bring rarer items into actual conservation.

Also to support the big push to get the Vulcan in the air.