Canberra at MAM

Great work repainting outside, however he does perhaps not realise that the top surfaces of the Canberra are visible to all the museum visitors who emerge from the covered area at the top of the steps. It makes a good wide angle photo,so his hard work will be noticed. Or have I got the wrong Canberra?

Shack N790WL in Texas the sad facts

I got an email from the CAF(or whatever you call it now) inTexas last year,they do not intend to operate the Shack and are fully aware of the fact that sadly the airframe has exceeded its life regarding the spar.
British Aerospace will not take any responsibilty for this airframe and the UK CAA were not willing to let it operate in the UK.
Only the interest of Uk defence operations enabled the Shacks to continue in RAF service past their design life.

This highlights a potential pitfall of buying some ex uk Mod airframes and expecting to fly them in the UK. Just because they were allowed to fly under the MOD rules does not mean they can fly under civil rules.(notwithstanding approved modifications)

Rothmans at Blackpool

Great memory jogger, I was a keen spotter when the team visited Blackpool,we wrote HelloManx on the sand. I still have the news clippings somewhere.

Flying a Vulcan

Many large projects to build or rebuild something attract support and also opposition.

The opposition can become very strident and on some occasions has actually helped to put off financial investment.

The Lottery support for the Vulcan has been fact driven,I would hope that negative speculation does not have an adverse effect on potential sponsors.

To get the project to its current stage has been a very understated achievement in my view. Those who read these pages are generally well informed on aviation heritage,the general public are as yet to understand the importance of our Vulcans in being part of a peace keeping force.

that review of the b of b dvd release

It is always a shame when a reviewer gets facts muddled with myth.

In this case he wrongly states that the film Heinkels were former Luftwaffe then used by the Spanish. As far as I am aware..from memory…they were actually CASA licence built with Merlins.

I do understand that he would not realise that an actual Stuka was positioned at Henlow for the film and not used, also not used were the converted Stuka look alikes from Proctors.

Big model aircraft link

Having seen a few amazing models mentioned on this thread, this site was a real eye opener to me.
http://yasairshow.co.uk/gallery.php

633 film

The film is now out on DVD, I did some screen caps but there are hiding inside the pc somewhere. spare film left over was used in Mosquito squadron.

Ok a few points from the film found when freeze framing.
para drop from B25 , this was likely the camera platform any idea which B25?

air sequences Scotland, the base was Dalcross Inverness. The valley runs were at the Larig ghru just a short distance from Aviemore(appears in the edge of one shot)

I would like to know the coast location, I suspect the cliffs are SE Sutherland.
Where three Mosquitoes fly low up the inlet the first is so low it has prop wash !