I have no more worth posting Alex. Farnborough next show . 🙂

What, you mean your not going to the biggest Airshow in the world this weekend??? How rude!! 😉

Especially with this lot!!!:dev2:

If any of you can remember the 80’s and early 90’s at the Fighter Meet, you would have tail chases of warbirds banking and weaving across the runway at heights where wing tips were mere feet off the tarmac leaving dust trails behind them. You never heard folk shout ‘urrr urrr health and safety, health and safety!!!!’ then did you???

Bring back the days of Fighter Meet and Duxford, when aircraft were stunted to thrill the crowds, not demonstrated to the point if they bank too hard the paint flicks off a bit!!

These pictures are wonderful Anna

I’m there from friday evening till Monday afternoon and looking forward to it

Trying to strip paint off an airframe to reveal its original markings is a difficult task and not one that I have managed to perform often. The only airframe I managed to do this too and not intensionally was the Air Museums F-101 Voodoo when I was working on her. We were looking to remove the countless layers of paint to produce a smooth finish and it needed drastic measures in places to get the paint off so a strong paint stripper was enforced. It removed the layers of later painting attempts and revealed the original paint scheme from when in service, of which their were two in fact. The paint they originally used during service must of been well durable cause the paint stripper did not desolve it. With regard your airframe, it depends on how many times it has been repainted which will dictate what measures you need to go too to reveal its history. Paint stripper would be easiest but you will need to brush it on really thinly and use a plastic scraper to scrape the paint off. A bucket of soapy water needs to be close to hand with a sponge so, when you find the original scheme, as soon as it appears, wash the area with the water to rid the airframe of paint stripper and stopping it taking the original colours away. Keep the paint stripper away from that area after as well for obvious reasons. I warn you now though, it is one hell of a pain staking task and an extremely messy one to, so be prepared for a long clean up after each days work.