I’m so sorry to hear this – the work you did was one of the restoration highlights for me.

I can only hope that there may be some common sense prevailing, which might provide a better solution to what appears to be a monumental piece of corporate BS.

Sadly I have a bad feeling about this, but will keep everything crossed.

Another example today of lottery funding ‘drying up’ – £4.7m this time.

http://www.bristolaero.org/news/2014/11/27/bristol-aerospace-centre-takes-off-with-47-million-heritage-lottery-fund-support

Best news this year! Congrats to all involved in putting the bid together.

…or a dodgy tattoo!

:D:D:D

Nope – I’d be certain that it’s Unit Equipment Table. Similar to USAF TO&E (if I could remember what that stood for!) Table of Operations & Equipment?

I’ll believe it when I see it! There has been talk of this for the last ten years since Concorde landed for the last time at Filton.

It’s all in place: hangar location sorted, aircraft either in store or under restoration on-site and just awaiting the final funding I think. But a recent donation (mid-November) allows the first phase to start.

Sounds very much like the Antilles Airboats aircraft (VP-LVE), which was doing joy rides from Bournemouth Bay about this time. But certainly not barged anywhere.

CWGC has:
WATCHORN, CHARLES JOHN, age 32, killed 11/11/1944, rank Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ser no ‘1031796’, buried SOUTHGATE CEMETERY Sec. G. Grave 70. SON OF WILLIAM AND JESSAMINE AMELIA WATCHORN; HUSBAND OF CONSTANCE ELSIE JOYCE WATCHORN, OF BUSH HILL PARK, ENFIELD.

Should be good for a start.

Just a thought: doesn’t an FJ7-60 equate to an FJ76 (where the first number is diameter and the second is length)? I can’t see the part numbering changing too much, since it’s pretty much a universal standard to state length/grip length/threaded length and diameter in this way.

However I think that length expressed in tenths must be a modern idea: more likely in 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 or 1/64th graduations surely?