Many thanks for the information. My question has been answered but there is still the question why FP does not appear to proofread articles before publication. This seems to be an issue that goes right back to the early days. When they advertised for an editor a few years back, they asked what you would do to improve the magazine if selected. In my application, I said that I would ensure that everything was proof read. I did not get the job. I find it very sad that FP and other publications fail to see how important proof reading is today.

Should all be part of the Editor’s job as you say. In many good magazines you used to get a nice comment, suffixed ‘- Ed’, which would often add a personal recollection or emphasise a statement. I think you are probably wasting your time expecting an answer or any improvement from FP. But fortunately there are a number of other good titles on the newsstand!

Need to search ‘Gladiator’ here:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search

You might also try visting The National Archives (which holds a good collection of Air Publications) and also try the FAA Museum and Shuttleworth Collection.

RAF Museum would also be worth a contact: all will supply images on request. It won’t all be gratis, but you should get what you need.

Also the Gladiator Pilot’s Notes would be a good start for instrument locations/functions. The PN’s are usually available in reprint via Amazon, eBay etc.

The C-97 has been signed off for flight in the last day or two.

Europe next then? :eagerness:

awwww….so close: nummer.

Yes I keep making that mistake, sorry. RFC / AFC it is !

Ewan: see other post: it is definitely an RAF BE.2a! It may well have been flown by the RFC/AFC, but still an RAF (Royal Aircraft Factory) designed machine!

They would indeed be some early RAF stuff if they’re BE.2a: I can’t think of a surviving type which would be earlier.

More modern aircraft have been rebuilt to fly around far less!

Here’s the sole (?) remaining J8M at Chino last year (& no, its not an Me163 copy as Pete suggested).

The evidence (like the fact that it’s close to being visually the same) says otherwise…

I just washed my hands in a public lavatory – and dried them under a jet of cold air

Ken

…or was it a rocket?

:stupid: