Exactly right and for someone who has collected stuff like yourself you can talk the talk and walk the walk.It is very much our special little club.:diablo:
Only the insane ones need apply.Best of luck mate with whatever you achieve.:D

Oh we’re just one big happy family….

With regards to the FSM, they don’t need hangaring, or insuring, or annuals,and you can paint them whatever colour you want, without pages and pages on forums (such as this) deliberating what shade of meduim sea grey was used by 601 sqn between late ’41, and mid ’42 etc, etc; best of both worlds buy a FSM to look at, and fly spam.

Most aeroplanes (like many things in life) are a compromise, the ones that are not tend to be more efficient at their specified task, and, more aesthetically pleasing; form follows function, and then some.

Nice to see you had an uneventfull event.

Anyone see Springsteen at Glastonbury? a real icon, far from wearing a face mask he’s out there with the fans, no surgery, no drugs; and I believe there is no contractual requirement to constantly refer to him as “the boss”……

It’s worth remembering with firearms that “horses for courses” is phrase most applicable, a .38 pistol round will kill you just as certainly as a rifle at short range, which is what the weapon was designed to do; in close quarter fighting I’d rather a pistol than a rifle.

If two soldiers carrying rifles approached you and you were concealed with the element of suprise then the odds would be in your favour; you can loose off six shots with a Webley in the time it takes aim and fire a rifle twice and they don’t jam! (like an auto)

You missed out too much oil. 🙂 Usually on roller bearings though, and I’ve no idea what’s in Sally B’s engines.

I only wield spanners on my own car but I can’t imagine qualified engineers not checking the whole system thoroughly after the same failure twice, even if they didn’t after the first time.

That’s exactly what I said in response to ZRX61’s post…..

I don’t know what amazes me the most, the fact that they left the upkeep mine at Reculver, (being top secret and all) or the fact that it was found all those years later; was it in that condition or has it been restored?

When I was looking for a .38 Webley, I did see on offer, one or two that were marked “RAF”; all said and done there’s not much difference between a webley and an Enfield , as previously stated the “tankers” Enfield was spurless, but that made it double acting only,(and the heavy pull made it less accurate) both are much smaller than you would think, (almost like a toy) and would fit inside a tunic side pocket.