Well there you go then, half the aviation community has owned it; no wonder it’s a bit rusty with all those sweaty hands on it!

Looks like the one I sold on ebay last year, it didn’t have a fascinating history then, so perhaps that started with my ownership!

Looks like an early avon to me.

Is the word nigger not a corruption of the word niger, pertaining to the river niger and nigeria? that has always been my understanding, obviously it was slang for black, but thus far not much more than scots, brits,chinks, japs not even as bad as frogs, or krouts; how many people in the 1940’s had even seen black people ?(hopefully thats not offensive).

To me it shows the difference between now and then ,smoking was encouraged, as was drinking (and driving), women were ornaments, and a black dog was called blackie, jet, or nigger; Gibson obviously thought a great deal of his dog, the code word was chosen as a sign of success , and nobody laughed or tittered when it was mentioned, an age of innocence in many respects.

Ok thanks; shouldn’t believe everything you read on this forum then!

The funny thing is, once the remake comes out you’ll get nerds complaining about the tiniest details and how much better the original was.

Watching it again I’m reminded how simple editing, not changing the order of events, but better editing could improve it immensely as an entertainment. You need only watch Star Wars to see how that might be so.

And leaving it factually accurate….BTW I thought that Star Wars was edited whilst watching the Dambusters

Well it wasn’t nigger or digger, it was censor!

Just my two penneth, the early seafires folded aft of rib 7, I believe the later ones folded further out ,but even at rib 7 the span is over 10ft, and would require a police (or otherwise authorised) escort every time you take it out on the road.

As I am currently building the stub wings, I have settled on the join aft of rib 6 which comes in just under 10ft, but I do know of somebody who has set the join at rib 5.