firefly WB 440

if the aircraft was once a complete airframe whats happened to all the other components over the years and why did the Air and Space museum remove it from display? unless it was lack of space there does anyone know the real reason?,its tragic when this happens to a classic aircraft, viewing the remains its not beyond restoration even just as a nose section, but if its being reoffered obviously people arent that interested and it could end up being scrapped or just forgotten,has anyone a photo of the aircraft in one piece please 😎 😎 😎

buried aviation

in the 80s i was told about a large collection of RAF vehicles being buried in a huge pit at rufforth apparently there were humber staff cars and a few austin eights ,the pit was supposedly near to the firing butts which are situated at the end of the east west runway there,another story concerned a large collection of nose art panels from halifaxes being buried on rawcliffe airfield where most of the canadian kites ended up being scrapped .and finally there was my dads recollection of a huge quantity of lease lend tools being interred at thorpe arch ordnance factory nr wetherby just after the war ,l know of someone who found the piano from RAF Leemings officers mess buried in the dump there and a quantity of gas cylinders some of which were still charged and indeed went off 😎 😎 😎

tu i44

i well remember the dramatic crash of this aircraft at the paris airshow that was down to pilot error i believe, amazing that the us chose this aircraft over concorde bearing in mind the very basic nuts and bolts technology that the russians tend to use ,they mothballed the tu144 after paris didnt they?:cool: 😎

trident tales

my uncle owned one , a great piece of british engineering prowess ,he also owned a bonneville side car combi ,and a brough ,that was some machine he had to really stand on the stays to start it! whatever happened to the british motorcycle industry, we used to lead the world:cool: 😎