Pete TrumanI saw the Hastings when it looked very sad, then what seems only a few weeks ago, I saw it in the hangar being worked on by what seemed an army.
The paint was meticulously being removed, but it was basically a gutted shell.
To see it like this in such a short time is a miracle, why can’t the same criteria be adopted towards the York, which seems to have been sitting in the same place and state for years, I don’t mean to have a go at the people who are working on the York, but why wasn’t this finished first, they are more or less contemporaries anyway, so why does one suddenly get priority over the other, aren’t Yorks a rarer breed as well, is it something to do with ownership.
Well I shouldn’t really bother asking this as I will see it on Saturday, but is the airframe aluminium finish or has it been sprayed silver.
Pete Truman😮 Sex ,airshow AND she bought the tickets,:D all you needed was the winning lottery numbers [had it been up and running then].
We went to Fairford the day after when the 2 mig’s collided.Up to that point i thought they were the best double act i had seen for a longtime.
Snarf, Snarf.
Pete TrumanDon’t worry, with a bit of luck they will probably all dissapear into that fall out measuring shelter and get trapped.
NEVER enter one of those things, if the ladder breaks you are stuffed and they are most likely full of water, especially if the hatch has been left open.
Long Marston is also used as a storage facility for surplus trains, perhaps they’ll try and drive one of those away too.
Shame about the state of the a/c, they look very sad and forlorn.
Pete TrumanI’m sorry to hear that. Was she very disappointed?
Not with the airshow.
Pete TrumanI reckon that you are now our resident Jack Hargreaves.I’ll be looking in here every Sunday,just as I did back then 😎 .
In that case, I’ll keep you informed.
Just one thing, we do seem to have a worrying problem in the garden, HORNETS.
Last week, I was getting my bike out the bike shed, just wearing me shorts and sandals when I felt something underfoot, it was the biggest Hornet ever and was millimeters from crawling onto my barefeet. Now I will never kill anything but this beast was obviously injured so I had to finish it off, sad really as they are such a wonderful species.
Problem is, they are only wonderful when they don’t live near you.
On friday I was working on the computer when one flew into the dining room, the dogs got out as fast as possible, but I was able to encourage it to leave.
Yesterday, following the river incident, we were walking behind the garden when we were buzzed by another giant, they must obviously have a nest nearby.
If anyone has met these fearsome creatures, which have become localised due to Global Warming, they are far more benign than wasps, but nevertheless, quite terrifying in appearance.
My mate up north informed me that one stung his neighbours horse and it died as a result, so I’m not happy, the problem will obviously get worse as the summer hasn’t taken off yet so we are going to be plagued by these F-15’s of the insect world, on the other hand, they are such beautiful insects, that I wouldn’t like to see the nest destroyed, but what do you do.
Incidentally, the first Hornet I ever saw was presented to me by a neighbour about 20 years ago, I put it on the bonnet of my MG and took a picture, it was 50mm long.
Pete TrumanI reckon that you are now our resident Jack Hargreaves.I’ll be looking in here every Sunday,just as I did back then 😎 .
In that case, I’ll keep you informed.
Just one thing, we do seem to have a worrying problem in the garden, HORNETS.
Last week, I was getting my bike out the bike shed, just wearing me shorts and sandals when I felt something underfoot, it was the biggest Hornet ever and was millimeters from crawling onto my barefeet. Now I will never kill anything but this beast was obviously injured so I had to finish it off, sad really as they are such a wonderful species.
Problem is, they are only wonderful when they don’t live near you.
On friday I was working on the computer when one flew into the dining room, the dogs got out as fast as possible, but I was able to encourage it to leave.
Yesterday, following the river incident, we were walking behind the garden when we were buzzed by another giant, they must obviously have a nest nearby.
If anyone has met these fearsome creatures, which have become localised due to Global Warming, they are far more benign than wasps, but nevertheless, quite terrifying in appearance.
My mate up north informed me that one stung his neighbours horse and it died as a result, so I’m not happy, the problem will obviously get worse as the summer hasn’t taken off yet so we are going to be plagued by these F-15’s of the insect world, on the other hand, they are such beautiful insects, that I wouldn’t like to see the nest destroyed, but what do you do.
Incidentally, the first Hornet I ever saw was presented to me by a neighbour about 20 years ago, I put it on the bonnet of my MG and took a picture, it was 50mm long.
Pete TrumanI’m sure it was 93 as my ex-wife and I were going through a nasty divorce at the time, but I went along with an extremely attractive girlfriend and spent more time on the Tank Bank looking at her rather than the a/c.
She was so impressed with Legends, that she aquired tickets for RIAT 93, we went the day after the Migs collided, but nearly didn’t get there as we consumated our relationship the night before and it was sooooo hard to get up at 6:00 the next morning.
Pete TrumanThanks chaps, much appreciated, if you like I’ll update this thread through the summer.
Saw a swallow last friday, though my missus says that they are already nesting up at her stables and have been doing so for a week.
The snails have laid quite a few eggs under the plant leaves, but I found a dragonfly larvae lurking about under there and suspect that it’s eating them. Was impressed to find a caddis fly larvae crawling about, it’s covered itself in so much plant debris that it can barely walk.
Had a bit of a disaster today, I took the dogs down the river and was sniffing about for good netting spots when the spaniel decided to dive in. She panicked and couldn’t get back up the bank so I had to wade in and pull her out. After that episode, she was targetted by some obnoxious little cross bred terrier, but her pal, good old Scooby Doo, the worlds most original and perfect Jack Russell soon sorted him out, bless him.
Pete TrumanThanks chaps, much appreciated, if you like I’ll update this thread through the summer.
Saw a swallow last friday, though my missus says that they are already nesting up at her stables and have been doing so for a week.
The snails have laid quite a few eggs under the plant leaves, but I found a dragonfly larvae lurking about under there and suspect that it’s eating them. Was impressed to find a caddis fly larvae crawling about, it’s covered itself in so much plant debris that it can barely walk.
Had a bit of a disaster today, I took the dogs down the river and was sniffing about for good netting spots when the spaniel decided to dive in. She panicked and couldn’t get back up the bank so I had to wade in and pull her out. After that episode, she was targetted by some obnoxious little cross bred terrier, but her pal, good old Scooby Doo, the worlds most original and perfect Jack Russell soon sorted him out, bless him.
Pete TrumanAfter several dips in the river, some most interesting species have been introduced including a giant, black woodlouse type ceature that even the Steve Irwin enthusiast of a son wouldn’t go near.
What is intriguing is that small fish have appeared, hopefully they will develop and eat the abundance of dafnia and bloodworms.
The tadpoles continue to grow but haven’t yet developed legs, this is a very interesting cycle of life that I’m sure you all feel is totally sad.
I get a real buzz just lying in the grass and watching everything swimming about, last night we had a young frog appear, he obviously loves it in there.
One disaster, resident thrush got one of the ramshorn snails out of the pond, but fortunately I got to it in time and it’s ok.
I’ll get me coat.
Pete TrumanAfter several dips in the river, some most interesting species have been introduced including a giant, black woodlouse type ceature that even the Steve Irwin enthusiast of a son wouldn’t go near.
What is intriguing is that small fish have appeared, hopefully they will develop and eat the abundance of dafnia and bloodworms.
The tadpoles continue to grow but haven’t yet developed legs, this is a very interesting cycle of life that I’m sure you all feel is totally sad.
I get a real buzz just lying in the grass and watching everything swimming about, last night we had a young frog appear, he obviously loves it in there.
One disaster, resident thrush got one of the ramshorn snails out of the pond, but fortunately I got to it in time and it’s ok.
I’ll get me coat.
Pete TrumanThe best way to portray it would be a la ‘Das Boot’, that is over several instalments.
I quite agree, did anyone actually see Das Boot in the cinema rather than watch the series on TV, or buy the classic DVD afterwards, which seems to have been a cross between the two.
I was also interested to see in the next but one paragraph that they are making a film of Brideshead Revisited, following on from the TV series, that would be a hard act to follow, how do you cram all of that into 2 hours, I seem to remember that the first 2 hour episode was mainly involved in the taciturn Charles Ryders unintentional WW2 trip to Brideshead, can’t remember seeing any Spitfires though, probably all tied up in making A Piece of Cake.
Pete TrumanGot 2 poxy design and access statements to do.
Pete TrumanDuring WWII some Sunderlands were converted for BOAC and called Hythes but they only had the turrets removed and some benches fitted inside.
Allan
Silly thing to say, but when I bought my Airfix Sunderland kit in the 60’s, and what a big b##### it was, I built it as a BOAC example.
I presume that in those days without the internet, I got all my info from the local library. I remember fairing over the turrets with plastic wood and making the civilian registration numbers out of brown sticky tape then painting them black, my mates were quite impressed with the result, I’m sure it must be lurking in the depths of my mothers garage, I’ll look for it the next time I go up there, bet it looks horrific.
If I remember rightly they were finished in an all over grey/green camo colour.
Pete TrumanSo how many intact Sunderlands are there, NZ 1, Kermit Weekes 1 and the 3 at DX, Hendon and Southampton, any more about.
I was lucky not only to have seen the Kermit Weekes ‘Solent’, fly at Biggin Hill one year, but remember seeing service examples flying over the Solent in the mid 50’s.
Lovely pictures, shame it wasn’t saved years ago, but it has a certain charm and subsequent air of inevitability in the condition that it’s now in.
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