I believe the daredevil presenter is a former Miss Northern Ireland.

Not that Ive paid much attention to her when Ive seen her on the box. 😀

What a silly question Dave of course they wouldn’t. :rolleyes:

“It’s not UEs we should be condemning”

Im sorry Paul R but In my eyes the UE’s should also be condemed for their actions.

Gates, fences and the like are there for a reason which last time I checked was to keep unwanted people out.

I have been to Long Marston recently and would have loved to have got nearer to the aircraft but I have been raised properly so that I respect people and thier property. My picture’s were taken from the right side of the fence and didnt suffer because of it.

But then again Im sure if you arrived home from work one day and found someone had climed over your garden fence uninvited you would be ok with that and offer a warm hand shake to the so called urban explorer who was misinformed about the status of your property. Some how I thinks not.

Trouble is Dave there is only so may people that want to get of the keyboards and volunteer to do stuff. Also many volunteers also just want to play with the planes and not do the mundane day to day yet important tasks like cutting the grass.

I guess the other problem for Long Marston is that they have a couple of other museums not a million miles away. Midland Air Museum and also Wellesbourne are all within a stone throws distance.

Come on children play nicely. :diablo:

Although it is dissapointing to see what is happening to the aircraft as Roy states they are not breaking the law in anyway. Comments like that should be saved for the true law breakers of the land. Naughty Roy, and also Bex for being so easily led.

Another way of looking at the issue is that there are a large number of these airframe types in preservation around the world. We have Hunters, Whirlwinds, Doves/Devons in abundance.

Now I know that preservationists dont want to hear this or even admit it but we can’t save everything that’s sat in a field and there are plenty of other rarer airframes around the world that people could be getting passionate about saving.

Im not saying that these aircraft dont deserve better as I think they do, but they are owned by someone who has a legitimate right to do as he/they desire.

Im not a fan of helicopters but Ive always been rather taken by the Wessex. Ugly but comes with bucket loads of character.

What condition are the two airframes really in as its hard to tell from the photos on the link Ben kindly added.

Im also guessing the Wessex would be the easier of the pair to move especially if the main rotors can still be folded back?

Nice pics Brian.

Love the one of the kids in front of RW386.

Their faces say it all. And isnt it great that the Spitfire can still light up young peoples faces like that. Reassuring for the future of historic aviation.

Ps Why did I never have such good school trips. :confused:

Cheers for the compliment Cees,

Its based on the 1/72nd Hasegawa kit. Spent ages detailing the internal cockpit areas only to find once the fuselage halves had been joined you cant see ****** all.

There was indeed a Handley Page wing tested but this is representing the Folland wing they installed for reasearch purposes.

My item is using a modified Airfix Gnat wing corrected dimensionally. The frame work around the base of this wing has still to be constructed which is why she is looking a little basic at the minute.

Other than that and converting the rudders to represent the Lincoln type that PA474 has fitted she isnt far of being finished. All I have to do is find the time.

Its funny so far its taken me longer to get this far with the kit than it took them to do the major on the fullsize 😀