[QUOTE=setter]Somehow I managed 17 different countries over the past 15 months and nearly always with aircraft not far away- was I dreaming? /QUOTE]

I reckon – where did you find a year like that? Mine are never as long 😉

That aside, sounds like you had a great year – I’m tres impressed with what you’ve been posting from Oz lately – especially what’s going on at Wangaratta – a place I’d never thought I’d want to go to, but a gnome can change his mind too 😎

All the best for ’05 JP, Don

Not actually on my PC right now – but one of my rotation and happens to be under 100k. It’s a photo of sunset, taken from space. Not my photo tragically (don’t know whose it is), but I’d love to have taken it!

And here I was thinking he looked rather like my good self

Flood – date on back of photograph is simply that, a date. May be the date photo taken or anything. Clearly (probably) taken in some scrap yard obviously after both aircraft were taken there (therefore at least a few days after the last one was shot down). So the dates are all OK.

according to Putnams ‘British Aircraft since 1919’ all Avro 691 Lancastrains were built, or converted for pax use although some were used for frieght at the end of their lives.
BSAAC had 4 standard Lancaster 1’s converted into freighters. They had the elongated nose but were window less, and had no tail come just a painted over turrett. They only lasted around a year as they were very uneconomical.
However one of these G-AGUM was sold to Airtech Ltd at Thame for fitting of a pannier for the airlift.’GUM was scraped at Dunsfold 1949.

It’s apparent to me there’s lots of Lancastrian knowledge here so my apologies for the ignorant question, but perhaps someone won’t mind providing a quick lesson? Mt position is I know next to nothing about Lancastrians – and I thought they were all conversions of Lancasters. Are you saying Robbelc that they, or some of them anyway, were new build? And are you also saying that a coverted ex-miltary Lancaster was less economical to run than a Lancastrian?
I appreciate I’m reading between the lines a fair bit here, butr merely reflects my ignorance on this subject.

I thought Comet was a reindeer. Reindeer are famous for liking a good beer, just ask Vixen.

Well now, I know I’m not very tall, but I tell you – that has gone right over my head. Please explain? :rolleyes: