Jeez that thing’s in good nick …

This is indeed excellent news – thank you for posting Setter – nice artwork too!

Still kind-of slightly missing my point but that’s alright. My question is really a rhetoric one for a pub or some such place. Personally I’m really enjoying seeing more and more things that don’t have Merlins in them (nothing against Merlins, just that they’re everywhere) come back to life – some/many of them new build but that’s OK. And I wouldn’t change a Buchon – it should be what it is – but I do think they look much better with the Hispano engine in them!

Setter, sorry for drifting your thread a wee bit off topic – I didn’t appreciate initially that there was/is such a thing as a Merlin engined P40 – my ignorance, now rectified.

Thanks for that – I didn’t of course mean literally that everything is Merlin powered. It’s just that I notice lots of Merlin powered aircraft on the Warbird scene. I daresay winning the war helped in that regard (as in the lack of destruction of manufacturing capability, and lots of intact aircraft and engines and spares etc.) so maybe that accounts for it in part.

This thought/question actually came to me initially in JDKs model Buchon thread, where I have left a similar open question – why the Merlin (instead of Hispano engine in that particular circumstance)?

Wow – and thanks Setter for pointing me this way – I missed it the thread for some reason. Seems to me there’s an obvious visit here on the way to or from Temora for Melbournians (and persons flying from o/s).

Possible forum meet in Australia thread
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34988

There’s a penny very slowly dropping for me over these few months I’ve inhabited this place. This P40 is Merlin powered. Everything seems to be Merlin powered. Why?
Is it because …
– there’s a thriving rebuild, parts market?
– there’s a lot of crankcases or other fundamental parts about the place?
– they’re better (if so, in what way)?
– they’re cheaper?
– there’s not really anything else?

Come on you guys … 0.32 seconds, Google
“Unaware of local names, Surveyor General Andrew Waugh proposed to name the mountain after his predecessor, George Everest. This name prevailed until today, although the mountain has two local names – Chomolungma in Tibetan, Sagarmatha in Nepali.”

LUXURY RESORT HALTED

A victory in the fight to stop an American billionaire building a luxury lodge on iconic Cape Kidnappers has been hailed as a “win for all New Zealanders”.

The court, headed by Judge Craig Thompson, said though the proposal had much to recommend it, but was in the wrong place.

“Its economic effects, through employment, the provision of services and supplies and the attraction of people with high discretionary spending power would be positive … the problem is not the concept in the abstract, the problem is its location.”

The council’s district plan identified the site as an outstanding natural feature so the court could not permit a development unless it could ensure adverse effects were minor.

Judge Thompson said building chalets, a swimming pool, roads and paths and a car park would have adverse effects.

“The cape … is a unique iconic landscape with intense amenity values. It takes little that is man-made to jar there.”

comment … the sheer volume of interest in NZ coastal property, particularly from the USA, and even more so since the recent election there, is amazing. Problem is that big money drives up prices beyond levels the local economy (small coastal towns, farms, etc.) can support or compete. Result is a transfer of amenity value for financial value which many struggle with. Respondent argument is that coastal land is a fixed-volume commodity and will reach world price levels anywhere in due course. ’tis the stuff of revolutions since time immemorial.