The A340 has gone out of production as well now – so BBMF might have to start looking for something else to fit……

That prop could have gone to the Barra restoration being undertaken by Mike and the Bluebird team

OK, here’s my first shot of the year I’m calling it “Dawn over the Ju52”.
Dawn over the Ju52

Where’s Dawn, i can’t see her in the photo.

I tend to view this forum as like spending a night in the pub with your mates – you’re going to get the serious, the silly, the left field, the facts, the jokes, the stupid conversations and the curious connected discussions, just as you do on here.

That’s part of the appeal – you never know what you’re going to get – but I bet we all know more now than before we chanced upon this place.

If you don’t like it walk away – it’s bigger than any individual and if anybody comes here to gain or seek credibility, I humbly suggest you perhaps look elsewhere first

I wonder if it would have taken a bubble canopy mod?

It could – as in the Avia S-199 in post war service

The Galland hood more correctly an Erla haube (after Erla – an Me109 sub-contractor) and IIRC had little if anything to do with Galland

Aeroplanes don’t normally sit on axle stands to assist their tyres in staying just a few cm above the ground.

The difference between axle stands and wires is?

Moggy

significant, in my mind.

Nine times out of ten you don’t notice axle stands and the airframe appears to be in a natural, normal state. Hanging from wires in a building with no noise or (forward) movement is an unnatural state.

I know which I prefer notwithstanding the valid comments about conservation – such as cutting holes in panels or adding additional strengthening around suspension points because the load is not spread across the entirety of the wing as in flight. I seem to remember that Culley’s Camel needed work to address distortion to the frame caused by hanging

Thankfully luminous dials do not seem to have been a problem for Cotteswold or a number of other WWII pilots who are happily still with us.

Peter

my thoughts exactly………….

When the time, funding and runes fall together for a return to flight and repaint, it would be nice to see the Wildcat in an authentic Fleet Air Arm Wildcat VI scheme rather than it masquerading as one of the earlier versions. Wildcat VIs were operated in both camo schemes and overal GSB schemes so there are plenty of authentic options available.

On an associated point, the recent SVAS news item refers to progress with the Sopwith Camel reproduction and the winding down of the Northern Aeroplane Workshop, responsible for the M.1c and Triplane reproductions in the Collection, as well as the Camel.

I think it only right that we collectively pay tribute to, and thank them for, what they have achieved, don’t you?