or here….

http://www.wwiireenacting.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=ab1efff16fc1ae2086d2b6e6fc042dc2

although you will have to register to view/post

BBMF, that’s fantastic! Now can we have Whiskey Golf in the red, white and grey as used by most RAF trainers in the 70’s to 90’s please?

My vote is for silver with yellow trainer bands – just like the Airfix Chippie…..

something that struck me with this scheme and the Duxford Vampite T11 scheme – does dayglo paint have a “life” (I know it’s not radioactive….) and does it eventually fade -even if kept indoors – as opposed to fading caused by weathering

From what I’ve heard from various websites and magazines shuttleworth are going to paint it as a Grumman Marlet.

that’s really quite a strange decision given that there are plenty of historically appropriate Fleet Air Arm schemes for the tall-tail Eastern-built FM-2 which was used by the FAA as the Wildcat VI anyway

Cue comments to the effect that they can paint it how they like because they own it………..

An important job done well.

This and other cases are well covered in Andy’s recent book “Finding the Fallen”.

An excellent read. Just got to get the first two in the series now….

It is interesting to compare the British and American approaches to the recovery and identification of remains.

I’m probably raining on somebody’s parade but hey -ho….

Isn’t this a bit of a pointless exercise, given the fact that within the last 3 or 4 years, and with the help of one or more of the original designer/builders (sadly no longer with us) somebody has already made a replica and proved that it can fly

or am I missing something here?

Now that is quite a list, but why go abroad for an Annie, Air Atlantique have one.

Could have done, but I was thinking more of the type used for maritime reconnaissance at the beginning of the war

Another time was last year. The presenters Jules Hudson and John Craven came with a TV production team to film the hangars and the project. None of us were even told about it let alone invited to help and the Griffin Trust attempted to corner a large slice of the airtime for themselves.

When challenged that the event should be called the “Griffin Trust Open Day” and not, as it actually was the “Hooton Park Trust Open Day” the Christine person retaliated by saying that they had done all the work for the event.

She then tried to hijack the TV people by laying on a buffet afterwards for them and Griffin Trust only and inviting only Hooton Park Trust members whom she favoured. She then proceeded to bend the ear of the programme’s producer as to how great the GT were and what they had achieved, but a little bird told me that she was put in her place by said producer when she said they had come to see Hooton, not the Griffin Trust.

Anyway, these people hijacked the day and the programme will be aired on BBC TV fairly soon. If you see pics of a Norfolk man driving John Craven round in a Land Rover then that is the main antagonist, David, of the Griffin Trust and, despite his apparently heartwarming manner is one of the most cold-hearted, callous and bigoted individuals I have ever had the displeasure to meet.

Anon.

see Heritage Heroes BBC2 6.30pm Monday 6th Feb – Friday 10th Feb (and beyond)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c32hw