To celebrate this wonderful occasion, I must dig out two of my favourite bomber novels, Johnny Kinsman and Maximum Effort.
Both written convincingly by authors who had “been there and done it”, and both written around Halifax crews rather than Lancaster ones.
But I’m a bit confused and intrigued by this sentence, Cees:-
Are you suggesting that shortcuts have been taken or (I hope) are you merely stating that the forum shouldn’t play host to unwarranted criticism of the restoration work?
Alan,
A bit of both actually. In the first few comments of this thread there are already some assumptions about the aircraft :rolleyes: I chose not to respond to these as it tend to lead an life of itself which can be perpetuated in years to come (remember the Hurricane’s wooden wings myth that was repeated over and over by FP in the early years).
Apart from that some shortcuts (although minor in general) have been made noticeably the skinning of the nose section and the cockpit framing in front of the pilot, which is too crude. The latter does distract from the appearance of the aircraft but is usually unnoticed apart from the anoraks (am I?). But IMHO it was unnecessary as all the drawings are available and this part of the windscreen was undamaged when NA337 was brought up.
But she is magnificent, let there be no doubt about it.
Cheers
Cees
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