Came across this the other day. Certainly different, but not sure I actually like them-

http://lostamerica.com/aircraft.html

Flying LCY-ZUR-BKK next week with Swiss. First chance for my 8 month old little chap to meet the Thai side of his family. Going to be murder if he doesn’t sleep on the plane though, so spare a thought for us as you turn in on Wednesday night? Cheers.

wasn’t it Halton G-AHDM, BOAC’s one time “Falmouth”?

Similar kind of pics here (nothing too smutty)

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/aviation-glamour.php

Haven’t seen the film since I was a teenager, but my memory is that the Rutland Reindeer was a somewhat modified Avro Ashton. Google images is no help on this one – can anyone conform or confound my recollection?

I think you’re confusing “No Highway” with “Cone of Silence” The Reindeer was a badly mistreated HP Halton with (IIRC) a Brabazon nosewheel and that bizarre tail unit, but one of the Ashton research aircraft appeared in “Cone of Silence” Fictional name of the plane escapes me, but I can check when I get home tonight.

Got it. The book was called “Angle of attack”, but this is all I can find so far (3rd last paragraph) –

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-3931%28195324%2917%3A4%3C210%3ASR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

I read the book about 3 years ago, but I can’t for the life of me remember the name right now. Pretty certain it was a B-24, and that after the incident the Luftwaffe singled their unit out for special attention and the crew was ostracised.

How will the British meeja report it?

“The first of a handful of restored Bristol Vulcan nuclear bombers has made a surprise first flight from Bruntingham airfield in Lincolnshire. Powered by 4 huge Olympic afterburning engines, the supersonic Vulcan was just too late for the second world war, but went on to serve the RAF and Australian Air force, as well as serving as the prototype of the Anglo-American Concorde airbus at many Farnborough air shows in the 1950’s. The Vulcan also served as an airborne tanker for the Vickers Victors which carried out the Royal Navy’s famous raids on Mount Pleasant airfield during the 1982 Falklands war, credited with putting Argentina’s deadly Pucara fighters out of action. With its twin bat-like wings and ability to carry both crew and bombs if required, the Vulcan was even said to be the inspiration behind the American B-2 Stealth Boeing. The hush-hush restoration was carried out at the top secret RAF base by British Aerospace personnel over the course of several weeks, but an RAF Ministry of Defence spokesperson refused to either confirm or deny the Vulcans would be pressed into service in Afghanistan”