… a fish pond you didn’t even have prior to the BBQ, and the fish therein looking an awful lot like grilled trout!

The RAF to name their C-17s Dakota?

Mind you, i think the current trend of re-using old names is pretty sad. Buying a Swiss proptrainer and labeling it T-6 Texan doesn’t suddenly make it an interesting plane. Nor does turning a Slug into a Rhino.

Ah well, it’s a safety-first measure. Good for them.

Bulgaria’s definately worth it, and the Plovdiv museum is very nice. If it’s cold enough, the curator will be happy to open up his bottle of raki for you up in his office… well, he did that when i was there freezing my protruding body parts off in 1996 🙂

If you pay the membership fee.

Oooh… something for the parrafinheads!

What: The Polish air force’s last homebuilt MiG-17 in service, this being a Lim-5.
Location: Modlin, Poland. Back then home of Poland’s test unit, the 45 LEH (not too sure about the last two letters though).
Date: I think the aircraft got these markings in 1994, but in August 1995 it was still at Modlin and was actually being serviced inside the hangar in the background (which was when i saw it).

I know of one surviving here in Europe, a Bulgarian one at the Plovdiv-Krumovo museum. According to http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/arado/arado.htm there are two more complete aircraft in the US, and a piece of framework in Norway.

Only pic of one of Graf Spee’s Arados i could find was this one, but that’s only from a quick google search which led to http://www.grafspee.com .

James (or anyone else),

On pic 9 (with the green Cat) there is a dodgy little jet-like thingie in the upper right corner, behind the Harvard’s wing. Any clues as to what that is?

TIA.