Seconded!

You raise an intriguing possibility. Funding might be all but impossible to obtain for the Cyprus Shacks but, if a carefully constructed proposal was put forward to use surviving parts and one of those AEW2s to recreate a currently extinct MR1 then the historic significance of the project might make funding somewhat easier.

You wouldn’t be recreating an MR1. You’d be ending up with an MR.2 with an MR1 nose and other bits bolted to it. The majority of the airframe would still be an aircraft with its own history and provenance with the RAF as an MR.2 (or AEW2 technically). If it was a case of, say, using the outer wings off a scrap 2 to complete an MR1 then fair do’s, the majority of the a/c would still be the original MR1.
It’d be like me bolting a wing off the prototype MGB on mine, then claiming its the prototype…

There’s a memorial to a 158 sqn Halifax crew on a bridle path near Atwick, E.Yorks. Was virtually forgotten about till a few years back when a local schoolkid happened across it and decided it needed cleaning up and making more noticeable, out of respect for the crew. Fair play to them.

I always had it down as a B1/K1.A, but Thunder and Lightnings refers to it being a K2P :confused:

Wasn’t there a B1 that lost its nose wheels on takeoff from Scampton? IIRC the guys in the back bailed but one was killed, and the aircraft was pancaked successfully by the ‘drivers’. Turned out it was because the nose leg had been damaged by the tug driver.

Watched 44 Inch Chest other day. Just Ray Winstone going slowly mad and lots of shouting and calling each other c u next tuesday’s really…

Can’t be- tools tend to have some usefulness… 😉
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