This forum is moribund, but what’s left of it has no leaning, political, barking mad or otherwise.
That’s apart from a conviction from most members that nothing Gillespie says is worth hearing.
I think Maid of Harlech was a name conjured up by “TIGHAR – The International Group for NOT ONE Historical Aircraft Recovery” – thanks to Mark Pilkington for a recent comment – probably in the hope of generating more income.
There’s a thread running on WIX about it currently and as has been pointed out there, it’s a P.38-ish shape of corroded aluminium alloy/oxide.
I suspect if anybody tried to recover it, it would be a pile of scrap very quickly, and it’s protected so nobody can do anything about it anyway.
If he didn’t dismiss it, he’d have nothing to base his obsession on so wouldn’t have been able to make a comfortable living for 20-odd years.
G.P. Putnam & Sons are part of Penguin but my 2001 reprint (reprint, not revised) of Westland etc. says Putnam Aeronautical Books, a division of Chrysalis Books.
Chrysalis have since divested themselves of non-musical enterprises and their imprints, after changing hands a few times, now seem to be part of HarperCollins.
Whether that includes Putnam Aeronautical and if any of their titles will reappear remains to be seen.
The initial problem is finding an author with the dedication and ability to research a new book. Then the original edition stretched to three volumes, a new edition would encompass pretty well exactly double the time-span of the original so would certainly need more volumes.
Could Putnam be sure of enough interest to commission a new edition?
Related to that, are they still updating any of the others in the series? My Civil Aircraft Volume 2 is 1988 and Westland is 2001. I think they’re the newest I have personally but I’ve only got about half of the series.
Not metric then… 3.813, or 3.8125 to be really precise, is 3 and 13/16ths.
I’m not sure about the potential Continental market theory as being the reason for metric dimensions.
Halford had always used metric units at least since the days of the Cirrus, understandably in that case as it used Renault cylinders.
Like-wise, the DH Gipsy series is also metric, except in Australia where for some strange reason they decided to convert everything to Imperial dimensions.
I’ve no idea about the BHP (Beardmore Halford Pullinger) engine units but as it was initially based on a licensed Austro-Daimler engine I suppose there’s a possibility that the BHP was metric too.
Not too many rodeo fans in the UK at a guess…
Just like the plank at Duxford that abolished Friends of Duxford and I understand is now hellbent on ruining Old Warden.
I’m also a reader and hoarder of back issues since Issue 1 – and the single Classic Aircraft predecessor – initially from newsagents but a subscriber for around 30 years at an educated guess.
The magazine’s often been quite difficult to read at times in recent years, as an old fart, due to the habit they had of printing in white over a full page dark picture. That was what first triggered my thoughts of cancelling the subscription.
Now they’ve gone the opposite way with acres of wasted white space, and less content.
No doubt if I bothered to complain I’d get the usual “clean, modern” guff that’s been used as an excuse on innumerable websites in the last few years – this forum for example.
If anybody even only thinks “clean and modern” they should be sacked immediately.
Facebook isn’t an option for me as I don’t and won’t use any social media.
I think it’s time to cancel my subscription, which I’ve been threatening to do for the last few years anyway.
I’m 70, not 7 years old.
Definitely rose-tinted glasses.
The Vulcan will never move from Finningley, unless the worst comes to the worst in the future and it leaves in a convoy of skips as scrap metal.
Scampton is far too distant from Duxford for it to make financial or logistical sense for TFC.
VTTS had rose-tinted glasses too with expecting to restore WK163 to flight, laudable though the aim was. A Canberra – any Canberra – has nothing like the presence of the Vulcan to attract funding,
I’m with Old Towzer.
Seeing and hearing RN201 growling past at Duxford, in the air or taxying past the Friends of Duxford enclosure, I was in seventh heaven.
I’ve never particularly liked the silver with a red stripe scheme but for some reason I made an exception for that aeroplane.
I was really sorry when it went to the States but I think it’s back now.
Dorothy? Surely Barbara?
I stand corrected. Well done, sometime in the last few hours it’s all gone.