I wonder how much of the result, apparently largely due to the older generation, is due to the fact that the electorate was never consulted on whether we should join a European Union.
We were asked 41 years ago if we wanted to remain a member of the European Economic Community, commonly known as the Common Market.

Successive governments have signed up for everything since without asking Joe Public’s opinion.

I voted to remain in the Common Market. I don’t recall voting to join a European Superstate – and I’m pretty sure I would remember something that important.

BM597 Duxford November 2005 after Merlins over Malta.

I hadn’t realised until this thread that my copy of “Spitfire…” was an MAP reprint. I’m not sure I even consciously knew they owned Harleyford.
As it was bought around 1980 from the DH Museum, it had to be a reprint.
My “Lancaster…” is an original though – charity shop about 5 years ago.

I haven’t looked at Mark’s link yet so this is probably old knowledge now.

D.A. Russell was the publisher and/or editor of Model Aircraft magazine in the 50s and 60s. IIRC, it was then incorporated into AeroModeller which is presumably when the Harleyford brand came into the MAP range.

I need to consult various tomes to confirm but IIRC George Edwards suggested to the Air Ministry, or whichever Dept. it was, they could have an aeroplane not quite as good but a lot quicker to be going on with.

No, it’s just ugly!

With three links or pictures in seven posts for the TT.39, (and one in agreement) we appear to have a runaway winner.

I thought the commentary was excellent this year. It seemed to be at a lower volume, but that could have been me making sure I wasn’t right in front of a speaker, and it wasn’t continuous.
I don’t get as irate as some on here but my main beef about M. Chabbert is that he never, ever shuts up. To actually hear the display was great.

As D1566 said, Bristol F2 fighter. It’s post #44 in the Mosquito/Beaufighter thread.

A further scan through Sharp & Bowyer finds “a salvo from a 6″ cruiser” as opposed to a broadside. So many people, including me, remember broadside that it must be in print somewhere.

I can find virtually nothing about the Sea Mosquito, I’ll have to try some different books. One of the few mentions in there is of it carrying a 15″ torpedo which I didn’t even know existed, I assumed they were all 18″ so I obviously know even less than I thought I did about torpedoes.