IIRC, it was only the two prototypes that were completed without the kink. More straight leading edges had been made but were modified before being fitted to airframes.

Vulcanpilot’s mention of the electrical system reminds me I read about a B1 being lost due to a short in one busbar causing all electrical power to be lost virtually immediately.

How can it go for the BBMF?
For one they aren’t operating a commercial airline and secondly they are serving RAF aircraft so civil rules don’t apply.

Assuming the Google translation of this http://members.xoom.alice.it/_XOOM/mc72/mc72.htm Italian page is somewhere near right, the MC.72 in the museum is the one that still holds the seaplane record from 23/10/1934.

I doubt it.
Howden and Derwent have both been VERY low several times in the last few years with some of the drowned villages visible. Obviously I don’t know exactly what depth of water there was but it wasn’t much. They tend to keep just Ladybower, the last of the three, full when water is short.

Vic Hallam has written several books about the dams/reservoirs and if anybody knows, he will. I usually see him a couple of times a year at various events so I’ll ask him.

The full name was RAF Woolfox Lodge.

As a yoof, I was an avid reader of Hunter Hawk – Skyways Detective. IIRC, I had and have still got six of the seven published. Sadly, from a quick Google, it doesn’t look like I can retire if I flog them.

To the best of my knowledge, we’ve got all Nevil Shute’s books. It’s a long time since I read one, I should do something about that.

From memory, the only one I didn’t like much was Stephen Martin(?). I would have checked the title but http://www.nevilshute.org appears to be offline.

Edit: Stephen Morris, not Martin. No idea now why I wasn’t keen on it.

Would best count as one I miss 32 years later?

Still no contest.