I’ve just had another look at Action Stations but the photographs are all taken close to hangars so I can’t see much of the field itself. There looks like a possible embankment in one pic but I’m not certain.

Flat doesn’t surprise me as it’s right on the Lee flood plain, which is very wide for what is now a pretty insignificant river. Action Stations also says the field was on clay which I suppose is a good start for building a reservoir.

I worked just a couple of miles from Chingford years ago and always understood the airfield was under the William Girling reservoir.

I probably concluded that from Action Stations 8 which says it was off the A110 and the Chingford reservoir was at the northern edge.

Pedant mode – Sawbridgeworth is in Hertfordshire.

IIRC, it’s been mooted a couple of times before but display pilots aren’t particularly keen on the idea.

Not the best war movie ever…

Quite possibly the worst in fact. 🙂

Another Nimrod! (but uglier than before)
MR4A due to replace the ageing, but ever lovely, MR.2s in the next few years, in reality it probably should’ve gone the way of the Nimrod AEW and a more modern airframe used.

The first production Boeing 707 flew four months before the Comet 4. How does that make it more modern?

Oh well, I didn’t know the real story…

Confession – neither did I until somebody posted the link on Plane Talk a month or so ago. 🙂

My immediate reaction was too high, too vertical and too short. Having now seen the two side by side, it may just be too vertical but I wouldn’t take bets on it.

I thought twice about posting my original comments as this Mossie is far more than I’ve ever done and a magnificent job.

However, if you’re building something that purports to be a replica, and real ones exist to check with, it shouldn’t be any harder to build something about right than wrong.

In similar vein, there was a gas turbine powered R/C Vulcan around a year or two back. Obviously again a labour of love and cost innumerable man-hours and thousands of pounds. The cockpit canopy was far too large and it stuck out like a sore thumb. The rest of the airframe may well have been perfect but such a glaring error detracted from the whole thing.