I think you’ll find that’s why “fact” was in quotation marks. 🙂

It’s so long ago that I actually built any, as opposed to stashing them away in a cupboard, that I can’t remember what was particularly good or bad.

One thing that has always stuck in my mind is the hopeless wheels on the Mosquito FB.VI. Big fat tyres are an obvious feature of the Mossie and they looked like they’d been pinched from a push bike.

…things like wing design, manufacture and assembly…

Which BAE Systems, or whatever they’re called this week, are trying to sell to the nasty foreigners.

Wouldn’t mind a bit if one of the existing Lancasters was enginered back into a Manchester. BW Roger

Just as long as it’s not expected to fly. 🙂

Google is your friend…

First result http://1000aircraftphotos.com/APS/2918.htm

Ali – have you been to Hendon? One of the striking exhibits there is a Hurricane that was excavated from the mud flats in the Thames Estuary (as I recall – could be wrong on the detail). ..

Very close, Walton I believe, but the book about the aircraft, pilot and recovery’s in the bedroom and I wouldn’t be popular if I retrieved it now.

Geoff Rayner – “One Hurricane – One Raid”.

Picture here: http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/results.do?view=detail&page=8

Now that’s a challenge.

Good job you’re starting young. 😀

I’ve never thought about it before, but I wonder if the convention dates back to the days of starting handles? A right-handed person would need clock-wise rotation to swing a handle.

The timing end is a good way of identifying the front, speaking vehicles again. Number 1 piston isn’t reliable as Jaguar, certainly with the XK anyway, numbered from the back. I found that far too confusing and found it much easier to time it 360 crankshaft degrees out.