Kimberley definitely and Home Ales I think are still around. Extremely average beer, totally tasteless in both cases. Mansfield used to make a real ale called Old Baily which was superb. They stopped making it well before they were taken over so I don’t miss them.

I have no sympathy for Morlands either, Greene King did to them exactly what they themselves did to Ruddles. Before the closure I didn’t mind Old Speckled Hen but now it’s one of my favourites. After all the beers that have been ruined by changing breweries it’s nice to finally get one that’s improved. Ruddles County for example is a shadow of it’s former character and Courage Directors is virtually undrinkable.

Adnams used to make an excellent brew called Extra. I haven’t seen it for years now so I suspect it’s no longer made.

Nasty things, helicopters. 🙂

I’m sure I’ve read the Wessex can’t be put on the civil register but I’ve no idea why.

Old Speckled Hen and Abbot are top of my list.
Fortunately, in recent years they’re becoming more readily available in darkest Derbyshire.

I’m glad it worked. I know forgings are relatively tolerant to bending and straightening but I don’t know how tolerant. 🙂

5 real Comets were built. There are 2 survivors, Grosvenor House and Black Magic.

Replicas I’ve no idea.

Steve
The idea is great, but to a certain extent I suspect it depends on what you can find that’s already available. I can’t see it funding a great deal of new material, although I would be delighted to be proved wrong.

Janie’s suggestions of NOTAMs and the like would obviously be extremely useful to pilots, but terminally tedious to us ground bound viewers. If you can find the right balance to attract drivers, airframe and the rest of us you’ve cracked it. You would also be in huge demand by other niche channels as a complete smart**** and won’t have time to run it. 🙂

Mark Williams is an excellent presenter.

He’s genuinely interested in everything I’ve seen him present and, I’m reliably informed, is a thoroughly nice bloke.

I saw Robbie Coltrane talking about diesel engines on Discovery Wings a few hours ago. Also genuinely interested, and if he’s not a nice bloke, as he’s 8’12”, I’m not going to tell him.

Are they definitely chalk cliffs? I agree at a glance it certainly looks like it, and I’m terrible at photographic analysis, but could it be dunes or a sandy seashore.

Looking at the top right of the pic, it appears to show a wood right up to the edge, which in my limited experience of cliffs is unusual, but trees presumably don’t grow in solid chalk.

Also, there’s very little cultivated land near the coast. I haven’t got a clue what the significance of that is but it must mean something.

I think hinged canopies are relatively unusual. The only other one that springs to mind is the ‘109 (although there must be others) which I’m pretty sure is hinged on the right for access from the left.

How about the BAC1-11, sneaky with a central rear airstair. 🙂