I wonder why, with so many examples built, and used by a large number of different aircraft types, so few Sunbeam engines have survived.

The text of the article would suggest that it is a control line model.

No problem with discussing it…..

……unless, apparently, any comments are made which disagree with the prevailing happy-clappy view that everything is wonderful at Duxford, and all we need are more pictures of fluffy kittens, rainbows and ‘Frankie’. It is, of course, a marvelous idea that the present IWM management is making the hangars much less untidy and cluttered by ugly aeroplanes by turfing out all those nasty Luftwaffe airframes, instead of taking the previous regime’s approach of providing a steady increase in available covered space. Such contrary opinions, of course, fall foul of the established party line and will naturally be immediately censored.

America didn’t need battleships it needed aircraft carriers.

Surely it was the other way around, that the future course of the war in the Pacific was dictated by the fact that the Americans had carriers and no battleships after Pearl Harbor.

An interesting view on TFC from a US-based poster on WIX

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51507&p=514778#p514778

Have you contacted IWM Duxford to ask whether they would permit you to have access to their example?

G-ORDY, have you considered offering a set of all issues scanned to disc, in the same manner that SVAS do with the ‘Propswing’ archive? There would possibly be a market for it, priced at a tenner or so.

Indeed, albeit a ‘small group of partners’ who are very well-connected in the aviation industry. Nonetheless, a great achievement.