The director general is also the president of Cross & Cockade with a particular interest in RNAS and seems keen to get as many WWI aircraft into the museum during his ” watch ” with a touch of Empire Building perhaps

I’d far rather see ‘Empire Building’ in the form of filling sheds up with new and relevant aeroplanes, rather than (under the previous incumbent) building fancy new sheds at vast expense, then spreading the same aeroplanes around these shiny new sheds, whilst failing in the basic remit of keeping the doors open, the lights on and the archives accessible to researchers! And then adding irrelevant (to the RAF) aeroplanes such as the fake Mew Gull, ugly Miles wotsit and Comper Swift.

Snipes in NZ & for Kermit Weeks have the new reproduction Bentleys

How many Snipes have been built? Certainly, the first one in NZ is the same one that is now in Florida, and has an original, not new-build, BR-2.

Are there new-build BR-2s coming out of ‘Vintage Aviator’? :confused:

Y’know with Snafu airborne, there can’t be many extant WW2 types that Duxford doesn’t see these days.

Apart from Tigercat, TBM, Lancaster, Swordfish, B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, A-26, P-38, P-39, P-63, Firefly, MS-406, Bf-109, Fw-190, Zero, most of the trainer types, most of the transport types………

Duxford’s a great place, but a little sense of proportion is needed here I think! 🙂

Looks pretty conclusive to me.

Of course all those gentlemen could be CGI :diablo:

No, I think they’re almost certainly re-enactors.

Thanks for the update Tango Charlie. Great progress is obviously being made, and really exciting news about the Vega Gull. 🙂

Great news, the worldwide population of airworthy razorback P-47s has just doubled! 🙂

Well done to all at TFC

Well serial no ends in 8 !

Steve

And begins with R, perhaps?

Surely it’s the pub that is being named after the pilot. I can’t see ex-BoB pilots changing their name by deed pole to “Rose and Crown” or some such!