I wonder how long before the money for hangar rent runs out

Presumably the fact that it was specifically stated as part of the grant of (not inconsiderable) Lottery funding that it would be retired to Duxford on retirement has now been conveniently brushed under the carpet.

I’m sure there must be a simple solution to the owl issue. I hear they taste like chicken.

From a personal point of view I like the civil scheme, but if you are planning to punt it around for show bookings you will probably find that it is more attractive to organisers as a military-schemed ‘ATA taxi’ and so would probably generate more bookings.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, it is an excellent book, I’m just sad that it is a missed opportunity to do as thorough a job as they did with the Miles types. There are a lot more excellent photos of the pre-war (and wartime) types around, the Mew Gull section of the book in particular I felt to be particularly thin, and hat on the Q6s. Still, it is better than what we’ve had in the past, Percival types have been woefully under represented in print up to now.

It is just that I could quite happily take a razor blade to my copy and use the last 2/3 of it for lighting fires with, or some other useful purpose. 🙁

The first third of the book is great, then the rest of it is cluttered up with those nasty tin aeroplanes that Percival, later Hunting, and then BAC made after the war. A wasted opportunity, a shame they didn’t split the coverage in the same way as for their excellent series of Miles books rather than cover all types on one volume. The amount of space wasted by individual histories of every Prentice, Prince, Pembroke, Provost and JP airframe produced severely limits the value of the book to me, as the sections (and photo coverage) on the pre-war types is severely truncated as a result.