It doesn’t matter. What’s far more important is that it arrives safely and spends the next 6 weeks being shown to several million people across the UK. A non-public event (one in which the public have been actively warned off, in fact) for a few invited guests is of very little importance in the scheme of things.

I think most of us are playing a ‘wait and see’ game with this one.

Caudron Luciole, I think

Presumably that is not necessarily the case to the RAF Museum, who have already traded away a Spitfire airframe in the hopers of securing the P-40, yet make no mention of the remains (which would, in all fairness, seem to be outside its remit)

Apparently they were asked and rejected the idea, on account of it being an ‘artifact’. It would actually be a huge job, I took a look last time I was in there and it is in the far corner, with the Sunderland (which is currently mounted on a cradle rather than on beaching gear) to move, as well as about half of the aircraft on the floor in AirSpace, to get it out.

I understand that it is still far from certain that the Duxford visit will happen, and negotiations are still continuing.

Yup. Well done.

Have searched high and low but can find no pictures. I guess Doug Arnold chased everyone away.

Then it didn’t fly, it was flown. World of difference!

And don’t forget the WWI show on Sunday!

Visiting B.E.2c, Fokker Triplane, and DH-2 replicas, last chance to see the 2 B.E.2es before they move to Stow Maries, an operational replica WWI tank, plus 5 of The Collection’s WWI types (all subject to the usual, of course!)

http://www.shuttleworth.org/tickets/event-details.asp?ID=267