I’ve always been amazed by these two picts of the testing of the wing fold…!
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Another NAA pic that I didn’t use in the book was this one…. shows the back end along with structural details. [ATTACH=CONFIG]221306[/ATTACH]

Sounds a lot like John Manning – thinnish bloke, dark hair.

I’m surprised no one yet has taken me to task that the TSR-II was the original MRCA….

Many of these aircraft were gathered together by the late John Bagley. The Comet was delivered to Wroughton by Capt Bryn Wayt and crew – somewhere I have pics of ther handover. The last time I was in it, the cabin was still dressed overall – including InFlight magazines in the seat backs! I know at one stage there were plans to also obtain a VC-10, 737 and 747, with a scheme to ‘roof in’ the aircraft between two of the structures.

If I really expressed myself about Dan Snow or Jeremy Vine… to me they both spoiled what would have been a pair of good memorial broadcasts – inane ‘questions’, inaccurate statements – Vine this lunchtime repeatedly said ‘the only Lancaster in the world’ – and twittering on over the sound of four Merlins….

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I thought it only right and proper to upload a picture of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, some of 617 Squadron and Guy Gibson’s dog ‘Nigger’!

I love upsetting Phill Jarrett every time I see him at Old Warden by claiming ‘Dickie Pearce was first!’