Absolutely magnificent work on the Barra Bill, not to mention the utterly amazing job you’ve done with K7 – just takes restoration to a new level.

If you should be at a loose end any time, there’s a Handley Page Halifax in London…. :dev2:

Very odd. Maybe they used a library photo of a ‘bomb-shaped object found at a crash site’ and that isn’t the one disposed of?

Ah, I see the photo is credited to Avon & Somerset Police. I have no idea of their ordnance identifying credentials.

Dear Eric,

Thank you for updating this thread,please keep us posted of any developments.

Best wishes

Many thanks for highlighting this Andy. Will endeavor to follow up a bit.

Glad to see that it’s progressing, the wings looked conspicuously ‘lonely’ the other week.

It wasn’t just the land offensive though. Without raw materials and manufacturing capacity disrupted by sea and air the development and manufacture of even improved conventional weapons became difficult.

Wonder weapons are all very well, and the Hortens are certainly impressive, but you have to develop them, manufacture them (to acceptable tolerances), fuel them, crew them, train the crews…. The Allies had advanced technology too, they were however in a position where it wasn’t about the only card they had left to play.

With the conventional fighters how much impact would reducing their output in favour of new developments have had on the retreat in the East and against the daylight bombing in the West? The ‘what ifs’ are fascinating, but could Germany really have held out, especially in the East, until 1946 in time for any of these projects to have any chance of reaching fruition?

“My goal with THE MIGHTY EIGHTH is to create a film that not only thrills and entertains the masses, but opens eyes and honors an important part of World War II that has never been portrayed the way it actually was.”

And won’t be this time either…. My goodness that’s so awful it’s an insult – to everyone.

There’s just no excuse, a classic case of just because someone can it really doesn’t mean they should be let loose to.

I’ll add my voice to those happy to see the Typhoon go to Canada on loan. We have such a shared avaiation heritage with ‘The Dominions’, not to mention debt of gratitude, and this is an exhibit which can, and should, be exposed to as many interested parties as possible. For those of us that get the opportunity, albeit only occasionally, to visit musuems abroad we can see some of the unique treasures. I don’t know if the Typhoon will stay in one place in Canada, but it will still not reach everyone there that would wish to see it, but it will reach many who wouldn’t be able to come to Hendon: for that reason it’s absolutely worth it for me. Oh, I’m in the UK lest anyone wonders.

(If we loan it to Beijing/Moscow/Cairo can we have our Stirling back?)