But, but, gents (and ladies), we shouldn’t even know where it is according to TIGHAR “but until she can be rescued from the sands of time, her actual location must remain confidential.” https://tighar.org/Projects/P38/welshlightning.htm Has anyone told The Daily Post? Have they infringed the TIGHAR ‘D Notice’? Are we even allowed to know where Wales is?

Nice horse Daz! Is that a Pelham you have him in?

On a positive note, the second hand book section is useful and particularly welcome.

It’s true that there are limited funds and yes, if the question is either/or then I would go for Moggy’s second option, but that top end of the Bomber Command Hall has been sad since the Valiant moved out so it’s not just a 2014/15 accounting year thing.

Difficult choices and someone else’s shoes.

Could it possibly be a Supermarine Walrus? Very square canopy, only the centre and port outer upper panels visible, looks as if it does continue to the other side, and is that a three spoke wheel and banking rather than a four-spoke wheel?

If you are in London I would add my voice to absolutely recommending The Science Museum. All other exhibits aside, the aviation gallery, for its size and content, is as good as anywhere in the world. It hasn’t got a fraction of the exhibits in, say, The Smithsonian, but what it does have are very significant indeed. On a non aviation theme, it would be a shame not to visit The British Museum too.

If by any chance you can arrange a visit to the RAF Uxbridge bunker http://www.raf.mod.uk/battleofbritainbunker/visitorinformation/ then that is also very much worth visiting.

That is sad and disappointing. What is the old adage? “If you have nothing good to say, say nothing”.

With the ‘carefully worded statement’, I presume that there was a manifest for the truckload that came back. Are they saying that the missing pieces went missing before they unloaded or were never loaded?

Actually, I’m not sure I want to know, it’s a sorry business all told. I just hope that once their boat is finished the Bluebird team can help out on another aviation project and we can see their skills at work again (disclaimer: the previous statement in no way implies that no one else can restore old aircraft before anyone takes it that way).

No offence intended Webpilot, but I must be the exception to the rule because I DO have fluffy memories of the HP Herald, flying off on holidays from Heathrow in the early 80’s, sitting facing backwards at a table, taxiing out almost underneath 747s etc… I’m glad the one at Duxford is being restored and my local one at Woodley being repainted.

Anyway, more to the point, there was a scruffy looking Herald cockpit section in Channel Express colours on a lorry heading towards the M25 junction of the M40 this evening, so maybe that bit at least has been saved.

Reading between the lines I would imagine that the “diplomatic skills” part would be rather more challenging at present than having “the means” in effecting this recovery.