Lancman, if you have a Lancaster you would like doing then PM me, anything to keep in practice on Photoshop seven is handy.

best regards, steve

Re: lancasters

Originally posted by peter

The ex wallis island Lancaster will look great when she is all done. They have done an excellent job on the aircraft. Who knows dont rule out a possible ground run aty some time!

I admire your optimism pete but i doubt this will happen, The Le Bourget museum doesnt seem to have a policy of ground running aircraft so the expense of finding four merlin engines to fit in the Lanc that could run would be rather pointless for Ailes Ancienne to bother with.

Lets be content with three running lancs,

well, until next year, eh Pete 😉

Originally posted by Dez
Melvyn, i think your comments are a bit hard, however each to there own opinion!;)

I feel that the museum is going through a very transitional period and im sure plans are a foot to sort out some of the comments you and others have made…

The thing to remember is though is that these are OUR aircraft. They are national assets and the RAF Museum is a national museum therefore they should listen to the public comment on how these artefacts are being cared for and displayed. Sadly they do not. Complaints about the lighting at Hendon and S-Sugar have been raised time before whether it be through comment forms, letters, verbal concerns or thorugh lancman foaming at the mouth by the Lanc 😉

We shoudl be thankful we have such a fantastic collection of aircraft which are in dry covered surroundings but none of us can kid ourselves that the way aircraft are presented at Hendon is in the league of say Duxford or Elvington.

How about a little competition then,someone posts up a black and white picture of an aircraft and we can all have a go at doing a realistic version or simply let loose and go mad with it?

Excellent bit of work Snapper, i empathise with you on the amount of time it took. Great stuff.

Steve

Originally posted by Snapper
So, before Steve gets this thread pulled for his obnoxious and insulting behaviour, i’d like to second him. Perhaps if it hadn’t become so bloody boring over the past couple of years I would renew the subscription I kept taking out. Hell, I look in WH Smiths and buy it maybe once a bloody year now! No good. Get it back how we liked it.

Bye Corgi, Bye Diverse Images. Hello Historic Aviation and the subjects that are interesting.

Mind you, at least it pays for this site where we DO get what we want, and on demand daily. Good show Key, bloody well done.

Yes, ill add my thanks for the forum, its all to easy to forget the good and just concentrate on the bad. The forum is an excellent provision for the readers or, in my case, ex readers.

Mark, thanks for the pictures. Very interesting.

Note to Flypast, why not run an article on the epic restoration of this Hampden in Canada, it would beat the current run of endless articles on Spits, Mustang, Diverse Images and Corgi. Why not even have an article on the groups in Norway who locate the remains of the JU88s’ they have found? I’ll tell you why not, they are too busy writing articles on fighters that have been rebuilt to stock condition and that usually are one of the aforementioned.

Begging for the Flypast of old, Steve

A project can also be found at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre (home of NX611). A cockpit section was being rebuilt to static condition (good prgress too) but sadly the man behind the project died. I think from what i read at the time that the project would continue. More substantial hampden parts can be found there also.