These youngsters don’t know that Sheffield was once the world’s stainless steel production centre!

It’s wrapped in Foil? 😉

You didn’t realise how close you were! Although kitchen foil is aluminium, not stainless steel.

It’s a Budd Conestoga, the first stainless steel aircraft.

Thank you very much, Dennis, another piece of my captions jigsaw puzzle now slotted in.

[QUOTE=steve rowell]The Winnipeg Sun

At the time, the plane had only been in service for a month. The report stated the plane was likely delivered to Air France with the loose screw.

Air France put off repairing the terminal because a computer glitch indicated the parts weren’t available when in fact they were, according to the report.
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What parts? All that was needed was a mechanic with a screwdriver!

I shamefully admit that I have a copy on DVD of “Pearl Harbor – the Director’s cut” (4 DVDs) but in my defence I plead that I got it for the equivalent of a fiver (British pounds, that is) in a second-hand shop here in Sweden.
I don’t watch it very often, honest, but the winters here are long, cold and dark so I can’t ride my bike and have to look at DVDs instead!
Waiting for the Leg ends 2004 DVD to come over, which I hope will be an acceptable substitute.

One Ventura in Canada is this one being restored at the Alberta Aviation Museum at Edmonton.

Look over on the Historic for a dose of realism and hard facts.