Seafuryfan, isn’t this where the well-known phrase “stick to me like glue” comes into effect?

Beat me to it, Mike! I hope they get some of those long rows of slowly crumbling aircraft inside soon!

Apropos #43, saw this at Abbotsford this year, pity it was so far away, the heat haze has affected the photo, and I needed a 50x zoom as well!
The jet Waco was one of the most memorable things I saw at Oshkosh in both 2003 and 2004, this year the lad was wingwalking, as far as I remember regardless of whether the jet was switched on or off.

The Beagle Airedale present in the static in 1962 was G-ASBY c/n B.523. The prototype G-ARKE, c/n B.501, which first flew on April 16, 1961, attended the previous year’s SBAC Show where it flew a display. One remarkable feature of the Airedale is that it flew only four months and ten days after its design was commenced.
(Sources: “Austers” by Mike Preston and Mick Ames, also “40 Years at Farnborough” by John Blake and Mike Hooks)

National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1 August 2003

1. LNER class A4 4496 4-6-2 Pacific 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and imported from the UK, in British Railways livery. Connecting rods painted silver- ugh!
Sister locomotive Mallard, now preserved in York Railway Museum, holds the world steam locomotive speed record on July 3, 1938 at 126 mph. 4496 was originally named Golden Shuttle, but was renamed in September 1945.
2. American Locomotive Company Big Boy 4-8-8-4 X4017, one of a batch of the heaviest steam locomotives ever built, to the Union Pacific’s design.
ALCo delivered the first batch of 20 – including no. 4012 – in 1941, and the remaining 5 in 1944. Big Boys had over one mile of tubes and flues inside the boiler. Their firebox grate measured 150 square feet. They had sixteen drive wheels, each measuring 68 inches. From coupler to coupler they measured 132 feet 9 inches. The tender held 24,000 gallons of water and 28 tons of coal and the engine and tender weighed 1,189,500 pounds in working order. The engines well deserved the name Big Boy which was written on one of the drive rods by an unknown worker at ALCo. They were built to pull long fast freight trains over the Wasatch Mountains of Utah and Sherman Hill in Wyoming. They served there until 1959 when the new diesel-electric locomotives took over. The Big Boys were not the most powerful engines, though they were the heaviest. But no engine ever came close to matching Big Boy’s combination of speed, power and agility.

The ring and bead sight is an emergency back-up, provided in case the electric gunsight failed.

50 years a railway anorak

Glad you brought up the subject, Anna, here are some of my favourites, beginning with yours:
1. Stanier Black 5 45305 at Loughborough
2. Replica Stephenson’s Rocket at the NRM York (found another one out the back!)
3. My personal favourite, the Stirling 8 foot single.
4. The epitome of steam – Mallard and a Duchess
😀 😀 😀 😀
There are two framed prints behind my computer – a Spitfire and a picture of the Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4-8-8-4 that I had the privilege of climbing aboard last year at Green Bay, Wisconsin.