Famous last words: “It’s my right of way”!

The old flies’ cemeteries, perhaps?

Don’t forget the very special Swedish Harts!

Spitfire v Lightning

Here’s the picture from page 158 of “Spitfire – A Complete Fighting History” by Dr. Price. Yes, it was to do with Indonesian Mustangs, although he says “. . . we felt that in the end a competent Lightning pilot could almost always get the better of an equally competent Spitfire (or Mustang) pilot.”

Sorry to barge in on this, but throughout the “Mosquito” book Classic Aircraft No. 7 by Michael J F Bowyer and Bryan Philpott, the plural is consistently spelled “Mosquitoes”. The book acknowledges help from many major sources, surely one of which would have corrected the authors if they had made a mistake.
I would also like to point out that the Internet is renowned for sloppy writing!

dhfan, that was the Golden Hind, at Harty Ferry on the Swale (not Hamble) in May 1954.
Golden Horn had crashed at Lisbon on 9 January 1943.
The third boat Golden Fleece never carried that name, being impressed as X8274 and sank off Cape Finisterre on 20 June 1941.
Source: “Shorts Aircraft since 1900” by C H Barnes

Any details about the Junkers on floats? Is it a W.33?

The first Vulcan prototype VX770 was on loan to Rolls-Royce and based at Hucknall until its fatal crash at Syerston on September 20, 1958.
Also XA896 was converted at Hucknall to act as the test bed for the Bristol Siddeley BS100 vectored thrust engine which was to have powered the Hawker Siddeley P1154 V/STOL Mach 2 strike fighter, before that project, like many others, was cancelled.