Hi, Jochen! Instead of hijacking this thread I will get my Midland Air Museum January 12th pix together (including photos taken inside the PR Canberra WF922) and put them up on a new thread hopefully later today – I have some translation work to finish first!

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank Malcolm, Eric and the other denizens of MAM for making my visit on 12 January particularly memorable. In particular Malcolm for giving me a thorough inspection of his Canberra, and Eric for doing the same with the Argosy, going so far as to open the nose!

See this thread for Swordfish pictures:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43336&highlight=swordfish

Thanks, Kevin, but I don’t think I’ll bother again at Glasgow, not that I expect to be there again soon!
However Prestwick is a different matter, it’s my second gateway into the UK!

The ad states “in the spring of 2005” so it seems to have happened already! Or is the Lightning, apart from its other wondrous features, also a Time Machine?

Thanks, dhfan, one weird thing was that I could send but not receive E-mails with Thunderbird.
Anyway, I have gone back to using Outlook Express, but will check out mailwasher as soon as I have time (= next week!)

In “Aces Wild” (the race for Mach 1) by Al Blackburn, the adjustable stabiliser feature is discussed on pages 9 to 13 inclusive.
It dates the first adjustable tailplane incidence control to 1929, and claims invention by Clarence Gilbert Taylor, who installed the device on his own Taylor B-2 Chummy. The hand crank and control lines were then fitted to the Taylor (later Piper) Cub.
The book goes on to say that North American engineers had independently arrived at the same solution for the XP-86 Sabre, although the similar control fitted to the X-1 was viewed by its designers as a ground adjustable device, not to be employed in flight. Jack Ridley apparently convinced Chuck Yeager that it could be used as an auxiliary pitch mechanism while in flight.
Finally, there is no mention of Miles or the M.52 in that book at all!
On the other hand, Phillip, I remember reading somewhere else that the Americans had “borrowed” the idea after seeing the M.52.

There were no officials up there to bother me, and anyway I would have said I was waiting for my mate to arrive and pick me up!
There are probably cameras watching me, but as I said I was there for about a half hour and didn’t see anyone at all! Of course I made sure I didn’t go near any cars, and also at 61 years of age I was probably considered a harmless crank!
I didn’t think the UK was so paranoid that standing in a car park would be considered illegal! However it’s 30 years since I moved to Sweden so perhaps things have changed a bit!