Was going to say its sad to see it sitting in a puddle but seeing the shape roughly matches the aircraft i guess they cleaned it up before photographing.

NIce little write up. The fact they seem to have only recently retired as firebombers shows how flexible the airframe design was. 

I think the point was more, if your brought up flying machines that exhibit bad habits then you have the advantage as will have the muscle memory to respond to these problems in a more natural way. Those brought up on modern aircraft whose traits tend to be much calmer have to think harder about how to correct issues in a problem. 

A few interesting tips 🙂 I must admit to hating stencils after working on 146 fire bottles and having to spray the instructions on. Never went smoothly. 

Not the most lucky of pilots then :S

I suppose it could have been “scrapped” as a flying machine and then sold on by the scrapman almost intact. Many railway trucks and carriages that were recorded as scrapped ended up in fields to be re used, maybe this happened with the Bris fit. 

Looks more like the doodles I used to draw in the margins at school than a viable flying machine :S

Radar bulge i believe as the Lancs did in the war