Real:
The Hawker Fury I at Old Warden on a perfect evening. Still not sure I’m ever going to see it fly.
The Vulcan, on its final display, with all the fatigue life preservation measures thrown to the four winds, doing Falk-esque rolls, max-speed passes and generally being flown to the limits of its envelope.
All the flyable Hunters gathered to to recreate the famous 22-aircraft loop, plus a massive balbo and tailchase.
All the flyable Bf109es, all four Spit 1s and (hopefully) three or four Hurricane Is at Duxford for the 75th anniversary next year.
The Sea Vixen. I just seem to miss it every single time!

Fantastical:
Three or four V-bomber QRA scramble. Full take off sequence, with pilots running to the aircraft, quick engine starts and sequenced take-offs, all inside five minutes!
Lightning. Doing anything. But a nice vertical depart with burners lit would be nice.
Some early-war or interwar heavy bombers-anything from B-17c or d, Martin B-10, early Do.17, Wellington, Hampden, etc.
Hawker Tempest V
John Derry, Neville Duke, John Cunningham and contemporaries in a period Farnborough, complete with close passes, sonic booms and the thrill of new and secret technology.

I imagined his statement “the aircraft that won the war” would spark a debate on this forum

Nah, that’s because deep down everyone knows that the war was really won by the Blackburn Botha.

Thanks for posting these, there’s some super little snapshots of the RFC here. I particularly like the officer sat chatting to the elegantly-dressed lady. She’s wearing all manner of furs-surely this one isn’t taken in the Middle East?!

Thanks for posting that. Shame there are no pictures but sounds like it’s more a lump of wreckage following controlled flight into terrain than an intact tundra wreck. Still, perhaps the Russians may deem it worth recovering…

Is there much surviving footage of the Manchester? As it wasn’t in service for long, and was a new and relatively secret type for all of this, I’d be surprised if there’s enough to do a documentary with!

/ / Amen to that!

Thanks for the alterations, I had totally forgotten BW881 and AE977! Amended accordingly.

Well, there’s two Mk.1s:

P3351/F-AZXR (OK, this is really a IIa) in France
R4118/G-HUPW

Two IIcs with the BBMF

LF363
PZ865

Now three XIIs in the UK

5405/G-HHII/”BE505″ with Hangar 11
Composite/G-HURI/”Z5140″ with HAC
5487/G-CBOE

And three in North America, although I’m not sure how regularly, recently these have flown

N943HH/”V6793″ with Jerry Yaegen
KZ321/CF-TPM with Vintage Wings
(C-FDNL/P2970 now down under)

Plus, of course, the Sea Hurricanes

Z7015/G-BKTH with Shuttleworth
AE977/”P3886″/G-???? with Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar
BW881/”5429″/N54FH with Paul Allen at Paine Field

13 then, with the possible exception of the ex-Ed Russel example.
Hopefully soon to be 15-although I’ve not heard much about P3717 and P2902 lately…

Just found the above. More great work guys! That undercarriage linkage looks like new – The intricacy of rescuing all the stuck bolts is quite amazing!