Great brochure. I love the description of the Mignet as a “Fleeing Fly”!

Thanks for posting these, they’re super! Love the Lebanese SM79 (no idea they kept using them that long!), Hermes, and motley assemblage of USN jet hardware 🙂

John Aero, you’ve just made me chuckle into my tea!

I’d have thought Avro 504 was pretty multi-role, and predated the F2B? I’m sure I’ve read that it was used for air-to-air combat in the early part of the war, and there were also the Zeppelin shed raids, reconnaissance, and training.

What a brilliant attitude to restoration, and some amazing work to boot. Thanks for the updates Ewan, and I really relish seeing this progress!

South Oxford has been awfully busy this morning. PZ865 (I think although I only got a rear view) flew over headed W about 45 mins ago, a Gazelle in civil marks flew N about five minutes later, and just now a US Navy-marked Stearman flew by, also headed W.

That’s about a year’s worth of historics in an hour!

It certainly does look a bit sad – although turned right-way up, and (perhaps?) reunited with a canopy and nose glazing, I reckon it’ll still make rather a fine exhibit.
I can’t help looking forward to the completion of the Sola Flymuseum He115 a tiny bit more though!

Maybe the idea was to put so much primer on that it imparted some extra structural strength to the flimsy skin?! Some very neat repairs there Mr ZRX61!