It’s late and I need to do some sums.

But my first design guess would be to have the ship fully equipped with huge reserves of fuel and spares and try to keep everything that worked aloft, with just one tanker needing to come back down for more (at a time I mean). Semi broken airframes aloft given some fuel to go home.

Given that a big enough spring could stop anything, and that the Vulcan was not exactly glued to the floor, my hunch is that I should look at the t/o roll for a laden Victor without tearing it apart.

Not strictly eBay, but reckon that here is a good place for this one.

Bought a protected push button switch, as used for starter motors, bomb jettison etc. WWII era.

It’s been badly disguised with a coat of black paint on the cover. Red visible on the inside of the flap cover.

Not a problem.

The covered legend is “Jettison Live”. I can guess what it means and why, but Google doesn’t help with an aircraft ID.

Any ideas chaps?

As I inferred, no axe to grind with the vendor, but it’s going to be the starter button for a Jaguar straight 6 4.2 Litre powered Land Rover, and I’d like to pay homage to all of the eclectic parts selection.

I spoke to Euro CAA about this a few years ago. Asked what I’d have to do to get a new design 27.1 Litre V12 certified.

Simple answer was complete history of the process from design to manufacture and one destructive test (crankshaft failure to see if it stayed reasonably well contained).

Not that daunting really.

Dammit, every one a cover shot.

Back to the camera manual for me.

The background looks too hilly for Hurn.

DD

That’s what I thought. Dad’s family were North London born. 1920’s.

My grandparents ended up in Bournemouth after a London life. So, one daughter ending up down there is understandable.

Where she met my uncle is what I need to establish. Her older brother (my Dad) was RAF, so there is a potential connection. (She was the caring one of three).

I’m rubbish at names, but good at faces, and I can hear the laugh!

Here are three that my Daughter took yesterday too. Not bad considering she was in a moving leaf-sprung Land Rover…