you have to watch out for all those items listed as from WW2 Spitfire or Lancaster as most small parts like clocks, knobs n dials etc could fit most aircraft of that time period. everyone on ebay seems to think they were the only aircraft in the fight!!!!

Yes. I have a Spitfire starter button that was actually a Canberra bomb dump button. Included with a shot of matt black paint to disguise it.

Dunsfold. Last year. You know who you are.

Like so many of my “finds” in those days, they were mysteriously nowhere to be found by the time we unpacked the car when we got home!

That strikes a chord. As a victim of parental treasure selection I have become the opposite. Everything that my two find is definitely treasure.

That includes the twenty-odd clam shells that we brought back for ‘soap dishes’ – from Arran (where the wheel was) and despite the fact that it took three sessions in bleach/water/boil to find out which barnacle had human poo in it.

Sand was another bete noir which I shrugged off, in my lovely cars.

Since become an old Land Rover die hard I find that I care less than they do.

As I remember it, a three spoke wheel as seen on Spitfires. And others. Might have been four spoke. Still had the tyre.

Beach on the East coast of the Isle of Arran.

My ex-RAF Dad wouldn’t let me take it. I suspect that the mechanism for it’s presence there was a bit more than he was happy with.

Thereafter I too became more circumspect. He flew gilders at Camphill. There had been fatal accidents there, and if we kids found a part we would leave it.

However, I have found various bits in a Wandsworth garden, the Thames and on various beaches, mostly not identifiable, but interesting all the same.

I did find a scrap of loose Alu sheet in the tail of XM172, the Lightning at Booker, and that is now a special bookmark in a copy of ‘The Lightning Boys’ that I bought, autographed, at Dunsfold last year, as a present for my son, who couldn’t come.

Thanks for that link. Will get in touch with them tomorrow.

Well. They seem to be masters of social meeja. Twitter and stuff.

But they don’t seem to have found John Green and I on here. Both of us have said that we’d donate to a believable project.

That is more than a little telling.

Speaking for myself. I don’t do twitter. I am on Facebook to keep in touch with my kids. I will not be using either to follow/read about the People’s Mosquito project. They should come here and tell us about it.

For goodness sake, you don’t try and launch a business (for that is what this must be about?) by chatting about it in the pub, and then trying to get money from the fellow customers because you seem like a nice bloke?

They tend to be very thin in the rear fuselage ,in the correct light on the last one we had you could see from inside out through the roundel and it had Ply reinforcing bulkheads not very securely within.And the wing attachment area left a lot to be desired.[/url]

In fairness, unless the grp has a core (balsa etc.) it’s always possible to see light through it. I used to run a yacht building factory – went in one night and somebody had left an inspection lamp inside one of the boats. Enlightening in both senses!

Nothing wrong with ply bulkheads either. Most boats have them. In those day we used rolled corrugated cardboard for stringers too.