The Royal Thai Air Force Museum appears to have a Fantrainer chop shop of sorts on site. Most of the pictures I’ve seen show them missing their wings.

Rhein Flugzeugbau Fantrainer 400 seems like a good match;

…a T4 at Strathallen was scrapped.

That was the last of its type, right?

In an ideal world that Shackleton would already be on a couple of lorries bound for East Fortune, as it is criminal that there isn’t one up here. However the logistics sound like a nightmare. I’m not sure many museums could suddenly take on a number of sizeable airframes without serious consideration for space and appropriate resource allocation, no matter how apt they might look when parked up next to each other.

From my days in journalism it was an unwritten rule not to report on suicides…unless the person was prominent or it was done in a public manner/place…even then it was not dwelled upon.

Now it is a written rule I believe. The Samaritans provide some guidance here;

http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide

Of course the press will tastelessly ignore these rules en masse in the case of a celebrity suicide, such as the recent death of Robin Williams. My local rag is actually pretty good for observing these rules. People tend to fall off buildings yet nobody else is believed to be involved quite often.

Are you stating that I am “DIM” Meddle, and all men of my age are bitter and irrelevant?…
Just another example of lack of respect.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Errr, not quite. I’m suggesting you are perhaps a little dim if you think Clarkson is the spokesperson for people such as yourself, who view him as an anti-establishment figure railing against the (largely imagined) ‘PC brigade’. He is part of the Chipping Norton Set, remember, so he is hardly rocking the boat too much else he could have attacked his pal Rebekah Brooks over the phone hacking allegations. Via Top Gear and his Sunday Times column he has a controlled enviromment in which to voice certain views he may or may not have to people that clearly wish to read and hear such views and pay to continue to do so. Observe all the comments on Twitter from people claiming they will stop paying the TV Licence now because the ‘last good show’ is off the BBC.

And…

Respect has to be earned. You may well be very knowledgable on the subject of obscure aircraft construction techniques or similar, but if I find your views on other subjects to be fairly abhorent or plainly under researched then I will have no reason to show you any respect. Anybody that uses the phrase ‘PC Brigade’ clearly gets all of their information and views from trawling the Daily Mail, and is therefore appear to be a bit dim. :highly_amused:

He is not bowing to the “P.C.” Brigade, and has an obvious Anti Establishment attitude.

Nothing says ‘**** the system’ like dining with Rebekah Brooks, right enough.

His un-PCness is part of a character he plays, for which he is paid handsomely. I’m surprised you are too dim to realise this and honestly think he is some sort of ally for bitter, irrelevant old men. A single spokesperson (should be spokesman, bloody lefties) for ageing men everywhere, who find themselves cast adrift in a world of changing views. Eating disorders are made up! Homosexuals don’t have anything approaching a culture. Jokes about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes are funny. South-East Asians are a bunch of slopes. Eeny Meeny Miny Moe, Catch a nigger by the toe!

But then again, as soon as I see anybody talking about some sort of collective ‘PC Brigade’ (and all the weird ways of spelling an punctuating it) I am 90% certain they are bitter, irrelevant old men anyway. :highly_amused:

This aircraft will essentially be kept in airworthy condition, though certainly hoses and seals, etc. will deteriorate over the years. It has just flown and is flyable, the difference being that the owner (the Bat’a family) won’t fly it any more. Of course the argument is endless–museums burn down, Taliban destroy artifacts, tsunamis erupt, climate change will kill us all and take our restored airplanes with it, whatever–but the least arguable of all consequences is that airplanes too often crash if they are flown. This is an original Electra, unlike a bitsa Blenheim or a data-plate Mustang, and it deserves to be preserved.

Great post. 😉

Ahha, thanks for the link! I think the Bedsheet Bomber should be taken out of its misery. :apologetic: