Although Cameron still comes out with the mantra : That a big vote for the UK Independence Party could lead to a
Labour victory at next year’s general election.

The perks of FPTP.

The wings were at 57.659833, -3.529576, next to a fire trainer. It looks like they used this area as a small car park and everything, including the fire trainer, was removed as of 2014.

I’m bumping this thread as I’ve had a look at Kinloss on Google Earth today; the perks of being off work thanks to some suspect conference grub.

The area at 57.651090, -3.535315 has been cited as a dump before, with photos of wrecked Shackletons posted on here apparently from this site. It looks like the soil is fairly contaminated with something here as nothing is growing. The coniferous forest looks fairly mature in the surrounding areas, so they might have tried seeding this area at the same time and found that nothing was coming up.

On a related matter, can anybody with good eyes identify the wings at 57.659833, -3.529576, dumped in the woods?

Nice to see the Shack is holding up.

That’s an interesting thought. I have seen the photos, but am unable to post them, but there seems little access for glider sections and there are numerous vertical steel/iron supports which produce relatively small bays. So, I suspect that some misinformation has crept into the description.

So there is no aircraft components, hardware or tooling left down there? No ‘keep calm and carry on’ posters? A basement seems like a tricky place to try and remove glider parts from, so perhaps the estate agent is trying to give a rumour some ‘legs’ in a bid to give their property portfolio a bit of an edge?

Internet pundits of a right wing leaning tend to use the ‘gravy train’ metaphor at every opportunity. It is overused. For example, upon reading the news that Rifkind has decided to step down in light of ‘cash for access’ claims , I’ve seen several comments of ‘lololol another rat leaving the gravy train’ from people that clearly never open a newspaper. Idiots. I’ve seen individuals miss the ‘train’ part of the metaphore entirely, so clearly Richard Littlejohn used it in a publication years ago and it has become the phrase of choice.

Secondly, idiots that stand at a pedestrian crossing and don’t press the button. Some times I’m the first person out of five or six to actually press it, and when the traffic stops I get dirty looks. Why do I owe passing motorists a massive favour exactly? Why wait for a gap in solid, constantly moving traffic?

It seems like such a fertile source of humour.

Edit for clarity: I was late to the Burma party, and I only joined this forum late last year. I read about buried Spitfires as a kid. I was surprised that this story was still on the go and that people had such strongly opposing views on the matter. ‘Tis all!

Given that it is priced at £16,000 – £25,000 I’m assuming it is. In Spitfire-conomics, that sort of money would fail to buy you this;