The roundel looks hastily sprayed on. It appears to be asymmetric, and a darker top layer has flaked off in parts. Why would it be used as a decoy? I can almost imagine the roundels were painted on downed aircraft either as wry humour or as a morale boost? “This is one of ours now!”

I’m not offended, I simply fail to see the point. There is a false dichotomy at play here; you don’t simply fall into the camp of entertained or offended when it comes to the bitter, irreverent nonsense espoused in this “diary”. There is better written and more entertaining material online already, and if I wanted to hear the pointless mutterings of geriatric men I would head to my nearest flat-roof pub.

Speaking of which, starting a paragraph with “I was in the pub the other night…” goes beyond the realm of parody, apparently without any glimmer of self awareness. This reads like a 3rd rate standup routine.

Ultimately I’m seeing this as the pointless rantings of somebody who needs a personal blog, rather than dilute and pollute the value of the Bluebird project with badly written analogies about cooking curries, calendars or foxes. Writing screeds of antagonistically worded text, then getting offended when people are antagonised, is odd and unprofessional behaviour. It sounds like trolling to me. I’m happy to discuss any and all sides of fox hunting, for example. I went to agricultural college, so I understand the arguments in favour of managing their numbers, the need to preserve rural traditions and the anger farmers feel when they are dictated to from on high by ‘townies’. However, what does this have to do with resurrecting a dead speedboat?

Learn from Gerald Ratner, and stop soiling your own nest.

It is a shame to see it go. You get a good look at 12/30 from any train heading North to Dalmeny. I thought that they used the runway very occasionally when work was being carried out on the main runway. Usually I hear about it when people at work who live out that way start complaining about loud aircraft.

The original buildings of RAF Turnhouse have been disappearing over the last few years. In fact, when I visited the Malta air museum last year the Scottish couple (mid 40s, at a guess) were asking each other if they knew where RAF Turnhouse was. Clearly the connection between it and EDI has been largely lost.

Attempting to stitch together yards of corroded geodesic sounds like a challenge. From memory there is a chunk of one sitting in the deep stores at East Fortune, and small geodesic sections occasionally wash up along the Moray coast after storms. There is probably a lot of constituent Wellington material out there, but I imagine reconstructing it all would be akin to trying to piece together a smashed honeycomb. As such there might be more of a compelling argument for building a new one from scratch?

Klan Airways? You need to provide a bit more context here! The reverse swastika on the tail is quite an interesting addition.

Impressive work! Are you permitted to plug the pub on here? Do you have photos of his other creations?

I’ve seen such ‘grow bags’ disparaged in some quarters, the notion being that they are a tad Walter Mitty when worn by GA pilots, but they are a lot better than a trip to the burns unit.