The only forum I’ve seen with this ridiculous policy. Is it simply down to lazy and/or incompetent moderators and admin, because I’m not buying the whole ‘quote button abuse’ story. Forums a thousand times bigger than this, with a million times the traffic, somehow trust their many more users with a Quote button. WIX, PPRUNE, UKAR and Britmodeller all somehow manage. The culture of referencing specific forum posts by the number that appears at the top right, which makes following a thread difficult and, if anything, leads to more miscommunication, is ridiculously clunky and archaic.

That sounds like the beginnings of a bizarre pyramid scheme. “Be your own boss! In 6th months time you could be flying your own Spitfire!!!”.

Surely a more appropriate question would be “Could the EE Lightning…” given that none fly.

…why wasn’t this donated to a museum or put up for preservation somewhere ?

Perhaps the apathetic response to this thread is indicative of an apathetic attitude towards Pembrokes in general?

Don’t mention the dog

That joke has already been done on the previous page, and it wasn’t funny then either. :applause:

I wonder if Peter Jackson had all those plastic Lancs made up, then found out what Gibson’s dog was called.

That doesn’t change the fact that he has a fleet of mockup aircraft made especially for this film, sat around doing nothing. It will happen i’m sure, but these directors often have very busy schedules.

I’ve just read online that he had ten built. As such its a shame that there isn’t any photographs circulating that show this collection in one place. It would be nice if they were distributed as gate guardians or given to museums when he’s ‘done’ with them. There were some photos on Wings over New Zealand that showed replica Lancaster sections being towed around an industrial estate, with the replicas being accurate enough to fool some observers.

Simple, cost effective solution to ground level atmospheric pollution (CO2) is to plant more trees. The French have known and practised this method for centuries.

I have to admire your ability to talk absolute nonsense with such emphatic self confidence.

I’m struggling here to think of a single French proto-environmentalist. :confused:

One wonders if the aircraft involved had been a Spitfire (a beloved, historic and iconic type) if the grounding would have been as long?

A slightly crass statement.

Having said that, given some of the findings in the report, I wonder if those grounded Hunters have had their engines inhibited in the proper manner.