Your ‘purple prose’ means that you are related to the late, lamented Barbara Cartland.

I always wondered what you read in the bath.

Why is anybody surprised that an old, fat, pub-dwelling cockney whose sole purpose in life is to throw pointy things at a round thing has archaic, non-progressive views? Why should anybody care? I’m sure I would find similar views held dearly if I kicked down the door of a croft on Lewis and interrogated the inhabitants. Why waste energy on trying to change the opinions of this steadfast corner of the population?

That is what forums are for Meddle – everybody has an opinion – many of which might differ from yours ; )

There is a difference between simply holding an opinion and the rampant paranoia going on here. All we’ve learned is that Hendon are moving some exhibits around and the manager (or whoever) doesn’t know the entire inventory of their stores. This thread would give the impression that these airframes were off to the smelters!

Opinion time! Hendon is behind the times, as a museum. They’ve made an impressively boring, dry museum out of fascinating exhibits. The lighting is crap and the exhibits are crammed in gracelessly. On paper at least, a museum with a Liberator, Lancaster and Vulcan within a few feet of each other should be astonishing, but the gravitas of these airframes is lost of the murk and the clutter. If you want to know anything about what you are looking at you have to squint at screeds of text in either gloomy darkness or the unrelenting glare of a spotlight. I think this forum tends to favour museums that follow the ‘shed full of stuff’ model, such as Hawkinge and the like, but I don’t believe the general public do! If money is an issue then Hendon should consider charging an entry fee.

Whilst I can appreciate the significance of these medals the real treasure of Winkle’s at this auction are his log books. Now they should be kept together and kept in a museum (FAST or Yeovilton)

East Fortune surely, given that Brown was born in Leith?

Public donations? Maybe 2044 is a better bet

The People’s Typhoon. Typhoon To The Sky!

Never say never.

Alright there, Walter Mitty? :highly_amused:

The chap I spoke with was mainly talking about the food and rum rations on HMS Albion and, latterly, the US carrier that he swapped onto (which was a dry ship but had much better food). He didn’t seem that interested in aircraft, so he may well have been wrong. He told me about the various bars in Edinburgh that serve the ‘right’ rum, as well as the prices, so I think his priorities lay elsewhere!

$22,000 seems cheap, though, even for a 3/4 scale replica.

The props turn the wrong way, the wings are four feet too long, the exhausts are made from recycled hard hats and there isn’t a bomb bay…

Wrong thread. :very_drunk: