Google street view suggests it is a number four tram. Google hasn’t sequenced the public transport facilities for Krakow, unfortunately.

If nothing else there must be some grinding cognitive dissonance over in the Guardian camp. For a team of journalists that like to remind us that things as innocent as Thomas the Tank Engine promote a misogynist message, they seem oddly quiet about the attacks in Germany over New Year. It does make me wonder why modern feminists don’t criticise honest-to-goodness patriarchal societies such as those found in the middle east and north Africa, and instead feel the need to attack trivialities in western Europe instead.

The Twitter account ‘So Much Guardian’ is pretty entertaining.

https://twitter.com/somuchguardian?lang=en-gb

How much of a museum is there? I’ve seen pictures of a Vampire under a gazebo and a piston Provost. Neither looked to be in mint condition, and I understand the B1 Vulcan cockpit is in Stranraer now.

558 had OEM support and spent most of the time indoors. XM655 has neither of these luxuries, and the runway at Wellesbourne is too short for a short ferry flight to be done safely. I think there is a world of difference, tech wise, between a B-29 and a Vulcan, especially when one has been stored in an arid desert climate and the other has been languishing in the English countryside.

XM655 will almost certainly leave by road, either carefully disassembled or in skips. There are already a good number of static Vulcans in various stages of corrosion in the UK; they seem over represented compared to the other V bombers. When XM655 is no longer a ground runner it will simply join the ranks of mouldering Vulcans sitting outdoors in all weather.

I follow a TSR-2 fan page on Facebook, and often see posts of an ‘if only…’ nature, usually with images of TSR-2s in fictitious camouflage finishes carving up the countryside at zero feet. From what I’ve read, it seems that the TSR-2 had such major issues with undercarriage sequencing that the first trial flights were flown with the gear extended, and that subsequent flights encountered other issues with the landing gear not locking into place correctly. I’ve also read that at certain throttle settings the pilot would be blinded as the aircraft was matching the resonant frequency of the human eye. The latter might have been an unforeseen phenomenon, but the former seems avoidable, which leads me to think that the undercarriage infrastructure on the TSR-2 was poorly designed. Were there other design issues with the TSR-2? On the fan pages the notion is always that a perfectly designed aircraft was killed off by meddling, and downright treasonous, civil servants. I imagine the truth is slightly less clear cut.

Bondo was introduced in the mid ’50s. Prior to that, body fillers contained lead. I’ve read a couple of threads on WIX that suggest a lot of P51s painted solid colours are hiding a lot of Bondo!

What a way to ring in the new year! :very_drunk:

The pikey’s what?