PaulR,
50 type 5 LCTs, with 2130 among them, were lend-leased back to the Americans complete with British crews for the initial landings at Omaha Beach. He was then freed to go to the British areas where the craft were maid-of-all-work. Anything that wanted ferrying they did until the Mulberries were operational.

Thankyou (on his behalf) Sealand.
Pulse jets were never exactly suited to stealth!
Although what the Americans have working on recently may be closely allied. I refer to the high level serrated vapour trails over Mexico that have gaily been put down to UFO activity in recent years. Now there’s an area rich in speculative theories!

Ah, a beautiful piece of functional design Moggy – to which florid motifs have been added in a superb blend of Victoriana!

Sadly I believe it can’t be considered as it is, strictly speaking, a router.

Duxford based Tiger Moth R4922 made a successful forced landing in a standing oat field near Fowlmere earlier this afternoon after experiencing some rough running. Thankfully both crew were completely unharmed as it stayed upright and undamaged.
It was carefully towed out of the field by a tractor this evening.

Sounds like some real pilot skill there. I assume he stuck the tail into the crop to achieve that. Come into a crop like that tail high and you’re over! Bit unfortunate not to be able to make the strip at Fowlmere though? Any more detail available?

With apologies for the huge lapse in time… I too am puzzled by the divergence in reported angle of descent. The sound I heard was consistent with a shallow rate of descent, but a much steeper angle is also reported immediately before impact. It would be interesting to know the result of the enquiry. The shape of the crater would have reflected the angle but the information given in this thread does seem to suggest that wreckage was scattered all around the impact point suggesting that the angle must have steepened. I wonder if the reference to ‘bomb bay doors’ (which of course the Meteor does not have) was actually a sighting of the inner undercarriage doors being down preparatory to putting the landing gear down?
I realise of course that our perceptions of the same event can vary quite widely but there may well be a logical fusion of the two – which the inquiry may have discovered.
Is this accessible to the public?

Thanks for posting the link Bob.
It was great to read of the illustrious history of Britten-Norman.
I was delighted to see the Trislander appearing in Duxford photos as I have had a great liking for the design for many years. I built an 80″ span model of G-JOEY back in 2001 when Aurigny had just changed their livery. I built mine in the earlier livery pictured in the linked DAS article. I believe it is still flying in other hands.

As I said, I’m not really into ships – but that seems a LOT of money for three years’ service to the nation. Does someone in charge of our defence have a lack of foresight? … or is technology moving faster than I think?

So if she’s not actually unseaworthy how come we’re so sure she won’t be sold on?

I have to say I am probably more concerned that our warships are sold at scrap value to whichever foreign nation puts in the best tender. What is to prevent them being reclad and sold on at say £10m to face us in some future conflict. I seem to recall the Belgrano was ex R.N. – and was enough of a threat to warrant a couple of torpedos to take it out of the picture.