Just voted. 55 – 45% now.

Can’t help but feel that , far from being a sacrilege, running Bluebird would be in honour of Donald Campbell’s endeavours and memory. Perhaps it’s time for another search of the lake to try to recover the missing body parts. I can understand Gina being upset about that.

Beautiful scheme on the Rapide. Which squadron / unit does it represent?

I’ve flown a plane with that type of yoke. It wasn’t difficult but the pedals felt a bit spongy.

I think that’s a U at the end of the reg. making your initial identification correct. The aircraft didn’t have much luck unfortunately.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=153464

Don’t know if these are any use. First one is the Strathallan Guide Book entry, the second from the auction catalogue.

Not a patch on the images ive seen of what it used to look like.

Indeed not – it used to be a wonderful hive of activity. Back in the 70s especially there was always something going on there. I visited regularly with my dad both at weekends when the museum was open and on weekday evenings when we would stand at the roadside seeing what was new – there was always something different – new arrivals for the collection; rare visitors at air display times; regular visitors such as Noralpha G-ATDB, Messenger G-AKBO, Lake Buccaneer G-BBGK to name but a few. And the local newspapers frequently had interesting headlines.
Apologies for quality of some pics but only had a 110 instamatic at that time and made the bad decision to use canvas photo paper!

Hi Andy,

According to Lost Aviation Collections of Britain the P-39 was unidentified, out of Russia and exported to the USA in 2000. It only mentions the Fi-103 briefly in a postscript stating that a V-1 doodlebug was displayed from 1998 till closure. The collection was called the Island Aeroplane Company and The Front Line Aviation Museum.