PIA new colours

Nasir, they are all pretty damned good! Have you seen their new livery on a Boeing 777 on another thread? It’s just awful and oh sooooo 🙁 boring!! Please, please, submit your schemes to PIA Public Relations and get them to change this??

PIA new livery

Is that white overall, or half white, half tea-stained??

Originally posted by SOHC750
I believe the cockpit at Newark is from a different Beverley, XL149, thay was for many years part of the Finningley “Collection”. As far as I am aware nothing survives of XH124.

You’re absolutely right – this IS XL149’s cockpit!

😉 Yes the Airfix kit was reissued a few years ago and there are still several around. Kits were also issued by Frog, Revell and Lincoln, but these are extremely rare now!
Does anyone have a COLOUR photograph of the Rotodyne at Farnborough during its final public appearance in 1961, when it had ‘WESTLAND ROTODYNE’ titles and RAF roundels? Would like to build my kit in these markings and with central tail fin.

I am lucky enough (and old enough!) to say I have seen it fly at Farnborough Air Show in 1959 and 1960. Film of this is on the DD Video, “Farnborough, The Glory, Glory Years – ’50s & ’60s available from Flypast Mag

Museums in Beijing

Steve,

There are TWO museums there! The first is the Beijing Aeronautical Institute and the second is the China Aviation Museum at Changping, both within the Beijing district. At Shanghai there is the Shanghai Aviation Enthusiasts Centre.
Full addresses and listings of all aircraft are in Bob Ogden’s book,”Aircraft Museums & Collections of the World” Vol.1- ASIA, which is available from the Aviation Hobby Shop at West Drayton.

Cheers,

Albert(alias Adrian B)

Originally posted by Moggy C
“Hey Hiram. Waddya say we blew a few million dollars on rescuing an airplane from the Greenland icecap?”

“Sounds good to me Walt. My wife won’t be too pleased though”

“Yea, you’ll probably lose her”

“Getting better all the time Walt. Right, best get the money spent then before the lawyers take it all. What sort of airplane is it?”

“A Whitley”

“Excuse me? Is that a kinda P51?”

“Naw! It’s a limey bomber”

“Are you sure we couldn’t find a P51? They are the coolest airplane in the history of the universe”

“Naw, it’s a Whitley. They didn’t do too badly until the war started in 1941, then they got a bit outdated”

“Couldn’t we find a B17? That’s the coolest bomber airplane in the history of the universe”

“Sorry Hiram, a Whitley’s what I’ve located”

“And this is going to cost us five million apiece?”

“Yup”

“Er… Let me get back to you on that one Walt”

:rolleyes:

Moggy

That was absolutely priceless – many thanks for the tears of laughter!!
😉

Radar, what radar? It was a visual landing of course!