Hopefully AA Classic Flight’s Proctor G-AKIU will be airborne again soon.

Roger Smith.

Why, when talking about preserving large aircraft (such as the Nimrod), does everyone seem to assume it has to be put back into one piece straightaway?

Why can’t the RAFMuseum create a (relatively) inexpensive deep-store facility where Nimrod, Hercules, VC-10, Chinook, etc. can be stored safely indoors in a dismantled state until such time as the funds might become available to put them on display.

It must surely be possible to find an existing hangar (on a site with a long-term future!) that could be insulated, sealed and given a modicum of climate clontrol to reduce deterioration.

Roger Smith.

RST Logbook facsimile for sale.

If anyone’s interested I’ve been looking through Ian Allan/Midland Counties 2nd hand catalogue that dropped through my letterbox today.

Included is a facsimile copy of RST’s logbook – a limited edition published by After The Battle c.2000 – for £30.

I have no connection with this – it’s just for info.

Roger Smith.

……PS kg per cu metre has this old fool totally bewildered.

You aint alone :confused::confused:

Roger Smith.

Nice pictures Cestrian. Is the camo’ scheme accurate do you know?

Roger Smith.

Just a thought. If repainting is planned would it be an idea to work on the fin and rudder whilst in the current attitude – the’re a lot nearer the ground like that!

Roger Smith.

Suggest RBL sell the £11,000 trailer for as much as they can get for it and offer the replica to the builder’s for the balance???

Roger Smith.

When I was a kid in 1969, I used to go to an Army Surplus shop with my Dad, I remember looking up and seeing about 11 silver helmets in a line on a shelf.

They were RAF MK1A’S!!! Should have bought the lot, wish I could go back in time to that shop, Riddeys in Coventry – anyone remember it?

“Ah yes I remember it well…” as Maurice Chevalier sang
Riddy’s (I don’t think there was a ‘e’ in the name) would have been on Foleshill Road near junction with Eagle Street at that time – what an Aladdin’s Cave !!

1969 would have been not long after I bought a pair of Hurricane wheels/tyres from them – 10 bob each IIRC. I was an apprentice at nearby Dunlop and was able to look up the AH No. to find out what they were off before buying for the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society (of which I was Secretary).

Sorry, nostalgic recollection over.

Roger Smith.