Finally having twigged on to what the shadow-argueres are on about…. I must eat my words to a point. The shadow does match and I must admit that it appears to be a mix of oil and shadoiw on the engine nacelle, while the stabiliser is pure shadow.

Bloody unlucky camera angle….

Nasty Oil leak without a doubt The dark areas are too localised and dark in comparison to the other areas of shadow. The stabiliser streak is slightly wider than that of the trailing edge of the wing suggesting that the trail has a divergent nature.

Please remember that this wasn’t a complete aircraft – in fact it was little more than a collection of fuselage frames and structural items. Everything which can be robbed, has been. It would be almost impossible to replace the missing items until the GR4(?) comes out of service, at which point you may as well get one of those as a complete airframe.

There are a couple of F3’s saved already, and there will be opportunity to get the GR when it’s old and knackered… (sorry – older and knackered-er)

STEM is working up north too. Several of our large colleges have Science centres which also includes aeronautical engineering. The Applied science courses are incredibly popular and have good success rates. Our former nation of engineers is returning slowly to its former glory – the main issue is lack of engineering jobs rather than lack of engineering education…….

agreed. early halibag.