What is the best place for selling aviation books? I’ve got a loft full and a mortgage that rivals the national debt.

Rgds Cking

The pair held by the RAFM are in store at Stafford, or they were when I visited the reserve collection in October 2008.

I’d better leg it over there to see them!

Rgds Cking

Well, the Marquis of Anglesey’s (Marquis: “By God, I’ve lost my leg!” Wellington: “BY God, sir, so you have!”) artificial leg is on display at Plas Menai, so there’s precedent. And the Wellcome Trust have all sorts of gruesome things on display in London. Odd, certainly, but there’s far more ghoulish out there.

Adrian

The Wellcome trust???? More like the b****r off trust!!
Nothing like that is my cup of tea. The fluffy bunny display at Chester Zoo is nice though.:D

Rgds Cking(The soft)

I was at RAE Farnborough from 1978 to 1985 in Aircraft department. They did not operate a flying Gnat during that time.

Rgds Cking

Not a term but still has it’s roots at sea. The wing tip navigation lights are red on the left, green on the right as on ships.

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Other similar terms used for aircraft : Buttock Lines (BL), Waterlines (WL), Bulkheads (although this only really applies to the early bi-planes) and Stringers.

Boeing use all those terms and they say it’s because Boeing built seaplanes first.
Bulkhead is used on all aircraft.
Bilge, scupper are used and I have heard the tearm “Voyage report” being used by the aircrew.

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P.S. The Seaking’s u/c were mounted on sponson’s!!!

guy who blew canberra canopies died,nobody else could do it as well as him

He must have had a hell of a set of lungs on him!;)

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I would also recomend the Boscombe apprenticship. I did mine at the late lamented RAE Farnborough. The Boscombe apprenticship was ALMOST as good;)
Guys in my year went all over. One went into F1, one to The Shuttleworth collection, one is at Boscombe and one went onto university.
I left and joined the airlines and STILL get a buzz every time I go near an aircraft!

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