Excellent news, and a real positive movement by the RAFM in opposition of some grim airframe condition reports.
Does anyone know where this will potentialy place their current civil/MoS trials Comet 1?

Lovely shot of the Alcock & Brown Phantom Dogman, brings back memories of the old Hasegawa (?) kit! I can just about recognise where it was taken at Saints.

Phantom FG.1 XV591 013 cockpit at Cosford

Does anyone know if this was the same Phantom cockpit that was seen on the Culdrose fiirepit area for a few years?

The demise of XV500 at St Athan,

Blimey there must be a good 15 years or so between those shots as well, and the main difference appears to be that the trailer has gone!

Some of XV500, the St Athan gate guard before it was scrapped in the summer of 2007.

£119! Hmm, inaccurate looking diecast or nice kit built for you (if you can’t build your own) at less than half the price – I know what I would prefer!:)

Corgi vs Airfix Stirling

You could commission someone to make the nice 1:72nd Airfix kit for you, and a competent modeller would produce a far better and finer detailed result than a diecast, with better quality finish and markings, a choice of individual aircraft, it would be much lighter, much cheaper, and delivered far more quickly than 12 months!
To finish to a good display standard from the box (comes with RAF ground kit as well),
Kit & paint £25 (can be found much cheaper, or kit supplied by you), build £40, total £55 – £65.
Or you could add detail like a vacform canopy and different decals, or convert to a Mk.V for say £80 total.

Certainly for the Corgi asking price you should be able to get a very finely detailled and nicely finished kit.
For £211 expect a scale rendition of the 1000 bomber raid!:eek:

So if anyone wants a decent model of a Stirling, Halifax, Lancaster, Hampden…

Six for twenty quid, misread the Asda online shopping blurb when ordering lol…

You thought you were getting twenty crackers for six quid?!:D

Airbrake, isn’t that the inlet for the fwd lift engine?;)
Must admit it all looks a bit ‘wrong’, especially when you see that amount of panels opening before take-off.
Still it will probably all look routine fairly (sometime?) soon.

It shouldn’t be in Historic though, I think we’ve stretched things a bit when we’ve discussed Tornados and Jaguars!:eek: