Apologies:o
Great to see this cockpit section preserved, how complete is the flight deck?
Is Spey Bay a place or the Spey bay at Kinloss, seems a bit of a coincidence?

Shame something like a Nimrod cockpit didn’t make its way down to St Mawgan in Cornwall to commemorate the types’ important association with that airfield.

I suppose the presence of the tail planes and fin might present certain logistical difficulties to a collector who wants to take his or her ‘rear end’ to a display.

Yes, I was offered a special marks Phantom tail, as a remove it imediately from the site and you can have it deal, I was dead excited until I turned up and tried dragging it away by myself!:eek:

Looks like ‘Getty Images’ to me.

It’s the Short S.35 Shetland I, DX166, of 1944. Stirling canopy unrelated but similar looking maybe.
There was also the civilian S.40 Shetland II, G-AGVD.

It doesn’t fit then.

I’m sure I’ve seen reference to testing of the rotor head of the Fairey Gyrodyne (ie conventional, not the jet tipped version) on the back of a 1/4 truck, likely testing area would have been White Waltham, would that fit at all?

Helping out recently with a future Model I borrowed an Original Seafang and Spiteful Manual (bet you haven’t seen many of those) and that was interesting reading as lots of it just said not yet written LOL. Photocopied bits for Trumpeter Models. 😀

Now I’m interested!:)

I know little about bombs, just quickly posted a link and pics of what is usually described as B-29 carrying two Tall Boys (which they appear to be to my eyes), I must admit that I thought Blockbusters were ‘cookies’?
I don’t struggle with the weight issue as the B-29 is quoted as being able to lift 22,000Ibs, but the positioning so far aft on the wings surprises me.

Re op Ruby, Wiki says this,
“Beginning in March 1946, Project Ruby was a joint, Anglo–American project to investigate the use of penetration bombs against heavily–protected, concrete targets. The target selected was the Valentin submarine pens, that had been rendered unusable and abandoned since 617 Squadron’s attack on 27 March 1945. Grand Slams were carried by Lancasters from No. 15 Squadron RAF and US Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Around 140 sorties were flown, testing a range of different bombs.”