Good idea, hate to say it but I probably would be good with that!
I was thinking of picking the Fairey Gannet, air operations with 814 RN Sqn Jan-Sept 1959, but just seems a bit of a dry subject.

Anyone know what was on the roll of film or the photos, That Peter Cook was after?..

The episode opens with a high profile politician (who we don’t see) having an intimate moment with a girl in the garden, this is photographed by paparazzi type Martin Trout (P Cook). The whole episode hinges on his, and our, belief that he has somehow swapped this film with one of Victors (“Oi, Supermans’ grandad!”) and then has to chase him across the Algarve only to find near the end that he actually still had the film on him all along. After processing the pictures do end up in the Meldrews hands.

My wife has had a headache every night for 20yrs or more 😀

I had assumed that you had known her for longer than that!:D

I thought we were helping you Newforest:)

As Forester says Britannia production was conducted only at the Brabazon sheds, Filton and Shorts Queens Island, Belfast.
I believe the later was to do with giving much needed work to the N.Ireland factory (along with EE Canberras) as they were struggling to put any of their own designs into large scale production, also Bristol had share holdings in Shorts.
Shorts built 30 Brits, mainly the RAF versions, 15 C.1s and 3 C.2s and 7 302/305s originally destined for US airlines.
The loss of the American contracts was a big concern for Shorts back then.
This and the Bristol involvement is probably how the whole Britannic/Belfast project ended up with shorts, again as mentioned by Gordy it shared the Britannias’ wing, tailplanes, and fin/rudder assembly.

The Canadair CL-28 CP-107 Argus was based on the Brit, but was configured for maritime patrol. It had a new unpressurised fuselage which featured a large search radar, two weapons bays, different cockpit layout with fwd look out position, it was powered by Wright R-3350 Turbo Compound piston engines.
It could considered a greater extent of what Lockheed did to the Electra to produce the P-3 Orion.
I have heard it from Shackleton crews of the period that they regarded the Argus as the most sophisticated anti-sub aircraft of the late 1950s -early ’60s.

The Canadair CL-44 (and CC-106 Yukon) was also based on the Britannia but with many improvements including the flightdeck area, having a lengthened and improved fuselage, and powered by RR Tynes. Some also featured the swing open rear fuseslage and tail and looks to have been a more practical version of the original Bristol design. The Super Guppy was an outsized fuselage version.

Hard to pick one, but the one where he returns from a hospital appointment too meet his wife at the Nissan main dealers where they have just had their number plate removed (it was P155 OLE!), he’s tired so decides to have a quick kip in the back of what he thinks is his car as his missus is late.
We then see him just waking up on the back seat and he notices the car’s moving, he then stares in disbelief at the empty drivers position as the camera zooms out and reveals the car to be on the top of a car transporter truck heading up the motorway.

Lovely Shack shots, thanks!:)

I would like to have been at that meeting a few years back where someone thought that the internet and forums would be a great idea!

The RN still has the Dummy Deck at one of the RNAS’s along with at least a carrier load of retired Sea Harriers to practice on.

The School of Flight Deck Operations At Culdrose, but isn’t related to catapault or arrester cables training, it teaches handlers how to move aircraft and fight fires on flightdecks.