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Is there a reason why you’ve stuck the nose gear back on off centre?!:confused:

And more significant as many more Lancaster crews would have spent time on it.

Getting back to the Herc, I’m surprised it’s a Hercules C.3 being preserved, it taking up more room, however more pleased aswel as they seem peculiarly British to me – and yes I do know that there are other stretched Lockheed C-130 versions!
Does anyone know if this airframe carries any particular history?

I haven’t seen this mentioned here yet, Lightnings, Buccs and Hunters up for sale.

http://www.go-dove.com/event-15794?lcid=en

12 days ago, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=111014, link in thread as link above.

It was mentioned on Radio 2 this morning aswel, and although I wouldn’t be able to afford the experience anytime soon I didn’t think the price of the package was actually that bad.

It was considered, just abbreviated by the joys of using the Mrs’ iPad. Sorry!

I tried that for the first time yesterday with the Gannet thread… didn’t go very well:o

Agreed this is an interesting thread.
It would be good to hear more about Chox’s information that Chadwick wasn’t around at the begining of the 698 design period due to illness, it seems to fly in the face of populor writings on the subject, but also suggests that he might have been absent during Lincoln, Shackleton, & Tudor development periods.

From my experience this forum has a massive British bias, as WIX has an equivalent US bias, in both cases despite input from all over the world.

I thought we might have more considered input from you, I was questioning the generalised nationalistic inference that Brits seem to take the oppurtunity to knock American ideas by a large body of members here (which isn’t the cas as far as I can see), not the bias of the forum which is quite understandably heavily British – it being a British website and all.

You see, GrahamSimons… there is a large body of posters here that believe the Americans “borrowed” or stole everything from someone else… and anyone who suggests that the Americans had original ideas is treated with skepticism… and if you dare suggest a Brit got an idea from an American, you will be treated “less-than-gently”.

My personnal feeling is that we aren’t all that shallow or stupid and that the same level of challange and questioning would have occured if the two companies were based in the same country or completey different ones than the UK or US.