A tad chilly on a beach in October. 😀

Actually the inlaws went to Jersey in October and had a warm and very sunny week, more so than they experienced in Wales all summer!
Taking a chance though.

Seriously I would concur with others about Malta, cheap, just right in October temp and weather wise, plus you have the beautiful Valetta city, though the big sandy beach is at the opposite end of the island.

Oh well it didn’t die in vain:D

Nice work Deryck, when you look at drawings and cutaways the Hastings intermediate wing section definitely looks more substantial.
The bit that still confuses me (dosen’t take much!) is that With the Halifax wing the outer wing break line is just inboard of the outer engines with the flaps extending across that joint to be partly housed in the outboard wing sections, whereas on the Hastings the wing joint is outboard of the outboard engines and at the natural flap to aileron joint.
Therefore the Hastings intermediate section span must be greater anyway to accommodate the outboard engine and spacing, but in theory the outer wings would be shorter because of that.
The change in leading edge sweepback wouldn’t necessarily mean a major change in wing design, but it does suggest that the intermediate section is extended over the amount needed just to hang the engine on and result in the increased span.

Be interesting to know how Elvington got around all these detail differences.

PS I have done some illustrations showing the differing wing breaks, but my scanner’s gone bang! This link shows the Halifax breakdown quite nicely though, http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1942/1942%20-%200871.html?search=halifax%20wing

If anyone gets the chance to get any more measurements (esp the Hastings for me) between engines and wing breaks etc it would be great to see them here.

Nice picture and story Autostick, and welcome:)

That sounds good, be interesting to find out more about these lovely cockpits.:)

Is that the Valiant cockpit that was at Bruntingthorpe, or is that still there… not been to Brunt for ages…. (bad as I’m local!)

How many Valiant cockpits are in existence?

Am I right to believe the only whole aircraft is at Cosford now (ex-Hendon)?

Going off an earlier post, the one at Brunty is now in Scotland, Inverness I believe.

Four

Yes

Demobbed (http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=1163) be your friend!;)

The problematic thing is that she has said she would like to go somewhere hot and with a beach, however, I am not a very good beach person (I can’t stand just sitting/lying on a beach all day!), so I am thinking of combining a city/beach style trip.

Thanks in advance.:)

Just ignore the headline and you will thank me later for saving you money, http://londoniscool.com/is-this-the-worst-beach-in-the-world!

Apart from the Australian event and besides some other limited US & overseas interest it does seem to be one of those peculiarly British hobbies:)
Although I entirely get why cockpits are a great way of collecting and showing bits of aeroplane, it would be interesting to know where & how it all started really.
I’m guessing it originally stemmed from the forces training and exhibition cockpit sections of old?

Nice couple of pictures of the seldom seen Valiant B.2:)