Lovely photos, but I have always been niggled about the tacky colourscheme on that Hunter! Totally tasteless in my opinion!

Does anybody else share my view or is it just me?

Absolutely agree with you GB and been thinking it ever since I first saw it, however it’s his plane and he can do what he wants with it I guess.

That is interesting? the wing span specifications of both types certainly suggest the Hastings is larger.

Halifax I, II, early III = 31.74m span
Halifax some III, VI, VII, C.VIII and Halton = 34.2m span
The extra span is made up in the longer rounded wingtips.
Hastings = 34.4m
So not a lot of difference in published sources and dependant on the reliability of the info out there, which dosen’t seem hugely so.
It seems to me that any extension is obviously outboard of the undercarriage.

Theseus would have been ideal in size and power for the Ambassador, the larger Proteus was available aswel.
I’m guessing a Mamba powered variant would have had to have been a four engined type (like the A.W.55 Apollo), even then I would think power was bit on the low side.
Obviously Ken knows alot more, but it seems that not enough urgency was given to turbo-prop developmemt in those crucial early years, it’s cited extra complexity and the comparitive ready availability of piston engines seems to have in the end been a negative route to have followed

Brilliant insight to what it is like to fly in the Vixen P-K, and much appreciated that you have posted it here.:)
There seems to be a perception that because it wasn’t a supersonic type in normal operational service that it isn’t capable of the power and speed that it has in the transonic regime. It’s great that it still performs this way (as the DACT training with typhoons proved not long ago) and it must be a joy to be part of.
Do you experience any sense of claustrophobia in the coal hole?

You did well to get those pics Richard, same thing happened in the afternoon last year!
Like you say, with Cosford at least there are very interesting hangar displays to take in.

I don’t know enough about them, but it sounds to me like he could be talking about one of those Culver Q/PQ-8 aircraft, they were a remote piloted target drone of the era, but could also be flown by pilot. Believe some went on to civil use after the war.

You and the subject of Saints has just reminded me that yesterday I had to chase a fox through a disused bit of land immediately to the south of West Orchard. It was very lumpy and bumpy so checked the area out on those ’45-’46 verts and there are dismembered aircraft on it, think it’s the same area as those Albermarles etc in a photo somewhere.

Back to wellychopters!:o