Anyone who has been a passenger with my missus driving will wish they were in a car with passenger activated brakes!

Brilliant, and quite subtle, British humour!:)

The old chap next door to me was in the Home Guard, or real ‘Dads Army’, while he was in his early 20s as he was deemed medically unfit for regular Army (I always wondered about the younger characters in the series until then), some of his tales make the ones in the series seem normal!

Also check that you have trimmed the aircraft for level flight.
Ie VC-10 requires large amount of tail up trim for take-off and then you trim it back for normal flight.

The basic idea first came about during early WWII.
The Ctesiphon Hut was basically constructed by erecting a hessian tent then covering it in a thin coating of cement and water, after the internal tent structure was removed it became a hard self supporting building. They had an odd ‘soft’ appearance to them, but had proper windows and doors, and were about Nissen hut sized.
At least one of these survived at RAF Wethersfield in to the late 1980s, where they where used as a guardroom, workshops, and stores.

At last, a thread where Tornado64’s posts read like proper English!

Agree with above, the panel is pictured the right way around aswel because a couple of the instrument holes have the extra cutouts for adjustment knobs on the correct side as we look at it, and matches up with intstalled panels on aircraft.
If the screws are countersunk the wrong way that is quite a minor problem for a panel build up.

It should be mentioned that around 16,500 British and Indian troops and supporters were killed by Afgan fighters in the January 1842 retreat, I think that is what Kev is getting at.

Excellent pics, thanks for posting them, looks like a Scimitar behind the Lightning on its side, but odd colour?