I would suggest your irony filter is in need of an upgrade 😉

The subtlety of performing a ‘Spitfire’ search on here was entirely understood thanks Moggy, not withstanding the previous threads on MK805 aren’t findable by using the forum search facility and had to found by using Google;)

Excellent work Dave, I can’t remember now, but did any of those St Athan AV-8Bs have sticks in?

Indeed good Dr, I think the search thingy’s still up the shute!
BTW not posting as a ‘been here before’, just that the original threads are worth reading through, nice to be reminded of the project again anyhow!:)

When the one wing is folded for maintenance, it requires the wing jury strut to be fitted, worth including in the diorama.

Always a possibility. Once upon a time there was an ‘Aeroplane’ forum!

That’s an interesting comment, did Aeroplane have, or ever consider a forum?
Also, am I the only one that it doesn’t occur to them (or that it doesn’t matter) that this forum is magazine/publisher owned?

Where would I go – hell on a handcart, my life would be empty and meaningless without this forum!
Like Tony, my other half wouldn’t miss it.

Seriously, I don’t bother with the other forums apart from AIX for my airfield fix.
Tony makes a good point though, sometimes I wonder how counter productive it can be sometimes, when time could be better spent tinkering, researching etc.

I suppose idealy it would be great to see XL629 housed in a building of some sort, but it sounds from Tonys post that it’s is being well looked after.

It’s one more version of a Lightning, and as much as us enthusiasts would like to see a trainer variant displayed as well, the RAFM cater to visitors that would rather see a greater spread of types. For instance there isn’t a Shackleton displayed within the main RAF Museums, the Valetta remains hidden away, is there even any RAF service Jaguar on display yet?
I dare say there are many inter-war types that need to be considered for representation.

I agree that twin stick variants of fighters get poor representation though, is there a Vampire T.11, Harrier T.4, standard Meteor T.7 on display or stored with the RAF Museum?

I’m not sure how the type is viewed within US aviation in general, but it should be remembered that from the types’ point of view the US was a tremendous success, what with the early Riddle orders (later used by Capitol & Zantop etc) and the last Argosy in commercial service with Duncan.
Shame the first aircraft (no prototype as such) can’t be saved, but as said difficult to save them all.