Incredible, be interesting to know if anyone took pictures or videos of the aircraft from the cliffs and beaches!

Great site, especially the ‘walk around’ section for me, thanks.

5. How many of you would be complaining if they had acquired a repro Stirling or Fury etc, through a similar trade ?.

How many of us are complaining:confused:

Any answers to my earlier questions in post #31?

I think if you can get hold of the excellent Aeroclub decal set, you can do pretty much any Shackleton from it, finding it now might be hard though.
In fact to make the Mr.2 from the standard Frog/Revell MR.3 kit, you will ideally need the Aeroclub conversion set.

Absolutely agree with Jims opening post, you can think what you like about the money spent, the organisation itself, and the media reportage, but the atheletes themselves were brilliant, and really do instill a sense of pride.
It’s great to see people working very hard and obtaining their dream on the world stage.
The Brownlee brothers were for me superb, and really showed that down to earth ‘we can do this’ spirit.

Re the money spent, sometimes its nice to know that sums can still be spent to organise a once in a life time event to uplift the majority of a nation, but with little tangible reward beyond happiness and promoting sports for a new generation.

I know I’d rather look at bits of metal and cut open turbines, than studying fluid dynamics – looking at a running gas turbine would definitely have got me hooked.

I wonder what happens to baby helicopter (B0 105 etc) engines when they are flight expired?

I think it’s a pair of gloves Baz – or am I being too bleedin obvious!:D

Your knowledge of British Monarchy seemed extremely limited, was just making sure all bases were covered!

Eric Idle was brilliant at the do, I thought:)