Excellent lit up pics, how do you maintain the electrics live like that?

Yes fuel would be main concern in crash landing, the bombs wouldn’t even be fuzed for transit flight.

There were plans to build a replica S5 again fairly recently, wonder if that is still on the go?

Of general interest re the Vulcans and Victors and Ascension.
This is a link to a great set of pictures taken of RAF types on Ascension, at the time of the Falklands build up, and serves as a real ‘of the moment’ time piece, Bob Shackleton must have been lucky to have been able to get some of these pics.
It’s really worth taking the time to navigate around the various pages and ignore the boats! http://www.naval-history.net/FpxAAscension2.htm

If anybody here has something to contribute feel free to contact us.

Can’t contribute unfortunately, but do you have anymore pics of Harrier XZ993 (besides the great one on your site) or any of the arctic painted Harriers at all?

Also never noticed before that the canopies on Magisters and Zephyrs open differently.!

A lot of deck landing types have sliding canopies, and even types based on land based aircraft tend to have this built into them. During the ’40s and ’60s it seemed that it was favoured to have at least the capability to take off and land with the canopy slid back to allow better vis and quicker egress for when things turned nasty. However when you look back through old deck take off pics, it seems seldom used as a practice.

I like the Zephyr aswel saw one at Fairford once, surely a great contender as a private plaything!

Yes remember that well, and the Burnelli claims, oops sliding off topic again!

…the piece of wood blocking the end of the fuselage where the tail guns should be, with two bright green feet painted on it and “The End”.

Also saves breaking the rear guns off during those tedious model dusting down sessions:D