However, are they replicas, reproduction or late-production model?

The 6 cars were

a) Built by the same manufacture (albeit 40 odd years later)
b) They used 6 allocated but un-built construction data plates

oh, so like those *long lost* Cobra chassis’s that Shelby found after he had forgotten about them sitting at his ranch in Texas for 40 years? 😉

I like how he has the safety rope tied off so that if he falls he becomes a pendulum until such time as the tree trunk arrests his momentum 🙂

Duxford

My name for the yellow flouro vest is ‘Harry Potter’s cloak of invincibility’ as you can’t be harmed if wearing one.
As for hard hats they must be worn backwards and perched on top of a woolly hat.

Always known them as Wally Bibs 🙂

It looks like they are blowing the fire bottle(s). Wonder if that was intentional?

Surely they would have blown the fire bottles before they even landed?
The issue now is that the white powder stuff is horrendously corrosive when it gets wet. The fire bottles we fit are halon or some sort of halon substitute, not dry powder.

II’m not sure Boeing “ruined” McDD. The end of the line had come for their commercial production.

Boeing bought MCDD for one reason, to get the C17 contract… & if Northrop get the B3 contract expect to see Boeing swallow up that company too.