Anyone know if there are any plans to display it this year?
What they did brain surgery at the same time!?
My favorite expression is `S H I T Storm`.
Apologies if it offends anyone but hopefully in this mad world I can get away with it!
What they did brain surgery at the same time!?
My favorite expression is `S H I T Storm`.
Apologies if it offends anyone but hopefully in this mad world I can get away with it!
I like aircraft that are open to inspection. It’s also great for kids. I remember as a kid being fascinated peering into aircraft.
Painting the Hendon Wellington as a trainer and opening up I think is a mistake. I’ve always seen the Bomber Command hall as telling the story of
Bomber Command. It is impressive walking into the hall and being presented with the Lancaster. It is a moving experience walking through the bombed out
factory, listening to the Dambusters exhibit and hearing about the aircraft that didn’t return. I think the Battle and Wimpy add to that story.
They (Lancaster and Wellington) are the only two intact large WW2 bombers in the museum (the Halifax is a wreck). I think they tell the story best as intact Bombers.
I do like the idea of showing the aircraft under repair.
Interesting Subject header/comment Firebex, but your http link looks a bit suspicious with all those jumbled letters. I will not open it and suspect few others will. Care to elaborate on the subject and explain where the link will take us?
The OP posted a twitter link which resolves to this;
So will they remove the turrets to depict a trainer?
Watching the news report it shows the crater left by the disposed bomb and the damage it caused to the plastic water pipe.
Whoever laid the original pipe was lucky not to set it off!
So how viable are these old wartime bombs.
Presumably any energy in the fuse would have discharged long ago or is there potential that they could just go off?
I amazed that these things are not popping off all over the place with the amount of ordnance dropped here and in Europe.
Especially the chemical fused ones.
Get them to repair the blasted potholes in the roads.
Don’t you mean “give em the bloody shovel” !
Get them to repair the blasted potholes in the roads.
Don’t you mean “give em the bloody shovel” !
I was wondering why they kept the engines running for so long after returning to the hard stand. Could it be they boiled an engine?
Could have been steam venting. Running the engines to cool down perhaps?
I was there Saturday and it was hot.
Sunday possibly more cloud but hotter? I was in Toronto Sunday and boy it was a scorcher. Nice to see the Hurricane and Corsair fly over.
Do all Mosquito’s have a fighter stick? I thought they had a spectacle style yoke?
BTW what’s with the smoking Lanc engine at 13:59?
We have had an airworthy P47 in the UK for at least 30 years.
Wasn’t there a Blue and Red one. Then Fat Albert. Now Snafu. That’s not bad going really.
While I’m sad to see an aircraft leave they had to leave from somewhere to appear here 🙂
Looking forward to what might be replacing it. Mossie perhaps?
Didn’t the Gazelle do poorly in the Falklands war being vulnerable to ground fire?
IIRC the first casualty of the war was a Gazelle. Other helo’s being a lot more rugged.
Some nice air-to-air, besides the unusual subject:
I wonder if his suit has any practical applications?
Bet the military are interested. Can you imagine flying in the SAS with those!