I am into water colour and other forms of art but to me this is not what it is all about, it is a total waste of restorable airframes that in another fifty years or so will only be a metallic oxide patch in the sand.
This ranks alongside the pile of bricks that cost a certain London Museum 60,000 quid some years ago, also the floating haystacks on a lake in Shropshire, the metal cages stuffed full of crushed car bodies on a traffic island in Telford, and all supposedly forms of art.

Then there is the Heinkel 177, four DB605 geared in pairs driving two humungus props……

I wonder how long before one shows up in the local charity shop? when I see garbage like that I could quite willingly and without the least bit of regret throttle the living daylights out of the plonker who designed it……

Hi,
to get the Cosford TSR2 into the air would need a new wing, when it was delivered to Cosford it was brought in through Cosford crossroads down past the main base entrance, then they found it wouldnt go under the railway bridge.
Only option was to remove a wingtip and graft it back on afterward, this was explained to me by Roy Martin who was curator of the museum when we formed the Aerospace Museum Society in the late 1970’s.

Saw a flying model of that babe a while back with a 12 foot wing span, looked beautiful in the air,

thats one problem with the Harlech P38, there is still approximately 50 gallons of fuel in its tanks and as it is on the coast of a National Park it poses a big threat to wildlife,

regards.

When 617 sqn attacked the Tirpitz with ‘Tallboys’ at least two of the aircraft that flew to the staging post in northern Russia put down on a marsh thinking it was an airfield, are these aircraft still there laying in the fresh water marsh?,