And if I stay far enough away from yous guys, you won’t be able to tell which engine is mounted.
Ed

😀

Never mind the engine, just post a picture wearing the wrong roundels and watch the fur fly… They’re not called the roundel police for nothing.

Seriously, it sounds like a great project. Keep us posted, when you aren’t busy with the spanners, please!

Adrian

Perhaps we should re-title this thread “Straight from the horse’s mouth”? With B17Sam and Cotteswold about, we only need Jules Horowitz for a full set!

Sam, if you haven’t already, I think Jules Horowitz might be the sort of person you’d talk to…

Adrian

Excuse the ignorance (they do say you should do what you are good at…), but can I assume that the sections looking like the deep fat fryers at the chip shop are the bomb bays? I realise that the He111 had vertical storage of bombs, but I’m fairly sure that’s the first time I’ve seen the bays themselves in the flesh. I’d always assumed that there was more space, and some kind of arrangement for hanging them from the roof of the bomb bay…

Adrian

Call the Police, they will contact EOD who will deal with it properly.

I’d add the word “eventually” into that sentence!

Way back in ’93 when I found an SC50 on the Kent coast, the EOD phone operator asked a series of circular questions, then rang off with a promise to ring back. The Coastguard and I sat and watched the tide cover it (in EODs defence they’d have had to break a lot of traffic laws to get there before the tde covered it – and besides, they were the silly beggars who’d left it there!) before the Coastguard looked at his watch and said “You know what?… Three o’clock kick-off on a Sunday!”

Adrian

It’s in for a total re-paint – strip to bare metal and out in the same scheme. I believe the owner wasn’t happy with the patchwork appearance, particularly on the undersides of the wings.

Tom.

Which just goes to show how much I know… 😮

Adrian

…and Dave is prowling the garages of Essex right now armed with a club with a nail in it, looking for this!:eek:

Seriously, give him £45,000 and he could build the rest of the Sea Hornet – what’s the going rate for a Merlin these days? Not that much, surely, or at least not without oodles of paperwork?

Adrian