That’s the one! Just a pity that the entire second half of the video is him being put in the ambulance, and the bit that should on the end of him looking at the head-sized hole in the Cub’s wing the next day is missing – a bit on the sick side. Mind, looking at the comments, there’s some rum old people posting them…

Adrian

Just another thing, and I know they mean well, but can you really take some of these re-enactors seriously. Some of them look as if they are involved in a Monty Python sketch, I saw one bloke in a US Paratroop uniform that made me think that if C-47’s were occupied by people like him, then it would never have got off the ground, perhaps next year, I’ll dig some of my stuff out, get in for nothing and stand about with bored indifference, I may be an old git but at least I’m slim.

Especially for you, Pete!

http://www.geocities.com/bigreenactors/

Adrian

Blimey, Snapper, not like you to sit on the fence like that!

Adrian

I occasionally use a pre-WW1 Kodak.

Wonder how many digital cameras will still be usable when they are over 90?

Adrian
(reactionary old fart)

Lindy – I have a feeling that the days of the Barracuda being extinct are decidely numbered .

Probably much to the chagrin of anyone who flew them…

Adrian

(by the way, I’d like to see the Double Mamba-engined Wyvern – imagine watching that lot starting up! Do I recall reading that a major reason for the Goofer’s Gallery on carriers being phased out was the sheer volume of shrapnel generated if a Wyvern clouted the deck?)

Thanks for all the suggestions and pointers. I don’t think the “blob” is lead.
Tim

The patina suggests perhaps bronze? Might that be a clue? (He says, clutching at a passing straw)

Adrian

FWIW, I have spent far too much time looking at vintage machinery and I don’t recognise it as anything agricultural.

*waits to be proved horribly wrong*

Adrian