24 hours and no-one close – have I beaten the might of the Flypast Forum? 😎

Seriously, anyone still playing? Clues could be dropped if I am bribed suitably…

Adrian

Is that ‘A drain’?

Ba-Boom! With my typing, I am often Adrain!

No, it is an airfield (of sorts), and with at least one interesting footnote in history. The timer is set, let’s see how long it takes…

Adrian

My pics of what remained of Z2186 on Carnedd Dafydd in summer 1993. Apologies for the quality – they were taken with my old Boots 226X camera, which was quite astonishingly cr@p!

We only found the one wing section, plus a few bits blown into crevices by the wind, up on the Black Ladders before the cloud started rolling over the ridge and we decided discretion was the better part of valour. So I have no idea what else might have been up there at that date. However it had fairly obviously been turned over by persons unknown, as it had previously rested in a depression.

Adrian

Left-hand pic on the second post could be Eye…

Adrian

Indeed. There are substantial remains of an aircraft there, part of whose crew was rounded up by a relation of mine. I contacted the museum trustees last year, dropping the name of the Forum member (and person heavily connected to another aviation museum) who had given me the appropriate contact details asking if I could obtain a photograph to add into my family history, either through them or taking one myself. I offered to make a donation in return, pay for costs incurred etc – laid it on with a trowel.

Nothing. Silence. No reply. Rudeness is their prerogative – given that I had enclosed an SAE, I think they are very rude. 😡

Adrian

Raymond Baxter has died at the age of 84, the BBC has just announced. Rest In Peace.

God rest him. Too young to remember him on Tomorrow’s World, but the Spitfire documentary with him telling of when he first sat in the cockpit was glorious.

Rest in peace, old chap.

Adrian

Well, I have to say that most of that does look quite promising – he knows and understands the story for starters. I’m just wondering how the hell anyone has made a full-size Lancaster model!

Adrian