Wander along where the boats are and see what debris they’ve bought up recently – biggest I ever saw was 30 feet of B17 wing spar…

Adrian

I’m suprised the PC brigade hasn’t started having a pop at these yet as they might deem them as ‘offensive to some’. :rolleyes:

That’s half the point, dear boy! The first campaign of ads for the Tube in London was stomped on by the Advertising Standards Agency (? I think!) and Shepherd Neame gained so much publicity that way that they decided it was the way to go and kept creating ads they knew would be banned from the Tube!

Irn Bru did a set at the same time that got a lot of publicity, despite being passed. I particularly enjoyed the picture of the cow with the slogan “When I’m a burger, I want to be washed down with Irn Bru”. Pity the stuff is ghastly…

Adrian

Ah, I’d wondered why no noise from your direction after the Flypast short! Obviously too busy having fun in wokkawokkas… Looks like a fun day, and hope you got some useful bits out of that lot.

Just out of interest, what on earth is going on in the 4th picture? The chap in the foreground looks as though he has a cricket bat in his rucksack while someone else on the Chinook’s ramp appears to be being very travelsick!

Adrian

(shall we let them have their thread back now?)

Rough ol’ job,but somebody’s gotta do it,I guess 😉
Adrian
T.Moth G-AOJK went over Didcot heading North approx 1230hrs today.
Colin

Note to self: must see optician – could have sworn it was a G-AA** reg! Cheers Colin, sounds – and looks – like the beastie!

ADrian

Please bother. 🙂

I’m really pushed at work at the moment but does anybody else recall the story of the Brit fighter pilot who caused the death of his brother-in-law by panicking a German bomber over Wales?

Moggy

Yes. It’s in “Reach for the Sky”. I think that tells you all you need to know…

Adrian

Sit back and enjoy watching the progress. I personally am looking forward to that first flight when John Romain wrestles with that hand pump undercarriage and we see if it rides up and down synchronously, as we have read in so many BoB Spitfire biographies. 🙂
Mark

Well, I’m certainly not going to complain about another Spitfire! Though JR’s knuckles may. Just call me an embittered cynical old git. I won’t be offended – I know it’s true!

Adrian

OK, Satanic wig on… :diablo:

“Plus unlike some types you can actually sell it and get a return on the job!”

Does this mean, then, that history should only record what is cool and profitable?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against Spitfires – I’m very fond of them – but I find it depressing that the bottom line is always the money. Is a rotting hulk that provides b-all in the way of parts to create something that rather a lot of exist already (perhaps not Mk1s, but there are at least a couple of those still about) really so much better than coming up with something else that we HAVEN’T seen in the air before? Look at the Typhoon fuselage in this month’s Flypast – what if that had been a Spitfire fuselage with a nice data plate in it? Surely that would have been flying years ago as a whole Spitfire?

Unfortunately I don’t think there is any way round this, is there? – money is all.

Of course having recently discovered that a possible new career path means the choice between doing something I enjoy or having a living wage might just be making me incredibly cynical about money at the moment…

Adrian

*edit* Paul posted while I was rabbiting on – 😀 , and pretty much my point!