How much cream do you reckon you could whip in one go with that thing on the front? Can you get a dough hook as well?

Adrian (where did I leave those tablets?)

Blohm und Voss Bv141, old bean

http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/bv141/bv141.htm

The aircraft that made Chris Wren (of “Oddentification” fame) allegedly comment that the Germans were now building his cartoons!

Adrian

From Mechanic FOD to Pilot FOD

Mechanic FODs are another recurrent accident.. everything started with the Sabre and her nice air intake!

Earlier than that, old boy (twirls end of handlebar ‘tache he doesn’t have), and it was a pilot! 1942-3 at a guess.

The Gloster F.9/40 (and we all know what that became) was being run up by a mechanic when he noticed out of the corner of his eye the pilot, Michael Daunt, suddenly vanish from his position near the leading edge of the wing. He immediately cut the throttles and found that Daunt had been sucked into one intake 😮 – thankfully without going far enough in to do any damage. Screens were promptly produced for the intakes, nicknamed “Dauntstoppers”!

Source of anecdote – Daunt’s obit. in a well-known aviation magazine beginning with F!

In his defence, I doubt anyone had realised then just how much suck a jet intake had – but he learnt fast!

I remember visiting DX a while back, just after the Lancaster had been finished, and noticing that someone had driven something into the port tail fin – there was a most interesting scrunched patch about six inches long in the bottom of the lovely new paintwork. Jonathon, ‘oo was it? I think we should be told!

The last time I was there I was admiring a Spitfire parked in one of the hangars, bumbling along behind a group, and found myself on the wrong side of the barriers – the group were being given a guided tour and I’d accidentally followed them through the gap! I’d been looking at the Spit, not the barrier and just followed mindlessly. The guide’s speed of uptake and swift, polite, throwing out technique were a marvel to behold!

Adrian

Probably being thick here but…

In the seventh photo down from Halton, what is that twin behind the Meteor? Unless it’s a Buckmaster I can’t place it…

Adrian

Exactly. Hence why I am intrigued that it is apparently being restored to fly. I would expect it to look somewhat like the Hurricane I saw being dug out of a field in Essex in 1978 – think the resemblance of mash to a potato and you’ve got about the right condition.

It may be that I am being cynical (I often am). But I am intrigued, at least partly because there doesn’t seem to be any info out there about what they started with…

Adrian

…sort of ‘stook’ in a time warp.

Mark

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! That’s so bad even I’d disown it!

Adrian