This link may not work as it’s to Pinterest…
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/737183032735085804/
Link to my search results:
https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=finnish+gladiator&…
I don’t know the source of the image but it claims to be Swedish Volunteer Force in, yes, you got it, Finland, 1940.
I’d certainly be interested.
TBH, Tony, I can’t imagine anyone gets into historic aircraft – except maybe sales brokers – to make money, if there’s cash anywhere it’ll soon vanish up a plane.
Highly amused by the Raleigh Chopper behind the fuselage in the first pic!
Wow, what a stunning model! I can see from the background that the deux ponts is a favourite of yours – did you build the model, or is it a period example?
Fascinating to see aircraft that are virtually unknown on this side of La Manche.
Single seat Spitfire over Kidlington this morning.
ETA – probably ML407 again, not a single-seater.
If those details are out of date I’m pretty sure that he sells in person at Old Warden events – whether that’s helpful to you or not I can’t say.
ML407 doing pleasure flights at Kidlington (AKA London Oxford airport) – and, while we were awaiting her return, a high-flying Beech 18 G-BKGM.
Nice pic – a touch of Photoshop on that HAS on the left and it could be wartime colour stock!
Off the top of my head, I think it’s the remains of the Southend museum one – I’m sure it’s been covered here before – and some of the ex-BAe Lancaster that was damaged at Woodford in the 1987 storm.
That could very easily have been very nasty indeed. Ouch!
Suffolk Iron Foundry, Stowmarket – I guess in wartime, mowers weren’t considered a strategic necessity… well, not until Agent Orange, anyway.
Definitely not Atco, propstrike – logo looked more like this at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atco_(British_mower_company)
(yes, I know you were being silly!)
I would assume two were built as that’s how many stood at Abingdon, plus at least one nose section used in a crash scene (by the entrance to Abingdon airshow).
Don’t forget that in the early 90s Aeroplane Monthly had coverage on recovered relics (I particularly remember a colour centre spread on the Fw189) that knocked spots off Flypast – it wasn’t always the best! Brenzett museum put me onto that, so must have been 1993.
You are ahead of me, Jeepman!