If you don’t like it, get writing, and get on the editor’s case! If the idea is good enough, you should get in – have a butchers at this: https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/second-hand/how-to-buy-and-use-ko…
The similarity between the author’s name and my screen name is, of course, pure coincidence.
Thanks, Baz – first I’d heard of them!
I’ve never seen a turbo Dak – can’t help feeling it won’t sound as good! Back when oi were a lot younger ( circa 1995) there was one that trundled into Stansted late at night, I was told it was bringing mail from Schiphol, but in summer I wouldn’t shut my window until I’d heard it go by.
I’ll be quite honest – that was a guess to try and keep the thread near the top.
The casing looks like a magneto (see pic), but that handle on it has me beat – has it been re-used to make something else post-war?

Nearly three times a big a gap between it’s first flight and today as there was between then and the Wright Brothers – also December 17th.
Even the Buchon loves the piece – just look at the big happy grin!
I am merely restating Churchill’s view. He was far more the man on the spot than you or I, and hardly a “revisionist”. Much like WW1, WW2’s result was fixed the moment the USA entered the war.
Another forum I use had an outbreak of posts that were just copies of previous posts – if the text is identical, I bet it’s that happening here.
Please excuse me, Natasha – this is very presumptious, but bear with me!
If you feel your writing is up to it, why not (attempt to?) get in touch with Key and see whether they’d run an article on your grandfather? Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that.
If it sounds unlikely that they’d be interested in a cold approach, take a shufti at this: https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/second-hand/how-to-buy-and-use-ko… – the similarity between the author’s name and my screen name is no coincidence, you can compare his likeness with my avatar if you doubt. I have no connection to Key other than this account, so I can’t offer any practical advice on persuading them, but just sowing the seed in your mind.
Possibly the Vimy and it’s derivatives? I recall that one of Alcock and Brown had to climb out on the wing during their transatlantic flight to chip ice off the gauges.
The only time I’ve ever seen it fly was a straight hop or two down the runway, and the tale told over the tannoy of the last time it had flown a circuit when it had squeaked through a gap in the trees and vanished, to everyone’s consternation, before appearing in similar fashion after a very long interval at the other end of the airfield, having hedge-hopped all the way round! How true it was I don’t know, but a good yarn.
Wow! That’s astonishing – you could keep the aeromodellers busy for months pixel-peeping that! At least three different sets of radar ariels for a start, and I wasn’t even looking for those!
I love the stereoypical RAF pilot showing the US Army press corps the Typhoon (and the rather well fed chap trying to climb in it needing a bunk-up, and trying to sit with his water bottle behind him), and the “Reserved for…” notice on the Storch. Note also that the chap with the camera round his neck is toting a German Contax, which I’m prepared to bet fell off a passing Nazi.
On the bright side, looks like nothing that chucking a sh*tload of greenbacks at it can’t fix.
Some big Bristols there!