just havin fun mate!

I was just pulling yer leg Mr.Setter.I have nothing but thre utmost respect and admiration for Australia and her people.I luv my Aussie friends.fairdinkum! Tim.

Still have 3 to go

So when can we expect the other 3 merlins to be humming along too?

The Reno shack is about as much fun as the DC-7 that I saw Clay Lacy race in the Mojave unlimited race as a kid in 1970.OH MY GOD!

I’d pay a rather handsome amount just to see and hear a real Sabre roar! Wow! what a rush that would be! Tim

no harm intended

Hello again my friends,
I was looking to stir things up a bit with my prior post on this thread but I wasnt looking to anger nor upset(well not too upset)anybody.If I have done so then I am sorry and will now go and stand in the corner till all cools down.I’ll behave from now on,I promise. P.S. Mr.Firebird,your pointing out how BMW bought Rover to thieve needed technology and then spit out the unwanted bits reminds me of an identical situation that killed another part of the British car industry.The players that time were a pathetic,obese,american auto company with the initials of G.M.The victim was a tiny, technology rich English concern named Lotus.Anybody remember them?Lets see,G.M. needed a modern aluminum (non push rod,non cast iron,non made in mexico)multi valve ,dohc,V-8 engine to finally place the corvette out of the 1970’s/60’s/50’s?and into the same decade more or less, that the European and Japanese Makers had been for many moons.The fact that Lotus were also world leaders in Active suspensions was just icing on the cake.They ate what they wanted(for way too little money)and spit out the bones.Leaving the carcass to be purchased by various interests and remaining Mr.Chapmans creation in name only.I too saw what the Elan should have been every time I saw a Mazda MX-5/Miata .end of thread 4 me.I’m thru preaching.(who would have ever imagined F-1 without Lotus!)

Wheres Mr.Ed Maloney?

OK guys,I know that he’s a Yank and so he might not be as obvious to you on that side of the pond but on this side ,I feel that there is no one who compares to Mr. Ed Maloney ,the founder of the Planes of Fame air museum at Chino airport in Chino,California.He has singlehandedly saved a large number of aircraft that exist nowhere else in the world and others almost nowhere else.Such as The Northrup N-9M,The worlds only flying Northrup flying wing,He located and aquired the only 2 P-26’s in existence,one of which went to the U.S.airforce museum.The only 100% original flying A6m zero with its original Sakae radial engine.The largest collection of surviving japanese WWII aircraft in the world.Other rarities include the RyanFireball,BellP-59,Douglas Skystreak,Messerschmitt Me-262,He 162 and the list goes on and on and on.He collected most of these planes when most people considered them nothing but junk.He had to move them and stash them in numerous locations over the years as his financial situation worsened or improved, until he was able to locate them to Chino airport,where they are now appreciated for the priceless objects that they are.Mr. Maloney is one of my heros and I feel that the Warbird community owes him a big thank you for his determination and efforts . Tim.

Go Melvin,GO!

Mr Hiscock,
Go man,GO! all the best to you in your quest to get her airborne.Dont let anyone pressure into doing anything before you or the Rearwin are ready.I wish you luck and I look forward to reading about your success when you do finally fly her.
Good luck and God speed! Tim.

WOW! Just look at all of that aluminum scrap!think of how many beer cans that could be turned into! Also,I agree that the last Photo looks alot like some pics that I have seen of Yamamoto’s wrecksite.Isnt the Yamamoto Betty located in New Guinea? Bouganville?If he was there then it could bethe same one.