not much news on the official site, will the Lanc be wearing new colours next year? And any progress on PZ865?

No, due to the financial crisis it will only be flying in primer. :diablo:

Personally, not as a collector of aircraft parts, but of antique firearms I applaud any effort to expose fakes being passed off as real. If they are labelled as replicas then I don’t have a problem.

Secret Spitfires?

Or: SECRET ; Spitfires

Yep that’s the right reading of the title.

I looked at the title and thought, who is going to be the first to mention, Stork, shoes, Churchill etc….. Why am I not surprised ?

The beauty of the internet is that we can have discussions that go down hill faster than any other medium. 😀

That 10 engined Lancaster would have been a bit of a handful, while the Botha wasn’t so much a rare species but a suicidal species – the lemming of the air. 😀

Thanks, folk. I had forgotten how long the gestation period was for the Corsair. As to being obsolescent – I am not decrying its effectiveness, but fabric wings were obsolescent by 1938, never mind later. Spitfire, Bf109, etc.
Mike

In 1945 the Germans were using wooden rudders on the 109 and wooden flaps on the FW190. Cheap and quick because the whole aircraft lasted about 5 minutes.

Purgatory? Purgatory? I’m only in purgatory? What a relief.

No you did your purgatory time when you when banned from this site because of an administrative error. 😀

As for the warm place, going on the behaviour of the true believers, I am inclined to think it would be a better place than the destination they are aiming for. :dev2:

At first such schemes seem to provide a solution,however I have a feeling that like the Hydra there is always another head waiting to take over. …

Very true – there is a strange tendency for some people to think that Nazism would have collapsed immediately without Hitler. Nazism had much deeper cultural roots extending back into the early 19th century and as we see in Italy, Spain, Romania, etc. in the 1920s and 30s Fascism was very much a popular political movement because to many from all stratas in the society it combined elements of socialism with its social benefits like employment, health care etc. and a strident message that a person was part of a chosen elite. Hitler was one successful exponent of it as was Mussolini and Franco. There were plenty of supporters and contenders eager to take their place if they were removed. These movements were not one man bands or small groups who had seized power against the majority will. They represented the majority will and for a few years in the late 30s and early 40s we very nearly lost democracy.