an aircraft that once went to war!

Sounds pretty good to me.

Definitions seem fine – but a personal nit pick, could the definition exclude all those fake Japanese aircraft converted from T6s etc. for Tora Tora Tora. Love the movie but those conversion aren’t really warbirds are they.

Flying on one engine?

Can the likes of a B-17 or a lancaster fly on one engine for a period of time say to get home from a bombing mission?

It’s shown in films with a battered B-17 shot to bits on one engine limping home.

I think for extended periods gravity begins to exert its much vaunted reputation. 😀

However any long distance flying on one engine would depend very much on what engine was still functioning for aerodynamic reasons including the condition of the airframe, and even then I suspect the trajectory would be in a steadily increasing earthward direction.

I regret to say I think you are right, Creaking Door. Although there have been a handful of suggestions but those and it seems the majority of ideas posters have had seem to have been made already.

Is that our challenge to come up with a story in which the Brits overcome and which has not been filmed for the big or small screen?

The last Ashes series? 😀

I suppose the truly horrible thing is that films like Titanic and Pearl Harbour actually makes lots of money so we stuck with this level of crap. Just watched that last 6 minutes of the original and it is simply done yet absolutely moving.

Any competent person can create a copy of something – and that is what most “restored” aircraft are. New parts and new paint all tied to the original by tenuous links like a data plate or a few token original parts.

But creating copies is not the goal of historians nor of legitimate museums – the goal is understanding the original and that can only be done through studying original items.

Conservation is about preserving what we have of an artefact in a stable condition not recreating it using modern made parts which are combined with the original bits in a seamless whole. Conserved items therefore are the preferred artefacts for serious researchers to study. Copies i.e. – that is repaired or restored items bought back to the appearance of their original state are not preferred by researchers for obvious reasons except to offer a broad overview.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the last type of object – it provides a quickly understood artefact for the public and those with amateur interests. And if they are done well provide suitable incentives for those with the curiousity to go further and become formally qualified researchers and authors in whatever field the artefacts represent.

The two states can exist side by side without difficulty or confusion and they mutually complement each other. There is and should be no difficulty with that unless adherents of either side try to start silly turf wars.

What a load of bureaucratic BS.

Is Key run by middle level public servants?