First one looks like a P51 Mustang wheel and the second a Spit ?

I hit a rabbit the other day with the truck….didnt kill it outright cos it was thrahing around in the road. Well, me being soft hearted, couldnt drive off and let it get flattened by someone else so I stopped, got the tyre lever from behind the rear seat and went back to finish it off.
Now, being a responsible type of driver I’d pulled over to the side of the road, so was a bit miffed when this guy pulls up behind the truck beeping his horn.
Out he gets and comes straight towards me asking what I was doing (bl**dy obvious what I was about to do really !). He then proceeds to tell me to leave the rabbit alone, that he’s a vet on the way home from his practice in Salisbury and that he’d look after it !!!!!. Fair enough says I, and he then goes to the back of his car and gets his vets bag (or whatever else they call it ?) and goes over to rabbit….which is still convulsing and thrashing about, making horrible noises….and starts to examine it. He then got big spray can of something and proceeded to spray the poor rabbit all over….which was having a real bad day by hit by a truck and now some looney is spraying his fur all over.

I kid you not, not quite 10 seconds latem, this rabbit….which was in a bit of a mess…stopped convulsing, sat up, looked around for a few seconds then legged it across the road and into the hedgerow !!!

I was gobsmacked and asked this supposed vet what he’d just used…..

“Hair restorer” !!!

teehee

Thanks mate, I intend to !!.

I’ve blown up a section of a cockpit shot I took in Fuddy Duddy and you can see that they’ve moved the undercart switch up on top of the dash. Looks like its got a half guard like the one in your piccies. Best place to put where both pilots can see whats happening. !

i add a couple of shots I took of the Douglas Built B17 which is the ex Bolivian B17 cp 891 – She is now at March Field in California – got to se her in January

Note the clip which gaurds the landing gear switch on the top right of the flat panel – to raise the gear you have to pull the clip up to flick the switch – amazing that such a little switch can control such a big gear . I definetely know that Lockheed made a modification on a similar type of gaurd on their B17’s produced in the War

Loved the shots Gary -liked your comment bout the plane rumbling on behind you !- hope you have fun at Oshkosh

with out doubt the strangest thing I’ve seen was this guy at Oshkosh last year.

Nice afternoon, a little snooze….all the time a USMC AV8B was doing its hovering act not quite a few hundred yards in front of him…..his snores could be heard over the noise of the Harrier !!!!!! (I’ve deleted his face details cos I’d hate to think he would be recognised at any other airshow !!!!)

Quite the most outstanding act I’ve ever witnessed….truly awseome power !!!!!