My God, those pictures, they’re incredible! Gives hope that there could be more examples of WW2 aircraft in this condition elsewhere.

Get well soon. Best thing about recovering from a serious illness is that you are allowed to treat yourself rotten whilst on that road to recovery :-).

it’s an insane amount of money! But then again, if there is someone out there wanting to buy an SR-71 fin…their options are limited!

Ingenious!! They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and slipper tanks into sidecars

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Havilland-Mosquito-Drop-Tank-Watsonian-Side-Car-Body-BSA-AJS-Panther-etc-/230757583829?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item35ba394bd5

Excellent set of photos, thanks for posting

Man, the film crew (or rather the producers of the programme) must be absolutely gutted they weren’t on hand to film the action.

Never seen that before, it is a handsome beast!

In some respects I can see where John Green is coming from. Possibly…

If I’ve understood him right, there could in theory have been a situation where a number of equally qualified candidates stood before the panel. All able to do the job. They could pick any one and know they’d succeed. So what advanced one candidate beyond the other? An additional layer of inherent PR ‘Win’ that the female candidate brought with them, that’s what.

Let’s say that collection of equally qualified candidates also contained a muslim pilot. Again we have someone who, if selected, would bring an additional PR benefit to the Red Arrows/RAF/armed forces in general.

These examples are very different to positive discrimination where a better candidate is turned down to allow an under-represented member of society into the position.