Comrade Beermat checking in.. 😉

Actually I don’t blame this Conservative Government in particular for any of this, but a bit of state intervention might be useful at this point, something which ideology prevents them from doing.

Oddly enough this ideological bar on countering market forces does not apply to the financial sector, as per Bruce and Charlie’s observations, nor to the housing market, where money is being pumped in at the bottom by Government.

Yes, the SS span is conceivably greater, as the tip has a curve to it 🙂 That could even be true if the ‘tip section’ began a little further inboard.

The quoted web article has a number of doubtful points to it, such as the PRU Wingco not realising that reduced tankage meant reduced range until after he’d taken delivery of the aircraft..

The link would have done 🙂 As above, Morgan and Shackady pages 63-67 are more authoritative, and include a GA that may be useful. (All the M&S GA’s are from primary sources). It does seem to indicate that it was only really the tips, manufactured as a separate unit, that were different about the wing in terms of profile. Also ref. the Alf Price chapter, also mentioned before.

Very odd. The description has that Halifax chair as being from Prague. I am guessing that Aero Vochody was the first aircraft manufacturer the seller could think of.

*Rhyming slang. The difference between me losing at bingo (I don’t really play, those old dears are too damn fast for me) and a real merchant banker is that when actual bankers f*ck up it magically transforms into everyone else’s debt.. to the banks! And no worries, the bankers old school chum the chancellor can pay it off, by taking it from independence funds for the disabled.

All in it together. Orwell would have been proud of that one.

Ah, brain failure. Yes, I remember the thread on here now. There’s an excellent Daily Mail article from 2013 with the headline claiming it had been raised, that experts had thought the Sunderland lost to history, that it’s structure was perfectly preserved and in bits, that historians think it is one of the most important discoveries of the century, and are now ‘desperate to piece it together’ – apparently starting by matching the propeller with pictures of Sunderlands to find out… um.. something very important and experty.

Surprised I forgot such a masterpiece.

Still, if the whole operation is 50k, that’s not too bad as a wholly appropriate centrepiece exhibit. I was just questioning it as the cost of the survey alone. Not that I am qualified to do so, it just seemed a high figure to ask for. We are only looking for 40k for the Whirlwind! Bas, are you out there?

Hmm. A £50,000 survey? Mind you, it’s not the most reliable sounding of reports, calling it ‘the T9044’ and suggesting there’s only one surviving ‘tail gun’ in the world.

Does anyone know the real story with this? Interesting.