I would be happy to help any Anson I project in the research and drawings/material gathering phase.

It would be quite a proposition, an airworthy MkI – cheaper to operate than a Blenheim, but able to sit alongside it as equally representative of an era, a genuine warbird, and now able to help pay for itself by carrying passengers. A sure-fire hit flying out of Duxford..

..but stumbling blocks exist. It appears that not ALL the drawings for the Mk.I survived. This would surely make things difficult with the CAA? And if we are being authentic, that one-piece spar is going to be quite a challenge, as Anne said.

I like the way the report said it was ‘created’ by the artist. Presuming they mean the Bloodhound, not the South Bank.

Somewhat unedifying – Webpilot was presenting some much-needed actual data, to show that the situation was not as black-and-white as some would like to claim to support their world view. In fact it was done refute my unfounded assumption about the thoughts of ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’, and very effective it was too in reminding one to assume nothing.

However, the response to these actual facts seems to be to nit-pick about terminology in an attempt to undermine the person presenting them (when it is not even that person’s terminology), and then going off on some irrelevant tangent about something that person didn’t mention! It is the pedant’s equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears, closing your eyes, and going ‘la la la, can’t hear you’ when presented facts don’t agree with your prejudices. I am not going to add to this thread any more, it is, in the classic words of Graham Chapman, “too silly”.

Creaking Door.. fair point.

I know that Webpilot can speak for himself, but just so you know that others can see the fallacy of that dig.. the distinction was between types of camps in terms of function, not morality

Ah, yes. Thanks.