What livery did the 3 Mosquitos wear before they were incinerated in a hangar fire at Idris? They were (as far as I am aware) being used by Airwork, or Hunting Clan, or similar, to map Libya prior to the major oil explorations. The problem was that quite a lot of Libya moves from day-to-day! A set of barchans (sand-dunes) at one location photographed on one day can be very much different on the next day, or week, or month!
HTH
Resmoroh

Save BBMF?

Don’t know if this sort of thing ever does any good, but it might be worth a try. At least we can say we tried!

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BBMFCuts/

HTH
Resmoroh

Was not the preferred landing approach configuration for the Britannia to be in a 3 degree nose-down attitude? Don’t know the details!
HTH
Resmoroh

Graham, your penultimate para says it all. I regret that the democratic majority does NOT determine what ‘they’ want, or how ‘they’ want to live. Our Parliament is merely a charade which we have to vote for every few years. The political parties kow-tow to the Banks and top Businesses in order to get those organisations to give them money for their nonsensical Westminster flummery. Persons “of very little brain” inhabit The Palace of Westminster and think themselves important. Intellectual cretins!! Museums (of the aviation sort – or any other) are a very minor problem.
Aviation enthusiasts will, eventually, have to learn to come into the real world where, like most of us, we are only ‘also rans’. If you look at it rationally then the bonuses about to be paid to just a few Bankers would pay for all the improvements at Hendon, Cosford, Bruntingthorpe, East Midlands, etc, etc, etc. Will it happen? NO!
Major political occurrences happen about every 200 years – or so! Would be nice to have another French Revolution – but this time in UK. I could think of a number of aviation Big-Wigs that I would like to see in the Tumbrels – and I know the music!
HTH (but, as I have had to say many times on this Forum, it won’t)
Resmoroh

exmpa,
Brilliant. Yr last sentence says it all. Careers have risen (or fallen!!) on making the right executive decision at the right time. No point in various “Johnny-come-latelys” trying to re-define the decision making process. They weren’t there at the time!!!
And, at the other end of the problems there were a significant number of occasions when the Airbridge (either ASI>Stanley, or vice versa) was delicately “bending the rules” – but only inside (just!!!!) proven safety limits!!
HTH
Resmoroh

Don’t know about the museum stuff, but the Memorial should either be in the care of the Norfolk County Archaeological Sites & Monuments Record (SMR), or they should know where it is.
This, however, is not foolproof. The Memorial on the lawn outside the WW2 Flying Training Command HQ at Shinfield Park, Reading, mysteriously disappeared once the developers got access to the site after the Met Office College had vacated it. Do I detect a pattern emerging here? Perhaps the developers don’t want the cost of re-locating/looking-after it, or (as is often the case) the Local Authority SMR doesn’t want to know anything after the Romans?!!!!!!!!!!!
Not a lot of help – but you might strike lucky!
HTH
Resmoroh

There is very, very, little real medical danger to the casual visitor to an airshow, cockpitfest, etc, from glancing for a few moments at one of these radioactive instruments. There is a very, very, slight increase in any supposed medical danger to those who may explain, or demonstrate, the purpose(s) of the cockpit and/or its instrumentation – and over a period of time.
My interest in this is from the very “heavy” end of the radioactive spectrum. I was, for a time, the Met Adviser to the UK Home Office UKWMO, and to the NATO Civil Defence Committee.
The purpose, I would think, of all these HSE Rules, and whatever agreements that have been reached by, say, BAPC (and others), with whoever, is not to safeguard the medical health of a very few people. The cost to the National Health Service of a very few WW2 radioactive instrument induced cancers is far, far, less than the cost of the Ministries and Quangos designed to prevent that from happening! If we all did absolutely everything in totally obeying The Rules with regard to the miniscule supposed dangers from radioactive instruments then there would be nothing for the Radioactive Instrument departments of Ministries/Quangos to do – would there? Those departments would then have to be abolished! And we can’t have that can we? This problem (as with many others that cause a similar furore) needs to be looked at through the other end of the telescope if only to get a sense of proportion.
HTH
Resmoroh

The quick answer is – “I don’t know”! But it does look very similar to the Aircraft Aneroid Barometer Mk IIB illustrated in “Even The Birds Were Walking” by Kington & Rackliffe (Tempus, 2000, ISBN 075242016X). The photo is in b/w but you can see a differentiation in the letters ‘M’, ‘B’, and ‘S’ which would confirm death-ray paint! The authors state that this model “was developed for high-altitude aircraft, such as the pressurised Spitfires“. 150 mb is about 45,000 feet. Your average Halifax might be a bit pushed to get up there!!!!! “Normal” Met Recce a/c used the Mk I
HTH
Resmoroh