…..The “Beehive” Terminal at Gatwick (As I am sure most of you know?) – once the main terminal for the airport….

http://www.airliners.net/photo/-/-/0311728/L/

Tillerman.

If clicking on ‘Large’ won’t show you the large photo, try clicking on the photo itself. Worked for me.

Tillerman.

Don’t forget this preserved workhorse:

http://www.flugzeugbilder.de/show.php?id=45455

The Russians seem to have a more artistic way of mounting planes (and missiles and rockets), so that they look like they are flying or taking off.

I’ve seen other posts of them but sorry can’t supply any links right now.

Just putting a plane on a couple of sticks doesn’t look too good!

Bri 😎

I agree with you on the artistic element. They go to great lengths to fabricate a nice plinth, and sometimes completely over the top.
Browse this site for birds on poles in Russia:

http://www.aviamonuments.ru/

Tillerman.

I’m just relaxing from a day’s work, and I’m in the mood for songs wich give me a good feeling:

“unofficial national anthem” of Australia: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

I wish I could play like this: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uLZcaRXcU

And the last piece of music is one that brings a lump in my throat. It is Musica Poëtica from Carl Orff. It was used in the film Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973). There is no soundtrack of that movie available, but I found these two examples on youtube:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ft43lNx37L0 (ignore the video, just listen)

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ee02EUUzDwE

Tillerman.

Picture of the siren:

http://www.luchtoorlog.be/ju87b_f2.htm (Scroll down to 14th pic)

Caption says: “on this Stuka the siren is removed”.

Tillerman.

My granny took me once a week to the local toy shop to buy an Airfix kit. I glued a lot of them together, from the Gladiator to the Hawker P.1127, Liberator, Viscount, Bristol Freighter, Sikorsky S-61 etc, and also vehicles like the Sherman, Cromwell, Scammell Tank Transporter, Halftrack, 88mm cannon with personnell carrier, Long Tom etc. In the early stages I didn’t paint anything, later I took more care about detail. For window glass I used object glasses normally used for under the microscope. A bit tricky to break down to the right size, but in the end it gave a very nice result.

The aircraft were later nearly all destroyed by kids who came over and wanted to “play” with them. But I still have a lot of the vehicles somewhere in a box.

Tillerman.

You can have exactly the same discussion with the same arguments about owning a Porsche or any other car which can go faster than 200 kph…. Its simply not allowed to go that fast, except for some autobahns in Germany. And if you feel the need to drive really fast you can go to a circuit, pay some money and make a few rounds at speed, instead of putting other motorists in danger on the motorway. Just as there is a difference between offroading on an off-road course and the 4×4 idiots who dig up the countryside when they think nobody is looking at them.

Part of the fun in owning such an automobile is knowing that it can do something an Astra can’t. And if someone thinks that’s not a good enough reason: bad luck. It is my money.

Tillerman.

PS I just ordered an Epsom Green Defender 90 Td5 (secondhand) 😀 😀 😀