Rocketeer,
many thanks for that information sir and the kind words from both yourself and HP57.

At the risk of appearing a little cheeky, would it be possible to ask you for the dimension of hole pitch on the straps please.

Thanking you for your time to reply

Dave

wilco…make take a day or so…but I get there in the end!!

😮 😮 😮

Indeed he has a fantastic talent…here is the promised Sutton Harness photo The widest strap is 2 and 1/8th inch. The other is 1 and 5/16ths wide

Oh really? Hmmm … maybe you´re right. It seems I have been deceived by my picture (No.2).

Nice model….the tail wheel on the Mk 2 is a little bigger and wider and it has a link leg as opposed to the simple fork/damper system on the Mk1.

Typhoon Panel 2003 CockpitFest

Looks a bit like the Hurricane wreckage in the Battle of Britain Hall at Hendon

Yep….Hurricane, Hendon (BoB hall), pilot was Maffett (whose was sadly killed when his chute failed), recovered by Geoff Rayner, so presume he is in a phot

Tony,

I’m gonna pop in this Sunday on my return from Brooklands

Any news Dave?

I find it interesting that here we are bemoaning the waste of airframes here whilst others are slagging off an honest individual who tried to save a Vulcan elsewhere! Weird irony there!

Mark12’s comments about likening the Vulcan to attitudes about the Radlett Halifax are very true. I saw a copy of cockpit which said the Halifax was ‘too far gone’ etc etc. Where there is a will there is a way.

Back to this laudible thread, Dave did you manage to get any modern shots of Frome?

Regards to those with passion about saving old aircraft, even the lost causes. A clever guy (cleverer than me) said that saving an aircraft is the act of preservation because you buy the airframe some time. The Vulcan chap has done exactly that.