I’m pushing to try to make that happen – but we will just have to see.

I think Firebird was referring to what the guys from WW2 would do to fix a broken engine rather than Sally B’s situation.
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He was (in response to Gliderspits’s comments), although he was being slightly sarcastic – in the nicest possible way :).

Presumably Gliderspit was thinking more about the pressure of war and poor weather conditions under which many B-17 engines must have been changed on exposed East Anglian airfields in WWII – not an enviably task. As Firebird said, their only advantage over modern day counterparts was their ability to drive over to their units engine store and simply sign out a brand new factory built replacement!

I hope the yak 3 is flying at legends i think it looks fantastic.

Its booked (and the pilot is checked out) so as far as I know it will be.

I have therefore dropped an e-mail to the Station Historian to see if the gallery can be restored.

I do hope they can.

There were a number of variations in the shade of green used by the various manufacturers and also the extent to which it was used. For example Westland loved the stuff and painted, for example, much more extensive internal Spitfire/Seafire areas with it compared to Supermarine/CBAF built aircraft.

So as usual – no hard and fast rules!

Great day for spotting today

0845 , Mustang heading east

Crikey – some people like to get up early for their warbird ‘fix’!

Thanks for posting the pics Y11F – I saw the cockpit of this aircraft when it was still in the workshop at Eye – an absolute masterpeice & 100% stock!

Hi Janie
Because I thought you had something to do with W.C.S

She does – but only by marriage 🙂