There’s also a new book about Bristol Aircraft by Peter March titled ‘Boxkite to Concorde’ that’s due out at any time soon – a few more details can be found here. Not sure whether it covers Prefabs!! :confused:

I wasn’t planning on paying someone else to do it…..;)

I was thinking of the detail contained in some of the photo captions i.e. “Lancaster exhausts manufactured from stainless steel for ….”

I also know that a couple of years ago they made stainless steel ‘cans’ that went on ‘Night Reaper’ at Coningsby; as featured in several ‘prestigious publications!’ 😉

You might be able to source more details via this organisation http://www.thegrowler.org.uk/ and they are normally very helpful at putting appeals in their newsletter.

WR977 has a small ‘honorary’ Brian the snail on the fuselage, but this is in memory of the late Ken Lindsay who was one of the stalwarts of the aircraft’s restoration in the1990s. WR977’s ‘Brian’ matches the 8 Squadron artwork, albeit smaller than that worn on theAEW.2s and was a badge worn by Ken whilst working at NAM, because everyone teased him for ‘allegedly’ being a slow mover!

I might have some pictures somewhere if it helps! :confused:

‘Brian’ on WR977

Here’s the picture, which is posted in Ken’s memory. It’s a bit difficult to capture without a good set of steps!

I’m reminded of an amusing aspect to Ken’s allegedly ‘snail’ like speed of movement. I once took a picture looking down Hangar 1 at Newark from off the Phantom procedures trainer. The picture included several visitors and Ken – the only figure that was blurred i.e. moving in the picture was Ken!! :rolleyes:

A question to the Mods – what happens when my photo account is full? Can my account be reactivated or reset in some way or do I have to remove pictures?? :confused:

Don’t believe that there are any spare panels at NAM, but I know that you’d be more than welcome to take measurements from VZ608! 🙂

It’s unlikely that I will be going over this week so I will struggle to take any pictures myself but I’ll see if I can get anyone else to sort something out.

Just another thought; in Anon’s pictures the aircraft seems to have one panel already fixed, would this mirror the other panel for size and design? :confused:

I think that the only place you’ll see TSR.2s and SR.71s are museums – so surely ‘historic’ is highly appropriate! 🙂