Hi Steve,
First and foremost,welcome aboard! 🙂
Glad to hear the Vanguard is still being run,I’ve yet to see her in action.I’d be grateful if you’d post the engine-run/taxi dates as Brooklands is on my list of ‘must see’ museums this year and it would be great to see the Vanguard run.
Just out of interest,what will the aircraft’s movement over to the car park mean-will she still be as regularly run over there?
Cool pics Andrew,thnaks for sharing.:cool:
I believe the P38 that TFC allegedly purchased is now up for sale again,so it looks unlikely that it will ever cross the pond.Needless to say I hope I’m wrong.
“Most of all I want to see everything fly away that flew in.”
I’ll second Snapper’s comments.
“FireflyAS.6 Strathallan 1977”
Which one was this and what’s become of it??
Curses here too!! I’d be up for it any other time,but I’m going to be away up north over this coming weekend. 🙁
Ah yes,I’d forgotten about the Hunter.Don’t think he enjoyed that too much though. 😀
Don’t forget JC has also had a trip around the pylons at Reno in the back seat of a P51…
I know it’s a bit ‘lighter’ than most of the stuff that usually appears at Legends,but it would be nice to see the Friedkin’s Grumman J2F Duck amphibious floatplane. 🙂
“Yes,Mogs but you wouldn’t turn down a chance to go “hands on” like Clarkson did!! Ungrateful t****r! “
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If you mean his F15 ride,I think he did take the controls for a bit.He performed a couple of rolls atleast IIRC.
I believe the NASM’s Horten IX is missing it’s outer wings, which is probably one reason why it’s not been placed on public display sooner.
I think the general consensus was that eating something out of the gutter outside the museum was better than eating in it! 😀
“All things considered though it is Junk and it would be better served a the local pub in a can.”
Unfortunately the RAF agreed with your point of view at the end of the ’70’s and sold them off to commercial operators.As a demonstration of how wrong they were,they were leasing the aircraft back from these commercial operators just a few months later when various odd-sized bits of equipment needed flying down to the south Atlantic when the Falklands war broke out!! Doh! :rolleyes:
Wrenchbender,
The Belfast was a very good aircraft which could carry (and still carries) a very useful payload.Sadly,only ten were ever built so Shorts never went to the trouble of building jigs for everything and alot of bits were built by hand.This made each aircraft unique,so that one set of cowlings wouldn’t fit another aircraft etc,so I can understand why the mechanics thought it was a pig.
So,in response to your criticism,it’s a good aircraft in every respect except for the problems with interchanging of parts.
I believe Airfix re-issued thier Rotodyne kit a couple of years ago,so it might not be too hard to get hold of.
On the subject of Spitfires landing on carriers,there were a relatively small number of Mk.V’s which were fitted with arrester hooks,but didn’t have the folding wings.They were used by the FAA to train future Seafire pilots.
One of these,BL628,survives today in Australia and is currently under restoration to airworthy condition in stock Mk.V configuration.
Lovely pics Andrew,thanks for sharing.I like the Wellington shots particularly.:cool:
Did you get any shots of the Vanguard/Merchantman by any chance?I caught a fleeting glimpse of it through the trees from a train a few weeks ago and she looked to be in good shape-any ideas how often they do engine runs??