Cheers Geoff,
Top notch info as always. 😎

“Did you spot the huge clanger dropped by the film’s makers in the above list? 92 sqdn Spitfires carrying 501 sqdn codes!!!”

Erm,shouldn’t that be 242Sqn Hurricanes carrying 501Sqn’s ‘SD- ‘ codes?? Any ideas why they painted the Hurri’s up with those markings instead of the correct ‘LE- ‘ codes?

As far as I know,the AF Concordes had different tyres anyway, BA have tyres made by Dunlop,and AF by a French company,so it’s possible that BA’s tyres wouldn’t have behaved in the same way in a similar incident.

Well,my vote has to go the F.53 at Tangmere.It’s had it’s wings and fin chopped and rejoined,but otehr than that it’s in amazing nick.You could eat yer dinner off the undercarriage bays!

Hi Der,
Aeroplane published a pic of the two Cyprus Shacks just last month,and they are not a pretty sight.I can’t imagine that anything will come of them now,except perhaps dog food tins as you suggest…:(

“Lancman
that opening titles score sounds flippin’ wonderful through your home cinema speakers!!! “

It certainly does-sounds even better coming through the Hi-Fi!I can recommend the movie soundtrack CD for anyone who enjoyed the movie’s score,and it also has a good mix of the old swing music which appears only briefly in the film.Got a copy for under a tenner-bargain!

“When you smile at me,I hear gypsy violins,when u dance with me,I’m in heaven…”

Hi Bruce,
That’s the opposite of what I’d heard.My understanding of it is that the re-spar of the Lanc was made possible by the fact that the same job had been done on the RAF’s Shack AEW.2’s in the early 80’s.This would mean that the Shacks were good for a few decades of flying.That’s what I’ve heard anyway…