What is it with people that they feel the need to tap an airplane to see what it feels like! Shame to see her unprotected like that! If you had the same aircraft on display in the UK or North America, you wouldn’t have been able to get within 5 feet of it.

does touching count ? have to say I like to feel the rivets etc – but then again when I was last at the FAA museum there was a 7 or 8 year old girl swinging the Fulmar rudder around…….:mad:

as for me, sorry, am a saddo but if close enough I can resist a gentle touch:(

We live in an increasingly feral country with feral children, being raised by feral parents.

The police lack the time and manpower to tackle issues like this, and even if they did, what what a court do?

Make them clear it up, no, course not, that would infringe their human rights naturally and bless ’em, their right to destroy is what is paramount.

What we need, is a human rights charter, page one, line one, needs to state that if you want to take its protection, then you must first honour everybodies rights, not just your own. Had the teenage party from hell last week-end next door. Cars on drive, fence driven over, bottles thrown at my house, abused yelled out of the loft windows and pushed by a half cut lout with four friends he had as back up. Police didn’t come when called, I sat up all night until they were done in case anything was hurled at my house. But as one of them said, “its our right to have a good time and you can’t stop me”.

I think when Peter left, as he said at the age of 5, his family should have turned out the lights and switched us off. To be fair the parents have been great since they came back, then the mother says they have had issues with the brat since she was 13 with booze. Dumb move leaving her alone then love…..

Rant over, I’m going to play with my ‘planes.

I’ve often thought about that – the argument I’ve often seen is that the “singular” actions were harder to quantify, getting back into a burning aircraft is bravery of the highest order. Surely, somewhere in the 5 years that followed there were actions equally brave. Malta for example, Greece, other campaigns against high odds.

Possibly the oldest and most complete hurricane is Peter Vachers as it is a earlyish mk1 and is a BofB veteran.

Funny you mention the prototype Hurricane as that has never been found it apparently just disappeared over the years never to be see again (holy grail of warbirds?).

curlyboy

tell me more… am away from my books etc, I thought it was scrapped at Brooklands? – what do we know ? thanks…

There was a C4 programme a while back about the duke of kent, it mentioned the alleged affairs etc and the crash, I’m open to conspiracy theories (but with the WWW there are far too many) and from what I know (which is not a lot admit) I think there is something amiss – maybe something as simple as a paperwork error at take off !

not just e-bay

several times I’ve looked on Amazon, seen a cost and thought 😮

followed one of their “new and used” links and saved some cash.

when did that arrive????:diablo: presume you mean the F-4 🙂

Roger Smith.

D’oh – F-104…… still, I mean it when I say these guys are so nice if I’d have asked he have tossed me the keys and let me take it for a spin so long as I bought it back with a full tank of fuel and no dents !

isn’t it in part something about soaking up the power as well – as well as weight etc. Typhoons did in some cases have 4 bladed props, but they had to be careful with the COG and radiator armour – on some images you can see a warning on the radiator “armoured”

Corsair had 3 massive blades at the start, but went to 4 with a bigger engine,