Hornby track has, like their locos, improved out of all recognition, though its still not quite up to Peco standards.

With my railway enthusiast ‘hat’ on, the loco was indeed a London Midland and Scottish Railway Garratt class loco. They actually had a single boiler supplying steam to two chassis units.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Garratt
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1366&bih=552&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=HLYgPtAmLkvD5M:&imgrefurl=http://www.ehattons.com/42902/Heljan_UK_266204_Beyer_Garratt_2_6_0_0_6_2_7983_in_LMS_Revolving_Coal_bunker_1938_48_Pristine_2_m/StockDetail.aspx&docid=zAxstO0BRQkJsM&imgurl=http://www.ehattons.com/images/products/266204_37361_Qty1_2.jpg&w=1200&h=456&ei=FEQDUICaNIfM0QXskoyCBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=959&vpy=160&dur=3289&hovh=138&hovw=364&tx=246&ty=84&sig=102406245490026470300&page=1&tbnh=54&tbnw=141&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0,i:91

Hopefully the pilot will make a full and speedy recovery.

I did wonder whether the seats fitted to the OV-10 were ‘zero/zero’ but it appears that they were:
http://www.ov-10bronco.net/faq.cfm#35
Happily they were not needed in this instance.

Tempest II, Lincoln, Welkin, Singapore, Blenheim I, Beaufighter VI, Scimitar, Javelin, VC10

That was only 9 …. OK VC10 again! 😀

RIP. I too have read and re-read his books. Classics from a quiet hero.

Wonderful story – thanks.

Interesting as this was last recorded as being stored in Tel Aviv! :confused:

Yes, I noticed that but it has been parked up at Luanda for a long time.

Thanks for reporting back! 🙂

The only one I could positively i/d was:
707-321B 19374 D2-MAY Angola Air Force.