Looks like a spectacular nose-over, wheels most likely struck a ditch or sank into soft ground and the momentum at the time sent the rear fuselage soaring until it reached the vertical and…. nothing.

Allow me…

It’s at 38 53 31.57 S 62 06 19.19 W

It looks a bit like a Junkers F13, which was introduced in 1919, but not massively like it.

Nah, scratch that, it ain’t that one.

So now we know where the idea for the C17 came from!

Some of my late father’s charges in the background there, FMK, thanks for that!

Supermarine S24/37

An old news item from the BBC on some 300 remaining prefabs in Bristol being reprieved from demolition.

Fabulous. I’ve always had a soft spot for Sunderlands as my late father served his apprenticeship at Short’s in Belfast on them. I have his letter of graduation or whatever it’s called and he always used to fondly recall his time at Short’s.

And, Mark12, 425 does it for me!