At the time, it was said to be Royal Blue & gold, since they were Princess Margaret’s colours.

[QUOTE=91Regal;1863836It might even work, he couldn’t do much worse than most of the recent plonkers the U.K. has chosen, could he ?[/QUOTE]
Difficult to do much worse than last place.
The British team cannot seem to grasp the obvious:-
1/. Find someone who can sing.
2/. Find someone who looks good.
1 + 2 = Katherine Jenkins.

I worked as a civilian volunteer labourer, at Halton, on that XVI (which is the one that famously interrupted a cricket match,) and, with (it was estimated) 1,000 manhours it could have been returned to flight. We civilians were pushed aside, when the swap was decided upon, though we were magnanimously allowed to attend the handover, while having to watch the RAF personnel get all of the credit.
We were able to inspect the “P-51,” which had no engine, minimal cockpit contents, and the undercarriage was bolted into makeshift fittings in the bays, so it couldn’t possibly retract. The Halton personnel had to spend hours making the airframe fit for its appearance at Hendon.
That “exchange” was one of the worst confidence tricks that I’ve ever witnessed.

The only types who would gain from this would be the legal profession, after all, until we speak their languages, animals will always need someone to speak for them, in court, won’t they? Until the human race can learn to stop killing itself, with as little thought as stepping on an insect, animals won’t have a chance.

No, there isn’t; the prototype Centaurus-engined Tempest II (still then known as the Typhoon II) was given the go-ahead 17-6-42, and Faber didn’t deliver his Fw190A-3 until 23-6-42.
The Centaurus was being planned in October 1940, and its use in the “Typhoon” was talked of as early as March 1942.

And there was I thinking that “Innocent until proven guilty” still applied; didn’t realise that, in our desire to be “good Europeans,” we’d adopted France’s legal system.

When the Shackletons were due to be phased out, there were labels available, at an air display, showing an 8 Squadron Shackleton, with the legend, “8 screws are better than 4 blow jobs.”

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Is there a reason why the pyro rack is so big and prominant, and fixed to the seat, on the Spitfire/Seafire?

It was intended solely for the Seafire (probably to try to get the ships to stop firing at them,) but Spitfires built by Westland might have got them by default; AR213 certainly did.