Welcome back Matthias, it’s wonderful to have you posting updates here again!

“That is indeed TE566 in part 4; a technical issue killed off the captions I spent hours writing out, sadly.” – I though the lack of captions was a weird an unfortunate oversight! Thanks for explaining.

My pleasure! As a bonus, here’s more of Mark in NH799 along with Ray in TB863 at the same show:

https://youtu.be/QarkVkBiVb8

I like to edit Wikipedia, particularly heritage aviation pages, with updated/correct information. One time I updated TIGHAR’s page to list the various projects and noting that as of that date nothing had been recovered or, in the case of the P-38, nothing had moved. I may have even pointed out “As of *the date* TIGHAR has yet to recover any historic aircraft”.

Not long afterward I was banned from editing any Wikipedia entries for a period of time…

I don’t recall much, if anything, being posted about this airframe since the original news. Now that Spitfire TB252’s done I believe work at Avspecs is ramping upon Jerry Yagen’s Curtiss Hawk. When I visited in early February 2020 there was no sign of DZ542.

Really hope this gets a PR Blue paint job.

I’m not too familiar with the bomber variants, did many B.IVs wear PRU Blue? I’m wondering if the owner would just replicate its original paint job worn during the Highball trials.

“A forum survey could be interesting to confirm the demographic, I consider myself one of the last of the young generation interested in old aircraft although I’m mid 40s now!”

I’m 33, and according to the “Member for” thing I was 21 when I joined the forum. A friend of mine, who hasn’t yet hit 30, has flown several WW1 types including rotaries, is rated on the P-40, owns and flies a Chipmunk and has a Harvard well on the way to airworthiness. I have several other friends under 40 who are active pilots of heritage aircraft and are passionate about their history, as are other friends my age and younger – one of whom aspires to build a replica Great War floatplane. There are definitely younger enthusiasts out there but I believe they’re possibly less visible because they use social media more, or rather, than forums.

From memory the decision to build the moulds in the UK was made long before Glyn’s passing. Unfortunately I can’t find the information on their website but it may have had something to do with UK CAA approval and/or oversight.

If you haven’t already, why not ask TPM directly?