Cameron has said that as long as he is in number 10 the Red Arrows are safe, no shock at the mere suggestion, so they’re OK for the next 18 months while they hang on in Government .
Its not difficult to see how the quality of whats on the box is so poor reading this request. I think they should stick to the usual incessant food or home diy/buying selling programmes.
By the way they need to contact Derek Bell at http://www.Gluefactory.co.uk.
And interestingly I wonder if any museums have improved their fire protection? The RAF museum Hendon certainly hasn’t, one look up at their very wooden built roof strutts and their very precious aircraft below reminds one that it needs looking at.
If it was a professional model built in the 1960’s it was more than likely built by Thorpes Modelmakers in Grays Inn Road London. This at the time was pretty much the only Industrial Modelmakers around then and they are to date the oldest company still trading [ over 100 years].
What you probably don’t appreciate is that to get PK683 airworthy would require everything you see of the aircraft that ‘Did’ get built by supermarine in the 1940’s would apart from the data plate get thrown into a skip.
Somebody I worked with was there and must have got the best photo that day, It ended up on the front cover of one of the main aero magazines [ I forget which one] he got paid £750.00 for it….
I know a Sqn leader Engineering Officer who worked on Lightnings, He has a wealth of information, but it has to be serious, he won’t want to be mucked around.
Whilst taking the point about ‘who cares but us’, I’m sure that if the producers of the television film had approached those nice people at Cerney – la Ferté-Alais aerodrome, they could have provided something from the AJBS collection that would have fitted the bill – and kept the previous posters happy!
Ah! thats the reason, Anything in France that remotely ‘looks’ like a business transaction would have required approval by the local tax office with the usual comets tail of red tape and form filling.
Watching the BBC drama ‘Spies in Warsaw’ I’m left wondering why the BBC thought that using an AOP Mk V Auster to represent a French military aircraft in 1939 would be acceptable. 😡
Because television producers assume the average ‘Brit’ can only discern the difference between Lager, mobile phones and trashy reality TV programmes.
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