Smirky, sorry for my careless mistake, but why are you so sure that it’s not worth contacting
the Institution?

Two RAF marked Chipmunks over Worthing on Saturday. Made my day!

Can anyone provide links to sources, or better still post copies, of close-up photos, drawings or official reports relating to the catapult system used with the Avro Manchester. Anything that shows details of the rails, trolleys, attachment mechanisms etc. would be most useful. Basically anything other than the overview photos in magazines as this is for a detailed CGI project.

Thanks

I have found a scanned copy of an article from an engineering magazine about the restoration of the catapult at Harwell. If this is useful, please pm me your email address and I will senda copy to you.

I’m not a lawyer, but I have some understanding of contract. I believe that one party has to offer something in exchange for something (called consideration, but not necessarily money) in exchange. I know nothing about the background to this awfully sad situation, but it seems that the volunteers are making an offer to restore an aircraft in exchange for ???????? Unless the other party involved is offering something in return, I wouldn’t have thought that a legally binding contract can be made – and the volunteers would have to agree that the consideration was of sufficient value. The other party might argue that the consideration was the offer of accommodation, etc, and this might be valid, but there are other things about this which seem very uncertain to me, and I wonder whether there might be a lawyer on here might be able to provide free legal advice to the volunteers and therefore help them to fight this ridiculous situation on a more equitable basis. It’s just a thought………..

Thank you, thank you, thank you CWH Team. To misquote Tennyson: “Tis better to have seen, loved and lost Than never to have seen and loved at all.” Have a safe journey home.

I did wonder if the departure date has been put back to facilitate a possible engine swap.