Yeah been on the forum before, didn’t it have japanese crew last time though? Very good!
I wouldn’t be able to with money as i have none at the moment (poor student) but if they want any help with a website etc or spreading the word just let me know
Ah very nice, the one on the register was at Oakham, so technically now Rutland. Would be nice to see her finished, if i win the lottery she’ll be mine!
Lucky so-and-so, this morning i’ll be stacking shelves at Morrisons!
Oops, really should read the first post. As for already airworthy aircraft, i’d like to be in an Auster III, with the other two airworthy Auster III’s on each side of me. Not a glamorous aircraft, but played a vital role in WW2, have local interest for me (they were made in Leicester) and they look and sound nice to boot!
Don’t forget the lovely old WW2 Watson class Lifeboat ‘Jesse Lumb’!
Well i’d like to have a Hawker Typhoon in formation with me, me in a Hawker Typhoon as well, sweeping over France looking for tanks, trucks and trains to shoot up and rocket
Good choice, the Magister is very nice – you may want to contact Hairyplane on this forum, he owns one! Off the top of my head, there are three airworthy Maggies;
V1075 – Hairyplanes, at the Shuttleworth Collection (yellow with wheel fairings)
P6382 – Shuttleworth Collections own (earth/green over yellow without wheel fairings)
T9378 – Real Aircraft Company’s, at Breighton (Same as hairyplanes)
As for static, there are;
L6906 at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation, this is is in yellow with wheel fairings, but i believe the wings are removed
T9707 (not real identity) at the Museum of Army Flying, same colours as the Shuttleworth one, and without wheel fairings
As for Oxfords, only three are around in the UK;
MP425 – RAF Museum, Hendon
V3388 – IWM Duxford
There are also the remains of one at Solent Sky, Southampton
Thats just the ones in the UK by the way, may be more elsewhere
Edit – if your interested in Magisters, you’ll probably like the civilian version, the Miles Hawk. Heres a UK Survivor listing for them;
G-ADWT – Hawk Major, airworthy, Newbury Aeroplane Company, Berkshire
G-AFBS – Hawk trainer, IWM Duxford (painted in RAF colours)
Cheers, Rob
Don’t think i’ve ever paid full price for a Corgi model, i remember getting my first one, a lovely 1/144 Avro Lancastrian, bought for a tenner!
Nice to know, wasn’t familiar with this attempt but had a look at a thread about it. What are your plans for the Lanc if she does come back to the UK?
I thought the pilot was in love with an Italian prostitute? I remember a scene with them both in bed and him talking about being the best fish killer in the USAAF or something
Blimey! Mind you, would it be too surprising if he was gay? That kind of thing wasn’t exactly popular ‘back in the day’!
Well it seems to be the trend nowadays for historians to claim famous people from history were gay – Monty, Hitler, Richtofen (think Churchill as well)
I think there was a planned Stuka variant for taking off the Graf Zeppelin as well. Personally i think with the might of the Royal Navy it would have been sunk relatively easily, other major German warships of WW2 didn’t have a very good track record
Hey there, wondered why hadn’t seen many of your posts on the forum, hope you get better soon. As for ‘A Bridge Too Far’, i think only ten Dakota’s were in fact used for the film, but repainted etc. What i want to know is, what happened to all of those lovely Horsa gliders! One of them is at the Cobbaton Combat Collection in Devon, but the others seem to have dissapeared.
Wow very interesting, Hawk, Gladiator, Swordfish and Catalina, not bad! I think they’re very good choices, Ju 88 and Do 17 would be nice but hey can’t have everything, maybe they’re releases for next year. I would like it if they released the larger 1/72 aircraft such as the Catalina and Wellington into 1/144 scale for the poor and those with less space.
A Halifax and Stirling would be good as well, personally i’d love a Beaufighter or Auster but i doubt that’ll happen.