Peter Hart is a superb WW1 aviation author, as are his other WW1 books. I’m a big fan of personal accounts too – Vivian Voss (RFC Bristol F2b pilot) and Paul Bewsher (RNAS Handley Page Observer) are too of my favourites
Well, if anyone was wondering why the P40 at Hendon is missing some paint, that’s because it was damaged when a company making replicas pulled some paint off during the process of making a mould from it
East Midlands Today just showed one of the presenters in the door of one, presumably at Bruntingthorpe unless there’s old busses stored on the pans at Brize as well!