Take it this means I can now add it to my list of historic aircraft flown in if they’ve been retired. I’ll have to dig out the photos I took at Kinloss back in 2003

Back in the 30s-60s, a WWI pilot, Arch Whitehouse, wrote dozens of books aboutthe airwar from a pilots perspective. I remember reading a couple as a child. I can’t give a review, but whatever he wrote may be of interest because of his experiences.

He even survived a shootdown by von Richthofen.

And there was a book in the late 60s-early 70s about German Bombers over England. I can’t recallits name…but would be interested if someone does.

Arch Whitehouse was with 22 Squadron – apparently a lot of books were extremely glamourised for the large market in WW1 aviation stories at the time, but at least one ‘Hell in the Heavens’ which I have is quite a reputable one, i’ve compared it with 22 Squadron records and, aside from a few differences in timing, it’s pretty much spot on.

A more recent one came out about German bombers in WW1, entitled ‘The First Blitz’, which is a great read. For anyone wanting to do some WW1 Zeppelin/Gotha/Zeppelin Staaken tourism in the UK, ‘Baby Killers’ is a good one too

Unfortunately i’d heard the same a while back, when the Swiss? Company was looking to acquire it

I’ve had no problem using a tripod and flash in the exhibition halls before – you can even get a tripod pass

There was definitely a ‘bombcorde’ design projected – got a few images somewhere which I used in a piece of coursework for University in first year