Sorry to hear you can’t come Cees, and possibly Lindy’s Lad too.

Went to the RAFM today to check something for someone on the Planetalk board, copied it here as a bit of extra info for next weekend

Apparently the Bomber Command Hall was closed due to ‘technical problems’. No idea what it meant, looking into the hall through the historic hangars area everything seemed alright. The upstairs gallery of Battle of Britain hall was open again, meaning you can yet again see what is (to me) the most powerful and scary painting ever, well, painted

and the Sunderland area too, which has been revamped thanks to the National Maritime Heritage Trust (or something like that), and includes a few touch screens as seen in the Helicopter and Milestones of Flight area.

Had a quick browse in the shop, do any of the aircraft modelling forumites know if the Revell DH2 and SE5a are any good? They were both cheap so might give them a go anyway.

Someone was asking in the thread about an RAF Transport Command liveried Concorde, here’s one i’ve just knocked up for some work i’m doing. Not fantastic quality but it gives you a rough idea! Also looking for more information as to whether there were any plans to acquire Concorde for RAF Transport Command

If there’s one thing I miss about Leicestershire (well, apart from a chippy, which London seems devoid of!), it’s the ASDA 747 – no one around here believes me that it exists!

Shame they went to all that effort for warbirds etc and used a bunch of post war six wheel Tatra’s! Plenty of Opel Blitz’s etc about

B of B hangar opens at 12am when the CGW hangar closes because of staffing, i’d imagine the resturant is open from 10am though. Of course, if anyone fancies donating a tenner to a poor, starving, ragged clothed penniless student I could go and investigate one morning…. 😀

I’ll be at one of the main Remembrance Day events here in London with a few friends, must say it’s pretty dissapointing seeing how few people in London wear a poppy, at the London to Brighton concourse event in Regent Street last Saturday there was a life size figure of a man made out of poppies – I saw over a dozen people stand next to it having their photo taken with it, and not a single person was wearing a poppy. Does the general public even care anymore? A friend on my course said that at her college they didn’t even have the two minute silence on 11th November

Hahaha, not wrong there! I once got the bus from outside the RAFM to Asda – unfortunately it made a tour of the council estate before coming out at the same roundabout it entered, first time i’ve ever seen ten feet tall steel fences surrounding a primary school! Was rather amused by the dog kennel as a play thing in the playground with an old mail sack as an entrance

With a bit of luck the flats being built will help reguvenate the area (sorry can’t spell, just had a night out in Leicester Square!), at the moment Colindale is just a huge building site with a tube station in the middle, the nearest pub is a mile away and even then it’s a lousy wetherspoons