Forgot to mention – it’ll also be difficult to just view it as well, from one side of Airspace you’ll have the Canberra, Canuck, Whirlwind and Dove in the way of it (by the way you’ll have a hard job getting a good luck at the Canuck as well, and the Jaguar and Harrier), and on the other side the Lysander, Tiger Moth and Re8!

Better enjoy the Oxford while you can – in Airspace she’ll be hung up near the centre of the hangar away from any of the walkways (unless they build an overhead one down the middle) and the Vulcan right under it so it’ll be rather difficult to get pics of her when she’s strung up

For anyone interested in the other Blenheim/Bolingbrokes around the UK, got an e-mail today from the Museum of Flight, East Lothian about their Bolingbroke 9940 – it’s a long term project worked on one day a week, it won’t be finished for several years apparently as although externally it looks like a Bolingbroke, internally it needs a lot of work. Also, it will most probably be in yellow as a CATP aircraft when complete.

Also I asked where they’d house it as there isn’t much room in other hangars, and also what was happening with the Concorde hangar, and I was told that they are currently deciding a long-term development plan.

By the way, has anyone else heard anything about the IWM decision not to include the Bolingbroke in Airspace?

Can’t help you out with sizes, but as for the reason the Superfortress carried the same amount of bombs as a Lanc is probably for range. Of course, the lighter the plane is, the further it can go, and when the B29 was introduced they had to operate from airfields on islands in the Pacific, quite some distance away from Japan

instructor at the back student at the front

I now think the Meteor F4 is the Tangmere one actually, judging by the painted over rear canopy, looking on the Tangmere museum website it seems to have that whereas the Midland Air Museum one is clear

P40b here http://www.warbirdphotos.net/aviapix/Fighters/P40/p40b.jpg

And I guess your ‘normal’ P40 would look like this

http://www.warbirdphotos.net/aviapix/Fighters/P40/p40-e.jpg

Biggest visible difference to me would be the size of the air intake under the engine