Cor – I’d forgotten all about this.

I certainly don’t remember being e-mailed about it either.

Oh well, cross me of the list as it’s getting rather complicated. I taped the ’82 display off BBC at the time but the picture quality was not that great. I’ll just have to dig it out and watch my snowy images of the Ruskin Airlines DC-3 and the T-33 with the stuck undercarriage.

Can’t add anything to your query on the aircraft but the lake is actually spelled Glendalough (all one word). It is am Anglicisation of Gleann Da Lach – the Glen of the Two Lakes.

Still interesting – although the archive footage was a bit haphazard – Bostons, Wellingtons, Halifaxes, B-24s, B-17s, Manchesters – all muddled together in scenes supposed to be depicting one raid.

I don’t see much point in doing this type of project unless it is a pretty exact replica – i.e wooden construction. Apart from its beautiful looks, the big “thing” about the Albatross was how it was made. A plastic or composite look-a-like would not be the same. And the chances of an exact wooden reproduction being made and allowed to fly would be precisely nil. I would suspect that the DH91 would not get a civilian CofA under modern licence regulations – they had inherent structural design flaws.

However, I do think that the Albatross was one of the most gorgeous aircraft ever built.

I doubt it could maintain height on one engine (1/8 power!!!!!!!!!). Obviously, the various marks of the B-52 had different versions of the Pratt and Whitney turbojet and the H model, of course, uses the TF33 turbofan.

What a fantastic project. I would dearly love to see a Beaufort in the air after all these years – they are very much a forgotten aircraft these days. Do you have access to veterans who flew these aircraft or worked on them back in the 1940s.? Obviously, as time progresses, these individuals become more and more scarce.

It’s the ubiquitous channel hopper which causes the “I must repeat the basic scenario after every commercial break” syndrome. I find it truly annoying and one of the biggest nuisances when watching documentaries on channels other than the BBC. Imagine how rubbish “The World at War” would be if that appraoch was used 30 years ago. Sir Lawrence Oliver would have walked out!