MiG-15 is heavily based an the proposed Ta-183 isnt it?

Yes, You’re right. I just couldn’t remember the number.

I recently downloaded a documentary from Youtube called something like ‘Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe’. It was quite startling how advanced the German technology was, and clear that little of it was wasted or discarded by the Allies.

Smashing paint job. Much nicer than the horrid black scheme, which must add another 10 degrees to the airframe temperature cycling in summer.

Hawk is my favourite aircraft. I liked the old red and white training colours best.

The pebble Island runways were grass.

There had always been plans, once the British were ashore, to base the RAF Harrier GR3s (and Sea Harriers) ashore at San Carlos and it was in fact done (despite much of the steel-matting runway and supporting equipment being lost on the Atlantic Conveyor).

But there was never any possibility of operating anything like a Vulcan or a Jaguar from these temporary airstrips.

I have seen a Jaguar operating from grass. Vulcans wouldn’t be needed.

I think it’s ‘Where Eagles Dare’ that made me smile….. The Nazis fly a Bell 47 helicopter ! (‘Might have been a Schweizer, but still rather modern)

Erm… Would there be any tax due at all, on import into UK? I can’t think why.

Why not look closer to home… like Poland. Museums often keep several of their ‘home’ types to swap aircraft with museums in other countries. They might consider selling one, or at least know where one is available. I mean… a museum in Poland may have enough on display, and be uninterested in others they know of in Poland. Poland is just a day’s drive from the ferry ports to UK.

Another idea… look at aircraft scrapyards in the East on Google Earth. I was in Riga a few years ago and saw a whole bunch of old aircraft parked in a paddock next to the airport. Didn’t notice any MiG-15s, though.

BU**ER ! Now I want one !

I think I’ve done this before, but…

What if Reginald Mitchell had not died young. What would his jet aircraft designs have looked and performed like around the end of WW2?

We used to use Solvol Autosol for Perspex radar plotting screens.