Storch

Brian

Where pray is the rest of this Storch or ‘criquet’

There is something absolutely beautiful about the Supermarine Spitfire, especially in my opinion the MkI, and your photo just enhances that beauty to the optimum.
An excellent account of the comings and goings of Duxford, an excellent diary I must say.

That could’ve flown by now…

Brits had inveted a rocket engine ( interceptor ) that was safe, but F-104 got their german deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_SR.177

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Spectre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_SR.53

He-162 was more unsafe.

My avatar is a rocket-jet hybrid ship.

We could try the SR powerplant?

Probably a Russian dropped it whilst testing our radar etc!

How about getting some B17’s back across the pond and getting “pink Lady” flying again, to join “Sally-B”

A flight of B17’s would stir the blood – It needs to be done in the next few years whilst we still have US veterans who would bring authenticity to it all.

If we could get the B17s over and a couple of 109s with the 2 buchons and even a 262, we could do a whole American bomber raid scenario!

Wasn’t it because it was decided it had sufficient low speed handling, so they just weren’t needed, strapped back and omitted on production aircraft?