Great to see some less well-known types in the air!

(Your last two photos are an F-16 and a MiG-29 by the way)

I think Henri is asking that question in a more general way, he wants information about the type in preparation for restoring one, see here for more: http://www.bamfbamrs.be/B25/B25-en.htm

Henri, it would be best if you try to get in touch with other groups/museums who operate one or have restored one.

It’s a good subject I think! There was a Bristol Freighter somewhere in the southern hemisphere that’s being used as a B&B, I think that one was featured on this forum a while ago.

I’ll add this though: http://www.vc10.net/History/vikings_of_soesterberg.html

Both the Canon 350D and the Nikon D50 are top quality cameras. As for choosing between them, go with what you like. With that I mean go to a place where you can hold them, play with them and see which one suits you best. There are many discussions around on which performs better but as mentioned above a DSLR is almost always a great step up in performance from a compact camera, so both would be an equally good choice. The deal on the D50 you mention sounds pretty good, it would give you a good set to get you started and from there you can easily purchase more lenses and other stuff which you never knew you needed 😉

Twenthe Airbase, 1991 airshow (if I remember correctly):

I do hope that BA and the RAF Museum were able to establish who actually owned VC10 G-ARVM. Seems the true owner could be Boeing, believe it or not. It and three other VC10’s (G-ARVB, VE & VH) may all have been part of a part exchange deal with Boeing for Rolls Royce powered Boeing 747 in 1976. (The other three VC10s were scraped at Heathrow in about October 1976). Could be a bit embarrassing if Boeing ever ask for their property back.

David, I’d be very surprised if that was the case since British Airways continued to use G-ARVM up until its final flight to Cosford in 1979. If ‘VM was also part of the deal between Boeing and BA then surely it wouldn’t have continued in active service? The scrapping of ‘VB, ‘VE and ‘VH caused a bit of an uproar back then as they were scrapped in front of the people who had serviced and flown them up until that day. It is a sad thought that ‘VM now awaits the same fate. 🙁

It’s always a question of money. An airplane doesn’t automatically have the ‘right’ to be rebuilt, that only happens when someone is willing to throw a large amount of cash towards it, thereby creating something that looks and sounds like a complete Spitfire again. Please remember that by doing so you might be throwing away more of the original aircraft than you are putting back in the air!

In this particular case the BBMF is doing its best to keep 5 Spitfires in the air, with a sixth slowly coming along as well and all on the taxpayer’s money. Within those parameters I think it makes perfect sense to use an airframe that has a whole lot of issues and problems and would take a huge amount of work and money to get flying again, as spares. Someone will inevitably react with ‘but there was ZZ000 as well, that was rebuilt from just the elevator hingepin!’ Allright, so someone else WAS crazy enough to spend a fortune. That doesn’t make it the right decision in all the cases.

Once it is your airplane you can do with it what you want. Therewith ended my two cents worth…

So who CAN list the Spitfires in store at St. Athan or Stafford? I think that was the original point of this thread 😉 :rolleyes: