Yes, with any access to the interiors of RAFM aircraft not allowed anymore, any interior fit is irrelevant. The Wellington is known, by far, as a bomber, and is a very significant part of Bomber Command’s history; to have a Wellington and not represent the bomber boys is an insult.

The Mossie take off is superb!

I noticed the CWH Lanc smoking on shut down too, never seen that before..?

Use parts from DR306 and LS931 as patterns for creating new parts needed for DP872, but leave their original material to be dealt with later,

That’s the thing- the aim is to build a Barracuda that is as near as possible made from 100% original Barracuda material. Even missing parts, we are fabricating to the drawings from scrap skins and the like, but it’s all Barracuda. So whatever we have available will be used in the ‘mix’- that is why I was personally pondering the issue of final identity.

You beat me to it is all! Thanks for plugging it.

While I don’t like the current state of Sugar’s black paint- it’s not wartime or original effect, it’s just wrong- I do agree with what Mark says about the ‘Airfix’ effect- something that always strikes me when I see ‘Just Jane’ as it happens.

Years ago I got a lot of pictures of when Sugar had her port outer wing removed, to allow some airframes in and out of the doorway behind her; being able to see into her wing structure, and look at removed panels close up and so on, THEN you could see how old she is. I recall that her removed engine was virtually bright red, it had so much preservative sprayed over it!

Of course, it’s unlikely that much of what sits in Hendon is what was originally built as R5868 by Avro- she had at least one major rebuild and several sections swapped out during the war- but she’s still the airframe that finished the war, of course. She was pretty much a gutted shell at one point, but is in better fettle now for internal fit and as Mark said, she’s had a few repaints in her post-war life, and in my opinion, could do with another one now- the black patches on her that have been repainted in more recent times stand out like a sore thumb and look awful now.

Both wings off and the tail about to follow, but better than I was expecting, I must say.