The window actually looks rather fake to me? Then again, his boots look like they’ve been pasted in afterwards, too!

Congrats to Andy for a stunning photo- I’d be surprised if BBMF themselves don’t ask to use that one!

“probably the most historic bomber ever to be designed”

STILL total drivel.

(Which is what Mike J said in his excellent reply, only he used more words than me!)

LOL, after ‘what colour is cockpit green?’, the worst question must be ‘what colour is Bluebird blue?’, but that’s a whole other area of interest!

Well, in dream land I’d vote for ‘Sugar’ out of Hendon too, but she’s SO old…SO precious…and SO knackered!

‘Black 6’ on the other hand really breaks my heart when I see it sat there in the gloom, dusty and slowly dripping it’s vital fluids. Heart breaking.

ANY Stirling would be nice- static would be just fine, though flying is one pipe dream too far!

Hey, thanks for that Nick- yes, ’83 clicked as soon as you said it. I was only a kid on holiday in Cornwall at the time, hence the fuzzy memory!

Gaps in the collection? They want to sort out the gaps in their lighting…

This all makes me think yet again of something I’ve often recounted on here; I remember in the 1980’s, when at the RAF St.Athan ‘At Home’ day you’d get to see the Me410 being run up in the morning. My God, it was a sight and sound! And now, it sits utterly lifeless at Cosford.

Some aircraft exhibits haven’t flown in many of our lifetimes, but when it’s something like the Me410 that was once ‘live’, or of course poor old Black 6 now lurking sadly in the murk at Hendon, you really realise just how ‘dead’ an aircraft can be. 🙁