Bravo! I wish I had that software now, I could get cracking on many different Lancaster and Titanic photos!
Cadbury’s Creme Egg, erm, egg, to the just-left BBMF Paul Day, with a little Spitfire in it, as he is, in my opinion, the Creme de la Creme egg of Spit pilots.
How about we email a link to this thread to someone senior at Hendon?! This isn’t the first long thread we’ve had on this subject, and yet another has appeared today. Suggestions about who is best to contact, rather than using the general contact form on their website?
1. Lighting
2. Food
3. Perches!
4. Milestones-oh, really?
Answers, please Hendon! 😡
Well done mate-truly wonderful. 🙂
Please note, I was 😀 in a tongue in cheek kind of a way then!
There’s no doubt at all that the Stirling was the ‘nicest’ of the heavies to fly, but unfortunately, with that restricted wingspan and divided bomb bay, it was never going to cut the mustard as a heavy bomber. And I believe it was Monty Python who designed it’s undercart, wasn’t it?! 😮 What a frightful contraption that was!
They ALL have their place in the books though, don’t think from my username that I’m one of those type-obsessed blokes!
Hmm, why am I apologising? I STILL think it was an odd bomber!!!
I haven’t checked the footage, so you may be right mate, but in the pictures of the practice runs they did in the April 2001 FlyPast, it looks like the locks are still in, albeit painted black. (Big side view inside on p20, and the cover shot in particular)
‘Guaranteed to get Lancman teddy chucking.’
“An ‘undred and ten teddies, that’ll hold. It’s hold an ‘undred and ten teddies, it will…”
Odd uses for aircraft? Hmm. I believe that the Stirling was used as a bomber once?! 😀
Interesting; I don’t know if they’ve gone so far as getting the u/c operational; why would they? Maybe they just came out for looks; after all, we here would be the first ones to scoff at it trundling along to ‘take off’ with it’s locks in!
I guess if she’d run long- if the brakes gave out or something- it would have been preferable to get her onto the grass/ ground loop her or whatever, rather than to increase the power and lift her off; the structural and legal implications of that would be just plain scary! 😮
Yup, the ground crew display at the Wimpey is fine; not too over-powering of the aircraft as a whole itself, and the background tape of clanging noises is subtle and evocotive. My grandad really was one of those guys once, and he was impressed and moved by it.
I’d like to see something like this done for the Lanc- a full crew, gear in hand, gathered around by the rear door, with perhaps just one on the ladder. The rear door would be open, giving Joe Public a tantalising glimpse of the interior. You could even go all the way and have a crew bus parked there; after all, Sugar’s most photographed side is her port, nose art side, so even having a bus on the other side would not detract from the aircraft overall.
Still, I despair at the place, I really do.
🙁
Some form of petition of opinions to old Foppy might be a good idea. How could we arrange that?
It lost me during the Ken Delve period, during which I’m sure he’d have re-named it ‘Canberra Monthly’ if he could, and they never got me back; now I’m just a Smiths flicker too, and I’ll buy it about twice a year, if that. 🙁
Re. the magazine, I’m 100% with Snapper and Steve there. 🙁
I offered some similar books here a while ago-ones from the between wars period-and no one was interested. 🙁
I’d certainly be happier with that definition of the ‘Halifax’ as a facsimile; that would be a lot better then the way it’s just referred to as ‘the Halifax’, because no matter how much the people who built it may be proud and want to kid themselves, a Halifax it just ain’t.
LOL @ Steve! 😉