This IS a bit troubling.

If there were to be a global nuclear holocaust, would it affect the value of my house?

Pobjoy pilots will tell you they neeed two hours engine tinkering for every hour in the air.

The Olympic juggernaut is utterly out of control now. The long-debased athletics tournament has become a giant, bloated balloon ( to mix metaphors)which will soon go bang more or less in paralell with the global economy, and is now much more an international willy-waving contest which has lost contact with any notions of perspective, budget or logic.

The ‘ 3 pounds’ waffle, if there is any truth in it, would be 3 x 60 years = £180 per person x 60 milllion population. I have no wish to spend my £180 on a running, jumping and throwing contest, but seemingly do not have the option to withhold my funds.

Many people love the Olympics, and I wish them well, and applaud the idea of fitness and personal endeavour. However, we (nation GB) cannot afford to kind of contest we seem to be revving up for, and it will become a HUGE waste of resourses if it is not reigned in now.

We should hold it in Hyde Park, with existing paths for running already round the perimeter, open parkland for throwing stuff and the cycleways are also already in place. There is a nice big pond for swimming, and trees you could dive off. Sailing and under-water ping-pong can be easily accomodated

If that fantastic solution is rejected then get real, abandon the UK host concept, and relocate to the home of the Olympics, ie Athens ,where all the facilities are in place, and crying out to be used.

It would be seen by some as a bitter blow to our national prestige, but better than than a half-cocked, semi-finished attempt which cripples us with debt until the end of time. Don’t believe the hype and the VI’s (vested interests) – the Millenium Dome fiasco will be a mere sideshow in comparison

I envy you that sound and spectacle, but my reference was to the present state of the sole survivor, and the likelihood of it attracting funds in the face of other contemporary competition, and naturally one thinks of the Vulcan.

I confess I have not visited in person the cherished Beverley, but made a rash guess that it is no longer very noisy save perhaps the wind moaning through the propeller blades, or the raindrops bouncing off the slab-sided fuselage.

I sense that Pagen01 relishes some sort of a debate, even though everybody seems to broadly agree that it would be great to secure the future of the aeroplane. However, in the absence of any statutory or charitable body in a position to make a difference, there doesn’t really seem an awful lot to discuss.

We have a least concluded that the Bev was a bit of a turkey, but we love it anyway:)

Hang on, there’s some microlights in there. It IS a hangar !

Even Panshanger is tidier than that.:)

What important role was that? Compared to , say, the C-130, the Beverley was not much of a success, and seemed to be used to used to support the last fading outposts of the British Empire in place like Aden.

Its not much a sales pitch, for the public who would be just as happy to look at a Fibre-glass Spitfire, or even better, a Jet Provost they could sit in.

The Beverley seem to be remembered more for its unreliability ( engines) than almost anything else. They are quirky, ugly, and just the kind of aeroplanes I love, but I can’t afford to put a roof over it, and I have doubts that the kind of money required (£150k?) could be found.

Don’t know if it is ‘cynical’ or not, but it is business, and nobody makes a fortune from publishing aviation literature.

As mentioned above, any in-depth technical content would go over the head of 90% of the readership, who neither know nor care how to adjusty the oleo dampers in a Lancaster tailwheel ( if it has such things!).

You can do that for a MG Midget, because it is small, and quite simple, and there are many owners who actively need the technical details. For a large aeroplane, it would be 15 Volumes, and if all the UK Lancaster owners bought a complete copy, you would make three sales.

That said, the Tiger Moth is simple enough to make it reasonable to provide more engineering detail without consuming whole rain-forests, and it is possible that the editorial content could move more in that direction.

However, any Tiger rebuilder/restorer HAS to refer to existing manuels which already contain comprehensive instructions and specs, so duplicating more than a flavour of that for an enthusiasts’ publication is fairly pointless.