The wonders of googling “Shuttleworth Lockheed 12”:

On the crossing subject I spent an hour or so in a friends hanger under the wing of his Lockheed 12 talking about Atlantic crossings. He is going to England in it next summer for the Shuttleworth show. He flew it up from New Zealand.

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I have a feeling in my waters that someone’s got the wrong end of a very long stick.:) We may see it, but I don’t think it’s been acquired!

Was not the preferred landing approach configuration for the Britannia to be in a 3 degree nose-down attitude? Don’t know the details!
HTH
Resmoroh

To be followed by a (fairly shallow) flare (more of a round out to be honest), as shown HERE

If you’re ever around Brize Norton when a VC10’s bashing the circuit, you may be lucky enough to see one doing a slatless landing. For a big jet, that appears very nose down.:)

I’ve been visiting the museum since the 1980s, and it has gone dramatically downhill since the late 1990s. I last visited in 2007, travelling from several equivalent European aircraft (and other) museums and onto a couple of North American museums, while also visiting a swathe of UK museums. It was, in it’s class, the most poorly presented, messy and, frankly, grubby of the lot.

Anything to do with the well intentioned but ultimately flawed policy of free entry (over which I suspect they had little control)? I may be wrong, but there must be very few museums where so much money has been spent (Milestones, GW relocation etc) but ultimately, with to poor staffing and unpredictable and occasionally infrequent opening (galleries etc) the final “product” has gone downhill.

No one appears to ever visit them because they are always closed and I believe most of the exhibits at the top of the stairs were removed to make way for a load of computer interactive stuff.

Brian

My point entirely!:)

It won’t be long before the next generation of kids will just think that all fighter pilots flew Spitfires and all Bomber pilots flew Lancs.

Not a good move but it is their aeroplane so they can do what they want.

Rubbish. I’d be more worried that the future generations won’t even know of the historical significance and personal sacrifice associated with any of the aeroplanes you name in your post.

And remember too, that this aeroplane is the way in which the Panton’s pay a personal tribute to their brother, who IIRC, was Halifax aircrew (unless you wish them to conjure up a non existent airframe).

Imagine the feeling of watching your Lancaster take off and complete a circuit….

Given the lump in the throat the average punter gets just standing beside Just Jane as she sets off on one of her taxi runs, I doubt many people would be able to see it…

…they’d all be trying to get a “bit of dust out of their eye”.:)

I suspect at the time the negotiations started, ZD241 wasn’t “under threat” and ZA150 certainly has been for some years.