Chains.

That’s the trouble with pushbikes.:) Safer and healthier to walk, but not as much fun..:diablo:

There are old pilots and bold pilots……………….

….and there’s ‘elf & safety’. Let’s face it, it it was invented today, the bicycle would be banned…:rolleyes:

Duh..?

I think you will find there are a number of aircraft that could be recovered but arn’t that come in the category of ‘shame’ I would dearly like the RAFM Beaufighter to return to Portugal and a combat veteran to take it’s place!

From memory there is a Beaufighter ripe for recovery in Norway too !

Huh….???? Too much Christmas sherry I think…!:confused:

Not Quite, but….

One of the more arcane items in my posession is an oil-cooler for a Napier Rapier off the S.20 Mayo composite. I’m no authority on the Rapier, but I don’t think that they were fitted to much else;- around a dozen engines in six types….so it’s possibly the last piece of S.20 left.

Is the Rapier at Old Warden the only one left…? Any ideas what it came off….?

The Napier engines were all interesting, but all seemed to have been problematic. 🙂

Naaaaa……

The stories I heard years ago about VACBAF were that they had buried Lancasters, which is even more unlikely….! After a/c production had finished at VACBAF, GKN came in to turn it over to car-body production etc. I’ve no doubt that any remnants had all been sent to the scrappy by the time that they moved-in.

The problem with most of these stories is that in almost all cases, there would have been just no incentive whatever to go to all that trouble, when they could just give it to a scrappy – for free if necessary. I know from research many years ago that even when the scrap prices were rock-bottom after the war, stuff just sat around until the prices went up again. At which juncture, every pikey in the UK started to remember where all this junk was…..

I did come across entirely credible stories of stuff being buried out of expediency, when units found that they had stock – but no paperwork for it. Whatever has been buried for seventy years or so is going to be rotted to hell anyway.

Some years ago, I purchased a job-lot of stuff. Some had been stored in a hangar with a damp floor, and some in an old lorry-body. Most of the stuff went to the tip as it was so corroded – and it hadn’t even been buried in the wet ground for seventy years….:rolleyes:

Still, we live in hope eh……..!!! :p

You read my mind..!

It’s not hard to see why some fora ‘go offshore’ nowadays. Anyone got any IT contacts in Tajikistan?

It would certainly solve some of the issues… What’s ‘Snoopy’ in Tadjicicanese – or whatever they call it…? :p

Bex.. can I ask you a question?

It’s late on a Friday afternoon when all good lawyers are in the Wig & Pen. The webbie is on holiday when a threat comes in from an organisation that accuses named posters on the forum of some kind of defamation / libel.

As a director of Key would you run the risk of ignoring it until you were finally able to get hold of a legal beagle, or would you move the thread out of sight and put a temporary suspension on those members to hold things until a proper response could be formulated?

Moggy

You did the only thing you could. Frankly, I saw this coming days ago. I’m just surprised anyone on the forum is surprised. Hey ho.