Very nice it was. With hindsight i soooo want it….

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Thanks

I’d just like to say, even though i only had my ‘Joe Public’ hat on, how welcome i was made to feel by faces & names old and new.

Thanks to those who brought along parts for the Harrier, thanks to those Aerobooters who turned up and sold Gnat parts to me, Mr King for making a special trip with canopies for the Invader. Thanks to Air Ministry for allowing me to ‘dump’ some of the pile with him until home time. Thanks to my driver, ‘HMS Vulture’ for badgering me for the last few months to go.

It’s a shame i only managed a cursory 10 or 15 minutes each with most of the Cockpiteers and then not all. Multiply that by the number of faces and the day just isn’t long enough, especially 4+ hours each way, even at 70mph+

No time to eat, drink or hardly even photograph everything and only a cursory glance at the museum aircraft. With hindsight i’m glad i didn’t just turn up with the Harrier, as my 9+ hours there wasn’t enough time at all.

Nice one guys…….

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…..So clearly to undertake a Lanc you would need to access a centre-section, it seems the 2 Lancaster wrecks in Canada both have surviving wing outer panels but totally destroyed centre-sections, “Elsie” in Europe similarly has little surviving of its centre-section, and the Lincoln Centre-section in Canada is cut in two with one section un-accounted for?

Mark,

I recall a thread & photo here recently showing the very substantial wing/center remains of a Lanc in a museum in Germany. I think recovered from a lake after the war. I’ll see if i can find it…..

EDIT: Aha, here it is…

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65661

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Interesting Vulcan panel project. Vulcan bits tend to pop up on ebay now and again..

Peter,

I have all i need, thanks.

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🙂 An unspoken wish for me might be coming true in so far as I hear whispers that Ritch and Max might now be displaying a cockpit!

Anyone heard any more?

From your own list…. Chippax WZ869 i presume ?

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Assuming this Airbus was 30,000+ high, do drug planes also fly that high ?

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Great stuff.

Perhaps it can come to a similiar event at Smeatharpe the next day ?

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=90239

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