That’s lovely. Has anyone written up a more detailed analysis of the restoration? Clearly they’ve decided to preserve it at a specific moment in time, as it were. I’d be interested to know what kind of decisions they had to make in the process. e.g. didn’t I read somewhere they found a huge 3-digit number painted in white on the cowling which related to its building in the States or something? I notice that it’s not there now. (or is it?). Also, is there a movement history available for public perusal (from 4000 miles away)?

Rob / Kansan

Nah… Canon is in, NIKON is out! :diablo: :p :rolleyes:

Andy

Bah! 1976 Zenit-E with all those lovely M42 lenses. Weighs about 16 tons and has never failed me!! (Oh yes, 1960’s Pentax SV also with M42 – top kit!)

Like Morse said about his Jag MkII “It’s PRE-Electric, that’s why I like it!”

PS Wal-Mart’s 35mm developing is so utterly cheap!! They don’t do enprints, though. 🙂

Digital? What’s that 😀

Rob / Kansan

Go east a bit…

You can also find a bunch of Hillman Huskies in a field in Essex!! 🙂 (Thanks to Pete Truman for this tip!).

Have a look around Wichita, Kansas and see if you can see a B-52 parked between the old municpal airfield and the Boeing works. This belongs to the Wichita Aviation Museum. (B-52s must count as Historic?) I don’t know if they are suppressed by being on an active base, but there are some historic types scattered around on external view at McConnell AFB (also in Wichita) which forms the Kansas Air Guard Museum.

Funnily enough I’m in Wichita as I type. Broadband connections in the most modest hotels are a real boon!

Rob / Kansan

If you read the trivia for this movie, it states that:

The rest of the trivia is pretty amazing too. I never read that far.

Rob

OT – R.C. Sherriff

except Aces High which is a re-hash of ‘Journeys End’ by R.C. Sheriff, which itself was a modernist play about an infantry officer on the eve of the great German assault of March 21st 1918.
There was film of it too.

Andy,

I’m glad you didn’t think “Journey’s End” was clart – R.C. Sherriff was in the trenches in WW1 – Captain in the 9th East Surrey Regiment 1915-1918. He was wounded at Passchendaele [Wikipedia]. The ‘modernist’ bit may be artistic comment but in temporal terms the play was written in 1928 and first performed in 1929.

I remember a dramatisation of the play starring Edward Petherbridge (among others) on the BBC in 1988 (and I’ve still got a video of it somewhere) but IMDB doesn’t list a film apart from a 1918 (??) and the 1930 versions directed by James Whale (who directed Laurence Olivier (yes, him) in the first stage production) – not that *that* matters in this context.

R/K

Saw the B-17 on the open day a couple of years ago.

Muchas gracias. Thanks for the recent pic too. I had visions of it sitting in pieces in some NASM facilty outhouse analogue like “The Swoose”

R/K

If you looked at one of my threads from a few months ago I published a picture of Black 6 taken at Finningley in the early 60’s.
With regard to the Hillman Husky’s, in a nearby village that I won’t name, a former eccentric employee of Hillman has gathered a collection of Husky’s so vast that they fill what must be a 2 acre orchard, most of the worlds population must be in there. Sorry, been distracted by a heron fishing in my pond.
Apparently when the company folded he decided that the Husky had great
potential and collected every one he could find, if you don’t know about this place it’s impossible to see and find especially in summer when the foliage is high, but the sight of these cars packed together in such a rural environment is amazing. Apparently a few other gems lurk there as well.
Sorry to go off aviation, thought you might be interested.

Pete – Wow! The motor industry employed some odd people in its time 🙂 Behind the Asda in Speke/Hunts Cross, Liverpool there used to be a TR7 carcass (static restoration) on a plinth behind a metal cage, because they were afraid it was going to be nicked. The Asda was on the site of the old Triumph factory where I believe something aviation related might have been made during the war.

I wonder if we can find a field full of Hillman Huskies using Google Earth. If someone can find an aeroplane the size of a Solent.

I will look for your black 6 picture.

Rob/Kansan