I think I remember once being told, “The aeroplane gets paid, we don’t ” cannot remember who said it though.

Celebrities don’t pay for their rides, they are invited.

I am sure costs were covered on both Top Gear and the Ewan McGregor’s but of course sometimes both parties gain out of it all.

I will be booking a flight, missed mine in PA474 back in the 70s !

Andy, I wondered about the battle dress but thought they may of been Army ones dyed ones.

Is it not a mirror to see if the turret is in correct position/retracted/ to see if crew member is ok?

The tail Oleo looks very high, was there a reason?

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Lots of scams going on Ebay at the moment, listings being taken down ….QUOTE]

I think someof that “newish” problem is due to some new Ebay policy of “Automatically relisting” auction items that did not sell. It aways USED to be the policy, that you had to go to Ebay and decide if you wanted to re-list or not. If sellers did NOT get their minimum price the first time, and do NOT want to list it for less, they now have to go to Ebay and take the item down.

If you had seen the cloked Emails I had, it was nothing to do with the listing, they had zero feedback and ebay banned them but they just used clocked Paypal/ebay emails

It looks stainless to me, very aircraftish, does that stencil not say PILOT?