Just to be pedantic the Shackleton Turret is not a type L. At least according to the manual. It does move though, 20 deg either side and 5 deg up and 30 deg down.

OK, I wasn’t going to make any more comments on this subject, but!

The level of arrogance and inaccurate information is now at an all time high.

To help you understand I’ll say this slowly.

Paint stripped Sea Prince.
Found six or seven layers of paint and primer.
Some of layers were DayGlo, lowest layer, that nearest the metal was red.
For AMBs benefit; not orange, not DayGlo, not orangelike but red, as in red. Please don’t make me repeat it again, you’ve already worn that one out.
That’s not from a book,third hand, dodgy photos but actually on the airframe.
It doesn’t matter how many times you put up a picture showing a Prince in its current top coat colour, it does not show the colours that are beneath the top coat. Why is that so difficult to comprehend? We are not saying that all airframes were in this colour, but this one it seems was.

Chox please try to get the facts right, I understand your natural desire to be right 100% of the time but sadly you are not. Just a couple of corrections, I never called you an “armchair expert”, I believe that was my colleague MJR. You’re wrong about the Meteor also, the colours it wears were painted when it was at North Weald, a little simple research would have shown you that. Still lets not facts ruining a good slagging eh! You appear to have decided to try to denigrate GAMs effort to preserve airframes. I could go on picking to pieces your inaccurate assertions but I don’t know what it would gain. To be absolutely honest personally I really don’t actually care about your views, amusing as some are, we will continue to try to maintain and breath some life in these old birds no matter what colour they are. If you don’t like what we are doing, well to quote Chox, “tough”. Actually I think we may have some fun with colour schemes this year! The Vixen could be a good candidate, she’s due some remedial work.

The many visitors to the museum (–noun
a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.) all seem to be pleased and are very complimentary about what we are doing.

We always pleased to welcome anyone to the museum to wonder at our oddly painted collection, and I mean anyone.

Oh dear Chox!

You are obviously an expert on Sea Prince colours, not!
The red used on the Sea Prince predates the use of Dayglo.

We found the original red when the nose was stripped a few years ago.
In fact the other airframe is going through the same process at the moment and guess what, the lowest layer is red not Dayglo.

Dayglo is a real pain outside, it only lasts a few months even with “the proper” lacquer coat, so finding the red was a bonus.

On the other hand, the blue on the Bucc came out of the tin a different colour than it said it was and dried to the lighter shade, it should be corrected this year.

Yes, I know a man (one of our number) who has both versions diagrams. I’ll contact him and get copies for you. PM when I’ve got them for address info etc.

It’s also interesting to know where the nearby hill was. I lived at St. Eval in the mid seventies and I’m struggling to remember much high ground in the immediate area. There may have been slightly higher ground nearby, to call it a hill was a bit of an exaggeration. Difficult to remember where you could overlook the airfield anywhere in that area. I also find it highly unlikely that any explosion damaged buildings in St. Merryn, it’s almost as far as Padstow! If damage was felt that far away then St. Eval would have been flattened! Always interesting to see how the story about real events change over time, makes you wonder how factual our so called “known history” is.

Of course they could have looked at a more modern design, after all the Boeing P8 is a development of the much newer 737, that didn’t take to the air until 9 April 1967! A real advance that will be, when it enters service, only 44 years old so far. Some real jokers on here lately……