I think I’d call a Valetta a variation rather than a different type, but I understand what you’re saying.
When was the last Viking flight, BTW? I remember seeing three or four of them together at Manston (Invicta AW) in about 1966 or 7, but they can’t have gone on much longer.

Am I right in thinking the 1920s G-E*** sequence ended with G-EBZZ? For a truly authentic 1943 period registration you’d be looking at something in the G-AG** sequence, surely.
I take the point though about G-ECAN at least looking a bit more authentic that a collision of consonants. And it does look nice.

Biggles again. Plus a copy of a wartime aircraft recognition handbook by C H Gibbs-Smith and a Puffin Picture Book on aircraft with drawings by Wren. Plus also the fact that as small child apparently I was reduced to a bawling wreck by the noise of a Sea Fury at an air display. OK, it’s not a book, but all part of the childhood influences.
As I grew older, the Macdonald series of books on warplanes of the second world war by William Green inspired further interest, then later Flight without Formulae by A C Kermode, then as a student Lanchester on Aerodynamics (which has LOADS of formulae!)

This lot any use? July 7 1978 according to my notes.

I read somewhere quite recently – but can’t remember where – that Heinz Guderian was asked by the Russians what he thought the turning point in the war was.
They expected the answer Stalingrad, and were mightily miffed when he replied “the Battle of Britain”.:D

I remember it as a noisy little blighter. Presumably the one that was often seen (and heard) aroud Liverpool was G-APVE.

OK then, where would we all dispose of, say, eight fairly realistic plastic Lancasters, assuming a couple are destroyed in crash sequences?
The United States has only the remains of KB976 as far as I know, so we could let one or two go to the US. But what about the rest?