I’m only thinking out loud, but in those days Flight used its front cover as an advert. Could there be a Vickers advert of that time in colour for a Flight cover with the Vanguard on?

Joy was – take off the top wing & you almost had a Hurricane. So my transition was easy.

Not for nothing were the early Goshawk-powered design studies that eventually evolved in the Hurricane known as the Fury monoplane.

Then, of course, the whole process was briefly put into reverse with the slip-wing Hurri, which converted itself from a biplane to a monoplane in flight. Must have been baffling times for 1940 planespotters!

Nice ones. What’s the aircraft parked in the bottom RH corner of the final pic? Looks a bit like one of the very early Hawks, but can anyone confirm?

I posted this a year or so back, so if it looks familiar than apologies to those with good memories.
F-BMCY some time in 1970 at Filton. She had an undercarriage collapse there, too, with a prop blade penetrating the fuselage and narrowly missing a senior Sud Aviation man. Anyone know the French for ‘brown underpants’?

as for manuals how many people keep their Haynes manual after they sell the car.

Oh dear, I’m afraid I do.
Somewhere I’ve got the maker’s service manual for the van that doubled as a family car in the 1960s. There are only three or four survivors in the UK, one of whom is local and I know its owner slightly.
Spoke to him on the phone a few weeks back. Guess what? He’s already got a copy of the workshop manual.
So it’s still sitting in a bookcase. It’ll still be there in 20 years, I reckon.
*sigh*

Fair points, John Aeroclub and Atcham Tower, so back to the drawing board.
Google search of Fw-200 cabin produced this, seemingly from a recent Berlin show – presumably someone’s recreation. Looks possible, with the step up over the spar and the door offset to the right.
I suspect the original pictures been taken from quite low down rather than eye level, which makes the interior look bigger than it really is.
Apologies if I’ve trampled on anyone’s copyright, BTW.

Dan-Air Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAH Liverpool-Amsterdam, March 23 1967.
The beginning of a memorable schools exchange visit: 15 years old and off the leash!:D

From the original Daily Telegraph report:

In the short term, Ryanair expects to offer passengers the chance to make mobile phones on some of its aircraft from next month.

Well, that’s one way of keeping them out of mischief!