Obviously you’ll have to buy second hand, but you should be able to get entry-level Nikons or Canons in that price range. D40, D50 or the Canon equivalent, that kind of think. Or maybe an Olympus E500 – not quite an Canon or Nikon, but a decent camera nontheless.

From Avro: an Aircraft Album, published by Ian Allan 1973 (page41):

“Ten further orders were eventually placed for 504Ns making a total of 572 built for the RAF before production ceased with K2423 in 1932. In addition a large number of 504Ks were rebuilt and re-engined to make them into 504Ns.”

[Edit] Apparently rebuilt 504Ks retained full-chord ailerons, while new-build 504Ns had tapered ailerons. It’s an Armstrong-Siddeley Lynx, BTW.

Here goes. Yonks ago, when I was younger, more foolish and, most importantly, carrying a skinful of beer.
I arrived back at my flat and found I’d locked myself out. No problems, the bathroom window was open on the first floor and I was a moderately competent rock climber. A layback up the pipework was easily within my capabilities…
Not in open-toed sandals and slightly (oh go on then, considerably) the worse for wear. Just as I was about to make the final move in through the window, something gave way and I peeled off and descended to earth with a crash. No time to be frightened or anything, just bemusement at the large hole that had appeared in my right arm.
Two dozen stitches and a thumping handover later it finally dawned on me that there for the grace of god went a life in a wheelechair or even no life at all. I’ve still got a hefty scar to remind me not to be so damn silly, although the 30 years that have passed have brought some wisdom. Not much, but some!

Nagging mode on………………..

So it’s … La (Lavochkin), Pe (Petlyakov), Po (Polikarpov) etc.

MiG is the first letter of the join designers/founders name – Mikoyan AND Guryevich (where the Cyrillic letter i is the equivalent of the western &) – so it’s M AND G….. capital M, small i, capital G

Nagging mode off……

Ken

If it’s nagging you want, what about poor old Gorbunov and Gudkov – Lavochkin’s first were the LaGG-1 and LaGG-3, after all.

People have been sent to the salt mines for less:D

Yes, of course the average coroner is neither an aircraft engineer nor a serviceman. But he is a highly-educated and intelligent person who’s paid to ask informed and awkward questions about any death that’s seen as being in any way not natural. In this area he’s just doing his job, and in the case of the Oxford coroner doing it pretty well from what I’ve read and seen today.

From a military point of the view neither the UK nor Nato can afford to have the Nimrod fleet grounded. But if today’s remarks from Oxford serve to sharpen senior minds within the Government/MoD/RAF about the urgent need to replace the Nimrod then so much the batter.

At least when things went wrong in 1939-45, flawed aircraft were modified or withdrawn PDQ – think of early Typhoons losing their tails, or anything Vulture-powered. I know full well that Nimrods haven’t been dropping out of the skies by the dozen, but it’s not right that what seems to be known problem has been allowed to continue for so long.

Wasn’t it Lord Jellicoe who remarked as yet another British capital vessel went down at the battle of Jutland ‘something wrong with our bloody ships!’ Jutland was a naval stalemate that at least saw the German fleet retreat to its harbours for the rest of the war, but if the British vessels had been less prone to burning so fiercely after a couple of hits, the battle on the seas may have been more decisive in the British favour and the war consequently shorter.

I don’t want to stretch the parallel too far, but history is learning from our mistakes, after all

Do you mean like a Rolls-Royce Dart?

Ahhh, local papers, gawd bless ’em.