Tony has done a smashing job. My hat is off to him. 😎

Not the cockpit glass armour.
If you follow the panel that’s over the fuel tank down to the side you can see the edge of the panel is standing proud, hence there’s a shadow.
Is that armour?
One of the aircraft has a small window on that panel.

Yes, that’s the fuel tank armour.

A quick question regarding the Spitfires.
If you look at the picture with the pilots close-up, one of the nose cowlings is a rather poor fit (or so it seems).
This is obviously correct as it is the same on all three.
So why is it like that?

You mean directly in front of the windscreen? It’s armour plate.

How in gods name are they going to afford to move the nimrod. just cost the raf a small fortune to move cosford one

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the bigger airframes were parted with, maybe combined with a donation drive to move others.

Careful! I’ll bring up the rudder mod plate again! 😀

so… no one else took a camera then? :rolleyes:

Give ’em a chance. It only ended yesterday and it’s still 9am.

We fought for our lives during the Blitz on such places as London,Coventry,Liverpool,Bristol and I could go on and on. Our side destroyed Dresden which was of no military significance. British Civilian deaths were 67000 during the war.

Paul, this isn’t personally aimed at you but I do wish people would stop repeating that tosh about Dresden!

At the time it was bombed, it was one of the primary logistical points for the German Army on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. It had extensive railway marshaling yards, a vital transshipment port for goods being barged along the Elbe and key railway and road bridges over the river. It was of immense importance to the German war effort at the time. All of those targets were in the middle of the old/new city and as you mentioned, given the Blitz and the ongoing V weapon attacks collateral damage to the civilian population fell firmly under the category of “Tough Luck”.

Here’s a zombie thread from 2004 that crawled out of the grave recently and pretty much covers it.

Typhoon Parts?