I’ll try to get to Lavenham next week, unfortunately life is too busy this week for me to be able to compile an full report….
Sad to say that despite living in the area for 25 years (apart from a brief stay in Norfolk) I’ve never yet made it in to The Swan.

Small request Moggy, next time you are offering Adnams, any chance of picking a subject I know something about???

The clam doors are held up by hydraulic pressure, when parked it is generally standard practice to release the hydraulic pressure in the system via the pressure dump handle, hence the doors then drop. This also saves you from retracting the undercarriage etc in error on the ground.
If the dump valve is not pulled then as the pressure drops off the doors will start to drop but not evenly.

So it must be a different team to those who built the Vimy…. Seems an interesting idea, but dare I ask why????? Seems a massive undertaking for little return. Best of luck to them however.

Where is this beast being built? UK, US, or elsewhere?

Seems amazing to me, go away for a couple of days and a war breaks out at Duxford. Would as much fuss have been made had ARCO/HFL chosen to base themselves at a different airfield somewhere? Should we not be thankfull that there are a group of engineers working hard to rebuild and preserve some very rare aircraft which are then regularly on public view on the same airfield. It must be very difficult for all the engineers at Duxford to maintain concentration with hundreds of people asking questions day in day out.
Guess this has all got a bit out of hand, think I’ll crawl back into a little hanger in the peace and quiet of the countryside now.

I know a Stephen Arnold, he’s a tax man….. However he has nothing to do with Flying A Services. Doubt he’d know what he was doing with aircraft however…. That said I’m sure David Arnold knows exactly what he’s doing with his own aircraft. One problem being finding a permanent location in the UK to house the aircraft.
Can’t think of any of their aircraft that have gone back into a container after rebuild, however they do have aircraft that remain in their containers after being imported / re-imported…..