Allison you really fooled me with that one, sneaky tactics, indeed. 😀

Now who is trying to BS who here? 😀

Ali

How interesting, why don’t you start a new thread on this?

It was a joke.

Ali :rolleyes:

I found the Tigger Movie quite distressing. In the movie he is regularly seen bouncing around singing “wonderful thing about Tiggers, Is Tiggers are wonderful things, Their tops are made out of rubber, Their bottoms are made out of springs, They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers Is I’m the only one”. This only goes to prove that the other occupants of thousand acre wood have hidden from Tigger that Tiggers are in the wild (rare I might add) and there is also a Tigger preservation effort at Port Lym zoo. This is an awful reflection on the other occupants that just seek to deny Tigger his cultural heritage and not allow him to mix with other Tiggers. I found that by showing this kind of movie to children is another attempt by the US to indoctrinate the youth of today to dismantle or undermine the multi culturism of this country. Quite scares me.

Ali 🙂 🙂 🙂

We also fitted the Sunderland with a full complement of Brownings! I have not read all of this thread so this may have been covered but there are 3 or 4 Sunderland wrecks in the waters off Oban between 50-180 metres down. Some of them very diveable. But locals are precious so seek permission.

There were three that were scuttled in Lough Erne too.

Ali

Yeah, Let’s have the Yank’s bombing the Dams…. In broad daylight….. with Horten 229’s defending….. and using ‘Gibsons’ 21st century ‘P.C.’ dog/codename…. SNOWBALL.

Be nice to have some realism for a change – after all; they saved Burma, invented the moving tailplane AND found/retreived the Enigma machine, among others. 😎

I loved the recovery of the Enigma machine. I did notice that with all the firing of automatic weapons inside the pressure hull of a submarine they were using the new ammo designed by that Irish American guy Rick O’Shea. 😉 :rolleyes:

Ali

So a Spitfire is worth a lot of money. So it doesn’t matter if it has a historical value for a country other than the UK. SO if you wave your wallet and shove some bits of scrap aircraft into the general direction of the poor museum involved then there is no other way but to get it out, rip it to bits, replace what’s necessary (destroying some orginality here and there) and get if flying. So, if I give enough money to the long suffering RAF Museum to take Halifax W1048 off their hands so that it can finally be restored in Holland (not exactly where it would belong, but who cares) that would be a win win situation irrespective of the few UK Halifax afficionados would be crying at the gate near Harwich when the lowloaders depart for the Hook?

The result? Museums with wrecked airframes of dubious provenance, but with lots of cash (just a guess) and several squadrons of Spitfire IX’s at airshows where bored people stay away from en masse.

I like it!!

Seriously, this is a good discussion. Let’s take it further (without teddies or hadbags) to see what good this will do to preservation.

So, do we need squadrons of Mk IX Spitfires in the air, or is diversity a better option. And what rights do National Museums have. Should they be protected or crucified for selling valuable airframes?
Cheers

Cees
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How about flogging off all the Mk IXs and rebuild the Halifax back in the air and keep it here. That would work.

Ali

Peter,

You mean EF311? Still down there probably being slowly being grinded to bits by the tide. In the two Aeroplane Monthly magazines a sketch was published showing the fuselage and wings substantially intact although the top of the fuselage was gone and the upper wingsections not in good condition either.

Will probably stay there forever because of the location (busy shipping), salt water and lack of funds. Pity really. Even the bits could be used as patterns for a restoration. Technically this is the only survivor (apart from the Russian one).

Cees

Is that article on the web somewhere?

Ali