Possibly a missunderstanding here.

Using a makers plate on a car to change it’s identity is known as ringing and is illegal.

The process in the aviation world is called restoration. It basically means that you build a new aeroplane using a few small original components, and call it the restored original.

It’s a process that gets many aeroplanes back in the air and without it airshows would be much much duller, but as it isn’t used to change identities or sell aeroplanes as something they’re not, it isn’t a problem, and isn’t seen as illegal.

Willow

Good point Moggy. Best not to ask.

I think the main problem comes when you start to question which mag is inadequate.

So we won’t do that, will we !!

Willow

Hey Moggy,

if your going to use ‘Aerodrome’, you should use ‘Aeroplane’ instead of ‘Aircraft’.

‘Aircraft’ includes helicopters, microlights, gliders, and Balloons.

Still, it’s better than ‘plane’.

Willow

Good question.

To my mind, an Airport has commercial traffic, an Airstrip is grass only (i.e. no hard runway), and an Airfield is everything else. An Aerodrome is a 1930’s term for any of the above.

Of course, Airfield actually covers any of the above as well but Heathrow Airfield doesn’t sound right. Neither does Old Warden Airfield.

Hmmmm

In the USA, they have International Airports (IAP), Municipal Airports (MAP), and Regional Airports (RAP), so you can take your choice.
Then you have the military which is generally either Air Force Base (AFB) or Naval Air Station (NAS).

We, of course, refer to military bases by their operator or owner, such as RAF Coltishall or RNAS Culdrose. The latter is also known as HMS Seahawk (or is it HMS Gannet?).

Mildenhall and Lakenheath, although used by the USAF, use the British system and as they are owned by the MOD and are still known as ‘RAF’.

In general, all Military bases are known as Airfields.

Brain hurts now.

Must go before it melts

Bye

Willow

I also started a thread along these lines which has since vanished.

Is this a free world or not?

Willow

If your policy of not displaying aircraft outdoors had been applied in full for years, all of the ex-gate guardian Spitfires which are now airworthy would have been scrapped years ago.

Unlike cancer, corrosion and rust can be repaired. Man built it, man can rebuild it. Given enough time and money.

Willow

The point I am making is in reply to Moggys comment about there already being a Lincoln on display at Cosford so why do we need another. I was citing an example of another famous type with very little actual combat history. Yet no-one says that because there is already a Vulcan we do not need another.
It is selfish to think along these lines. I disagree for the following reasons….

i) Not everyone lives within easy reach of any 1 particular museum.

ii) Each aircraft (especially in the case of this Lincoln) has it’s own story to tell.

iii) People whose friends or family were killed flying in Lincolns would, I’m sure, claim it to be an important type.

and finally…..

iv) If, heaven forbid, the aircraft at Cosford was lost in an accident, there would be none in the UK.
And don’t say it can’t happen. Look at the aircraft that were lost in the hangar fires at Paris and at CWH at Hamilton.

A better example may have been that there is a very well preserved Shackelton in Manchester. Does that mean that there is no need to preserve another?

I’m sure museums such as Newark would love to have the Lincoln, if only because it provides a close link to the Lancaster.

Maybe if the owners could be contacted, they would be prepared to swap it for another airframe, or something else (money)?

Willow

If it was to go, would the wings and tail feathers be of any use to the Mosquito Air Museum at Salisbury Hall. They have a Comet 1 fuselage on display. Theres probably some differences, but it would make it into a complete aeroplane.

Willow