RE: The Worlds Last ST-25 Monospar…

Didn’t Newark Monospar suffer fire damage, or am I thinking of one somewhere else?

Anyway, I believe it’s now under restoration off site but I can’t remember who with.

Willow

RE: Airspeed Oxford

I think you’ll find that the Newark example was on loan from the RAF Museum and is the one now on display in Hendon. I seem to remember that a Harvard was also on loan to Newark from the RAFM and that this is also now at Hendon.

Willow

RE: Do you build kits? Stick em up

Guilty as charged….

Currently i’ve got about 450 complete 1/72 aircraft and about another 500 unbuilt ones currently acting as loft insulation. I like to think of it as a wide ranging collection as I cover everything from a 1909 Bleriot, to the BAe Typhoon (in the juicy black scheme with 43sqn marks) but to be honest it’s mainly a WW2 collection with a bias towards british aircraft. Ive had a couple of awards at my local model club (including one for a Vacform kit of a Westland Welkin), so I can’t be too bad at it.

I’d love to show off by posting some photos but while I’m good with the camera and it seems the plastic, I havent yet mastered scanning photos into the PC.

Appropriate for this site is the following question:

Why don’t any decal manufacturers produce sets for preserved aircraft. Other than the BBMF and Sally B in her original scheme, none have been availible.

I’ve recently built the Breitling fighters in 1/72 and had real trouble with some of the markings, all of which came from the spares box. It would be nice to have a sheet for these aircraft, and those like CANDYMAN or TFC’s Hurricane for example.

Willow.

RE: Mustangs – Confession Time

G-HAEC is also still flying in the UK. It now represents the 78th Fighter Groups ‘Big Beautiflu Doll’ with the tail number 472218 and coded WZ-I. Quite why OFMC sold it and then bought another P51D is a bit of a mystery to me I’m afraid.

And yes, I’m bloody annoyed about CANDYMOOSE (you know what I mean) as I though it looked fine as it was.

Thinking about it, my first memory of it was at Mildenhall as well. I believe, ironically, that it was flown by Ray Hanna!

Hang on…..

Haven’t TFC now bought another P51D to replace CANDYMOOSE?

Can’t these people make up their minds?

Willow

RE: Lindsey Walton

As well as the Great Warbirds Airshow, Ted White was, of course, the man behind bringing Sally B to the UK in the first place.

The ‘Teddy’ was carried by all aircraft at the event as a tribute to him after his death in a T6 crash.

This is also why Sally B carries a checkerboard cowling on the starboard inner engine. This was a trademark from his T6.

Willow

MUSEUMS – Large aircraft policy.

Don’t worry. I’m sure that when Duxford section their MR3 as a walk through exhibit, it (or the remains of it) will be kept indoors.

Still, this is probably better than the fate that awaits the Varsity.

I’m sure someone like Aeroventure at Doncaster would love the Varsity, but I guess the transport costs would be huge. A shame because Varsitys are getting rare now and this one used to be a flyer.
It just shows what happens to large aeroplanes that are left outside and not looked after.

Not at all bitter and twisted
Willow

Can I just add ‘Comet R2’ and ‘Convair VT29A’!

RE: German aircraft carrier

Dear oh dear, you are bored at work today aren’t you DOUGHNUT!!

Wonder what difference all this would have made if it had been completed?