A small thing, but I insisted that my kids bought their Duxford Airshow souvenirs from the VTTSC stall on Sunday, the whole family has Vulcan socks now, and my daughter loves her ‘Brunty Bear’, I found yet another Corgi Wessex….

As I said, small beer, but if everyone does it , it is money that you’d spend anyway, and my kids have become very enthusiastic about the whole thing

That looks too clean a break to be carbon fibre failure, that looks much more like the bonding of 2 sections has failed

Gooney Bird, you might want to post this on General Aviation as well, I know that some of those guys have frequented Ipswich International in the past

One of my course-mates on 68 Crewman Course was the youngest Sergeant in the RAF at that point at 17, I was much older at 19!

I wasn’t aware that the Goose is being (re)built, I want one of those!

There is nothing like splashing around with a big pair of radials either side of your head 😀

My own experiment was to convert the Sunderland into BOAC markings and fare over the turrets, I made the transfers out of Scotch tape, they tended to peel off with age.

Strangely enough I have a half-built one that is mid-conversion!

TT, I assume that one of your Stirlings is in the Chinese livery? 😀

Shame, it was good to learn mixing it with F27s and the occasional visiting Tornado/Chinook on approach.
I was thinking of taking a trip up there once I had re-qualled, for old times sake, but probably won’t now…..