Not quite the scene I had in mind….. 😮

How about setting up a picture in front of the Lanc with the current operating crew lined up on the right in their modern flight gear with a composite crew of genuine surviving oldtimers in period flight gear lined up seperately on the left, with the image faded to sepia tones down the middle?

Could also be done the same with a Spit and Hurricane?

I think it would be a very nice poignant touch, especially as there are fewer and fewer of these old boys with us these days.

Make a nice change from the Aeroplane being the star all the time.

Can’t open your images, but the engine is definately sleeve valve radial, almost certainly a Hercules thus pointing to the Beaufighter hunch.

One of the resident Beaufighter experts may be able to confirm on the panel.

Can’t we turn this into a gratuitous Shackleton picture thread now?

One of my favourites indeed after growing up with them during my formative years in Elgin.

Four Griffons in close formation………Ahhhhhhhh…

Dig those pics out folks!

Looks very nice Oleg, is she a flier?

It’s not a Vickers Valiant by any chance is it?

Thats the correct wings alright.

I guess that they reverted to an RHS within RHS design for the 22, with the addition of the steel doublers noted.

Where are the Spitfire experts when you need them eh? :rolleyes:

I always thought that the spar booms were laminated pre-Griffon & solid from XIV onwards?

Did they revert to laminated for 20 series?