Doesn’t help much but:

http://www.elvington.org/

And remember too, that this aeroplane is the way in which the Panton’s pay a personal tribute to their brother, who IIRC, was Halifax aircrew (unless you wish them to conjure up a non existent airframe).

If my Euro lottery numbers came up that is exactly what I would do. Put my energy and resources into the non existent lesser known airframes…. But it is their money and aeroplane.

That is rather good….

I wish the Canadians had got some of their Halifaxes back to Canada at wars end… I bet they would have at least one working one today. They are much better at looking after their war heritage than us in the UK.

To get this thread back to a bit of normallity…..

I thought the programme was good and well balanced.

I watched her do the commentary on the 100th flypast yesterday at 1:00pm…. And felt that to be such a disapointment.

Not her fault: the director was rubbish. They kept cutting from one aircraft in the flypast to another never lingering for more than a second before cutting to an image of the queen, crowd, RAF regiment etc. So she and the others talking couldn’t give any coherent commentary. It was so disjointed which was a shame as she did her best.

I liked the Dakota flying by itself before the BBMF…..

Thanks for all your and the teams hard work and dedication on this.

BBC Breakfast had an article on the opening of the building housing “the last Concorde to fly” going under cover. Interviewing an engineer and pilot. (Morris)…. Sadly all the pilot wanted to talk about was golf….. Usually the BBC’s website adds an article but in this case I can’t find one.

Sadly I agree with Cees… I’m a Hurricane, Halifax and Victor man myself but that seems to be the minority.

As WWII dissapears into the history books beyond living memory, and cheap research by journalists becomes the norm the myth of the Spitfire and Lancaster winning the war will just grow at the expense of all the other warbirds, and there will be little interest in rebuilding the “lesser” well know types.

I did wonder why there were no Halibags, Stirlings etc saved after the war but talking to my mum (Who lost her brother on bombers) she just said that when it was all over there was no appetite to save anything the country was so war weary they just wanted rid of the lot, and thinking about it the only reason we have a so many Lancasters left was that the Canadians took them back to Canada… If only they had got a couple of Squadrons of Halifaxes back there at least a couple would have been preserved.

Even if I won the lottery I wouldn’t have deep enough pockets.

Glad we are having this discussion but a bit disapointed that YAM’s fantastic Halifax is even being drawn into this!

PN323’s nose should be a on much greater public display….. If the nose was a Lanc nose no doubt it would have been restored regardless of cost and be be on prominant display as the bomber that won the war……