Some guys are living our dream...

[Carts]

Lovely pictures,Thanks for the info

[whoarmongar]

Its nice to see old planes preserved, but is it just me or does it seem to anyone else that seeing them parked in a display hanger they just seem kinda , well, dead, lifeless, not the vibrant living things they once were.
In fact they may as well be those fibreglass replicas like them spitfires on plinths you see outside RAF stations, rather like lifesize versions of those airfix models I used to make as a child.
Im also suprised that musiums dont organise more "exchanges" swap you a English Electric Lightening for a starfighter, or perhaps a mosquito for a JU88, or maybe a Marauder for a betty ?
Ps Is their a Tempest anywhere ? or a Whirlwind ?

[IvanK]

Tempest II in the Static hall at RAF Hendon, Tempest V hanging from the roof in the First hall at Hendon as well.

Whirlwind ... I don't think any airframes still exist.

[Richie]

I'm sure that Bouchon is Harold Kindsvater's. If the Germans own it now maybe they'll put a Daimler Benz in it. Hope so.