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No it couldn't: it has been conserved to protect its condition as-found, in a museum which treats originality very seriously; take a look at their Corsair. "Restored" (for static) usually means removing parts which are cosmetically unacceptable and replacing them with new; "restored" (for...

Lots of verbal fellatio in evidence here; I strongly suspect many of those getting tumescent haven't even served. My branch of service was bound by the Official Secrets Act; we knew that its strictures lasted beyond the extent of our active service. So what? Seeing people tug themselves off...

I think your A320 must have been a lemon: I've flown on many Airbus single-aisle aircraft and they are quiet and smooth.

The day I get annoyed by lengthy texts in books will be the day I stop reading. Til then the more the merrier!

I like the XB-19, but it's no looker. I always thought those heavily-framed cockpit and turret glazings looked like the sort of bomber types we used to draw as kids.

Incidentally, it's possible that your man evaded capture by the Japanese, rather than actually being captured. It's just a thought, but might explain the slight change in story during its re-telling across the decades. I'd be interested to know how you obtained this record too!

WW2 records like this shouldn't be available via genealogy websites.

It's doubtful; the term doesn't skew with the timeline. This chap was a Safety Equipper, so it's more likely to be "Safety Equipment Wxxx School"....

And when the B-52 retires, there'll be a KC-135 fly-by! We had a 58- or 59-FY aircraft operating locally this last week.

Karen, Your chap was in India with 27 Squadron at the start of the war, then returned home via Ceylon and seems to have spent the rest of the war in the West Country. This is how I decipher the "WW2" parts of the record: Station Risalpur 04Aug39 27 Sqn, Risalpur 26Nov39 (Wapiti/Hart/Blenheim)...

"A-37" is B-26K Counter Invader. But what a show!

I think it was a joke?.....

BAC 221; never "Fairey Delta type 221", even if it was derived from the latter. BAC test pilot was Godfrey Auty, not Geoffrey.

It's an unnecessary solution to something that's not really an issue IMHO. My mother-in-law (bless her departed soul) used to buy loads of crap that represented the same sort of thing: answers to questions no-one had asked. One was a serrated credit-card thing that grated garlic. Being made of...

He died; he didn't pass anything as far as I know.