Now you have revealed the mistake ,which i didnt see anyway , its totally ruined it for me , this type of sloppiness really makes my blood boil , I shall be writing to my MP ,
Yours Angry of Sheffield
Yours Angry of Sheffield
Fantastic Ron. Top build. Some of those images would look awesome in black and white. Looks like the real thing.
Yes I did Dave. Thank you for the link. They looked amazing.Steve, I can only think you missed these images in black and black!
Hi Ron. Didn't want to do this without checking with you first but do you mind if I send your Lanc pictures taken in dusk light to my brother, He would be very interested to see them.
Thanks Ron.Steve, of course you can, and I'm chuffed you think them good enough to share with others.
Ron
........you do need to weight your tyres though...I can't help but see a helium filled Lanc. ...getting my coat.....taxi!!!
Cheers,
Richard
...ah, but Richard, all is not what it seems to the casual viewer, and your writings are absolutely spot on....Quite uncanny really, so top marks, as no one else spotted the aircraft for what it is!
What you see is indeed a helium filled prototype being tested by the British Air Ministry in early '43. If accepted, they were to be manufactured en-mass, then placed in groups around rural Lincolnshire, giving the impression of the RAF having far more operational Heavy Bombers than they actually had.
Unfortunately, the plan was a failure. The 'Blow ups' did just that and blew up! This was put down to an excess of a rather aggressive strain of bees, which hatched during the very warm summer of 1943, all trying to make new homes, and not as was first thought, the very hot weather expanding the gas .
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