The critics would have had field day, if they noticed this. I have to say it's not something I've noticed. Possibly an engineer sitting on the starboard wing root, leaning in to switch the engine off properly? The cockpit door is on that side.

I missed this event and also the 'opportunity' to 'dress up' like my colleagues in the second image.
No prizes for guessing who the 'real' (retired) RAF officer is here!
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Are we all stupid? 🤔
This is what the newspaper film critics thought of the historical masterpiece that is 'The Battle of Britain' in 1969.
Shocked! That's what I am. 😂
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A 1959 film from Pathe News, showing the (then, quite new) Blackburn Beverley involved in an airborne exercise on Salisbury Plain. The other type shown is the Handley Page Hastings.
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An interior view of the cockpit of an Avro Manchester Mark I of No. 207 Squadron, based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire,
It shows the captain, Flying Officer P Burton-Giles seated at the controls and the observer or front gunner in the nose section. IWM © image. 🤭

Trev Clark's Obscure Aviation History 🚁 Speaking as a recently retired 30yr Police Officer. PCCs are a hugely expensive, arrogant, interfering, bunch of power crazed, clueless buffoons.
They simply have no idea, exist to get re-elected and there is no reason for them to exist

The Westland Wessex HC2, my first (professional) love! ♥️💕

We have an election for Police and Crime commissioner for Dyfed/Powys tomorrow.
But what do these people do?? No doubt they are well paid, but nobody seems to know if they make any difference, is it just 'jobs for the boys'?
Possibly, for the first time, I'll not vote. Thoughts?

A long way to come for most of you, but next week's talk looks interesting.

Do Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain period get any more iconic than this one?
Dog-check, Bentley-check, Camouflaged caravan...?
Oh well, two out of three ain't bad! 😂

My (unscientific) poll has suggested that the IWM Collection at Duxford is the most popular aviation museum in the UK.
Despite a rather high admission fee, I think the additional heritage companies working there offset this. Thanks to all who voted👍

Postman Pat? 📮
A lovely postcard from the not too distant past.
I remember the time when a fleet of elderly British (and almost exclusively Rolls Royce Dart powered) aircraft flew the nightly mail service around the UK. Does this still happen?

I know a lot of my followers donated to this incredible project, so I'll continue reposting every significant update from Solway Aviation Museum.

For a comparatively small aircraft, the Junkers Ju-188 had plenty of rearward defensive armament!
I do wonder how the top turret gunner manages to rotate his turret without kicking his crew mate manning the lower hand-held position?

What a wonderful document!
If I'm reading the annotations correctly, many of these chaps died in accidents, rather than by enemy action. A timely reminder of the high casualty rate involved with wartime military flying training, no matter what branch of service one joined.

I love this and think it should be brought back, including the uniform and peaked cap!

*not to be sold in North Korea. 😂

Many people will recognise a Junkers Ju-88...but what else is of interest in this image?? 🤔

People have remarked on an article on the World's top 10 aviation museums, that I posted.
I thought I'd narrow it down to the UK in a poll and see what comes up. 🤔
If 'none of the above' gets most votes, I'll run it again, with new museums, so put your choice down as a comment.