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My sarcastic side asks does the Museum show Russian actions in the lead up of WWII until the start of Operation Barbarossa. However Somebody far smarter than me once said that victory in WWII needed all three allies, Russia provided the blood, America provided the industry and GB the stamina to stay in the fight from the start to finish. Without any one of them, the fight could well have been different.

Welcome Steve, as bar side said, us born and bred Essex boys need to stick together.

Electronics being put together in the US by BAe and the liftfans again being assembled by Rolls Royce in the US were what I was thinking of. As an aside are BAe and Rolls even British nowadays?

Those Made in Britain BAe and Rolls Royce bit are predominantly worked built and worked on in the US.

You do know the F-35 Sqns are 2/3 RAF 1/3 FAA whatever the name plate says. RAF won't be refitting these with a probe however sensible that seems. 12 jets, 2 at whatever passes for Saints nowadays, 2 in ASF, 2 on minor on the Sqn, a couple broke, because, well that is what they do, a couple on QRA bombed up (did we do that in the old days at Bruggen and Laarbruch) leaving a couple for PR purposes. Beautiful.

Wow, that is lovely. I like that very much indeed.

I am with Andres, re-set the front windscreen, maybe lift with a sliver of plastic under both sides and filler at the front edge to lift it, and I think it may become passable at 2metres/6foot.

Yes it does work on painted plastic. Kind of removes the paint while the plastic is left fine. It will work on clear parts, however I generally use some kind of PVA as it will dry clear.

If it blocks up, heat the metal dispenser tube with a lighter. Then keep the tube facing downwards.

That's a cracking model. What an odd mix of colours.

Driving test was in 1988 an RAF Metro, coming out of 431MU at RAF Bruggen and doing the test around Moechengladbach. Failed the first test for not using my mirrors enough, which was totally wrong as I had not used the mirrors at all, passed second time the following week. Somewhere I have it the Metro was a RHD, but surely not, not even the Military would be that daft they would put a learner out in a car where the steering wheel was nearest the kerb...would they... Passed my motorbike test 1995 first time round Blackburn on a 500 Honda Hornet. I was on a guaranteed pass in a week or come back for a second attempt course. The first three days I had had a nightmare which I put down to not particularly gelling with the instructor, not his fault, we just didn't get each other. Day 4 I went out with an instructor who was ex-military, and we seemed to mesh better. Day 5, test day, went out with the tester, made what I felt was an error early on at a junction that was being dug up. The tester got left behind on a red light at the next junction, he told me to carry on and he would catch up. I thought I had blown the test already, I was due to the Falklands the following month for four months and would not be able to come back until the end of the year, so I just gave it some beans for fun out around the rest of the route, particularly the countryside bit, and much to my surprise I passed.

Got a feeling Israeli Spitfires went up against RAF Spitfires at point in the 40's. Did Italian 109's go against Germans when the Italians changed side in WWII? Would be very surprised if Migs in the African continent didn't square up against each other at one point.

100% on giving your No1 shoes to the Paint Shop along with a suitable donation to their T-Bar fund or beer stash, and Flexane, 'missile nose cone paint', being applied for that shiny finish.

Burn the heretic, fire is the only way to cleanse it...

Oh I do like that, great job.