The Caudron Conundrum.

…for the Guild’s Annual Show in London. I reckon on about five being ready in time
Here’s a Nieuport 27 and a DFW CV surprising each other.

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Yesterday I bought a pop-rivet gun (“blind-rivetting”) in order to try and eradicate an annoying rattle from a mudguard on my Winter bike.
On Googling rivets, I was very pleased to note that the first ever application of the blind-rivet technique was on this – the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin III.

We had a walk at Silverknowes today. Met Arthur and a stick…………….

Ruthie and I had a walk to the sands of Aberlady Bay last week. This was the view when we climbed the dune at the shore. These things in the distance?

This is one of the XT class 4-man submarines lying near the shoreline.

I’ve read they were used as training for a midget-sub raid on the Tirpitz and just left there. I also heard they were used as targets for the OTU squadrons based at East Fortune. Beaufighter Fodder! Perhaps both versions are true?

This is a wee watercolour and the first painting I ever sold in an exhibition.
A nice contrast to the previous oil.

This is an oil, hopefully in the vein of Henry Farre. A wonderful aviation artist who actually did it!

Ruthie and I went to see “The Life of Pi” yesterday at the Filmhouse.
Amazing and fabulous film. Afterwards we walked down to eat at Wagamammas.
First thing I ordered. A large Tiger……………

 

A Maurice Farman MF11 over a typical Ottoman bridge during the Macedonian Campaign in the Winter of 1915.

The Ottoman Empire build many wonderful such bridges in the Balkans. For a specific historical novel, try Ivo Andric’s Nobel-prizewinning “Bridge Over the Drina”.
A marvellous, if occasionally harrowing tale.

Tony Martin and team-mate and Alessandro Petacchi at the end of a stage in Brittany at Cap Frehel won by Cav.