Behind the scenes: Bunker de-classified...

Tally Ho aeronauts!

What with all this freedom of information clap trap that's all the rage now, the sinister powers that be here at the M.O.D. Top Secret Bunker, Biggin Hill, A233 Kent, U.K.
(ahem!) sensed a p.r. opportunity.

Fortunately my very talented (so the Ladies say) cousin was available. He is a top photographer with a high security clearance, who also has some considerable knowledge of covert ops...

Anyway, the champagne flowed, the female staff swooned, and a great day was had by all (ooh behave...)

So here's all the official photos of our clandestine base that they would allow out into the WWW after checking the small print on the official secrets act...




My car

Lt Carruthers car



My transport plane


Lt Carruthers planes





The Staff Bar & Restaurant











Our Sports and Social Club





Our lovely receptionists at our custom GE747 cowling reception desks. Strange there was only this one photo, Austin was down there for some time...(ooh behave!)




Our Science Dept receptionist, and Q's right hand, Dr May Givehead (ooh will you behave!) at her custom DC9 desk


And Austin's pictured Dr May Givehead again, for some reason. She seems to have changed her clothes in this one...is that a saucy nightie under her coat..?


Wait a tad, that's a man's coat she's wearing...
Oh, Austin I told you to behave!



My always stunning very personal secretary Lt Carruthers at her custom GE747 cowling desk



My office bar




My fish tank



My Chair


My custom B25 bomber desk



And of course, our custom mile high bed.

Ooh I really should behave.

I really should...

Coming Carruthers...







( with special thanks to the very talented chaps at http://www.motoart.com/ for their custom furniture)

Angels from Heaven

via videosift.com

So, I got a few old heli's, a balloon & some meccano ...

Intel says it's the Piasecki PA-97 Helistat (U.S. Navy and U.S. Forest Service 1986), a $40 million experimental heavy-lift aircraft, built by Frank Piasecki by fastening four obsolete Sikorsky H-34J helicopters to a framework beneath a ZPG-2W helium blimp...

Designed to lift 26 tons, flight tests proved it to be so unstable as to be uncontrollable. It crashed at Lakehust, New Jersey in July 1986, killing one of the pilots.

Beware of thieves in the night...

Mission de-brief

I, and some junior Intel Officers surveyed the ancient aircraft the SAS had found abandoned in the desert We thought they'd perfect for our clandestine operations. Made of string and wood, y'see, so invisible to the enemy's radar...




As I had heroically volunteered for the most dangerous mission, despite my lovely Carruthers begging me not to, I thought it best to false flag my aircraft in case the bugger got shot down.



Rather classically, I thought, we set off at dawn...


Our mission was two fold...

One: Locate & Destroy the enemy's prototype aerial battleship. Intel Cor thought this might give our ground forces some serious strafing hassle.



Two: Stop the supply trains so they couldn't build another of this terrifying leviathans...



We attacked against all odds...


And destroyed our objectives...







We returned to our base...
..safely, though some not quite as unscathed as others...



However, we all got that al important hero's welcome home!

TTFN!

Undie cover

Hi ya Flyboys, Lt Carruthers here.

Can't let the Old Wing Co have all the glory...
Just to let you all you guys know I'm safe and well, and I've been on secret missions too. Long, hot desert nights under deep cover with the old buffoon. What a gal has to do her country!

So here's one for my fans, taken by Wing Co himself, after we'd dusted orf a few enemy cabbage crates.

As you can see, my nimble little fighter picked up a few bullet holes, but most fortunately, the champagne did not pop prematurely.

( yes I have it on tap, come on you wouldn't begrudge a lady her luxuries would you gentlemen? )

Hope to catch you later, boys, Lt Carruthers, xxx

Sshhh planes

Snuck these piccies on the home run from the last oppo.

Believe it or not, these big buggers flew right under me ol' biplane. Nearly shook it to bits - it's only an old string bag after all!

Anyhow, looks like our boffin type chaps are playing around with solar panel hybrid designs to save the old fossil fuels a tad.

They're definitely quieter, whispering buggers took completely by surprise.

Lucky they weren't the Bosch, what!

Back in action!

Tally Ho chaps and chapettes, Wing Co's back!

Sorry for the long delay in posting Intel, but I've been deep behind enemy lines.
Something to do with defence cutbacks and yours truly being the one the few (Literally, - God I miss my Spitfire) old enough to remember how to fly stringbags. We'd left them in the desert eons ago, and a SAS patrol were suprised and delighted to find them in fairly good condition. Something to do with the old dry air. So, got the call from Her Madge, God bless her, would I mind doing bit for the old Country (God bless it) again... So, one's been strafing the buggers, spying on 'em etc, etc and had maintain the old wireless silence, don't you know.
Hasn't been all bad. What with the all that camping out under the desert night stars with me sexy ground crews...





See you soon. Keep checking back, over...