Jasper Fforde.com : Picture of the Week 73

I have about 60,000 pictures in my library, taken from 1977 until the present, some of which are barely rubbish at all. 'Picture of the Week' does not actually mean this week, but any week, picked at random. Scroll down to read the caption. Other pictures by Mari and Jasper Fforde can be found at Ffotographica, and to see previous Pictures Of The Week, click here.

Wellington Wing Construction, 2003

This Vickers Wellington Mk1a was ditched in Loch Ness in 1940, and was recovered in 1985. It is now sitting in a hangar at Brooklands Museum, Surrey. Only one of two extant Wellingtons in the world, this is considerably more intersting than the example in the Hendon museum, because you can see the bare bones of the structure, and the 'geodetic' design championed by Barnes Wallis. There is a Hurricane in the same Hangar salvaged from a bog in Russia, and the prototype Harrier. Well worth a look.