Classic British Aircraft

I've been keenly watching the tv documentary series on Discovery "Classic British Aircraft" narrated by none other than Harry Enfield. He's actually a good narrater but I'm always expecting him to slip into the Mr Cholmondeley-Warner characters but he somehow manages to restrain himself quite well.

Its a nostalgic history of ,as the title suggests, romantic old aircraft designed and built in Britain dating back to mostly the 30's/40's and 50's.  The coolest sections are seeing the now mostly elderly gentlemen who would have maintained and flew these aircraft restoring them and getting them flying again. It seems a mammoth task getting old bits and pieces from all over the place and manging to rebuild them ready to fly...very impressive and makes me all misty eyed for some reason. There are some of my all time favourite aircraft on show, the first British Jet Fighter, the Gloster Meteor and the elegant De Havilland Dragon Rapide...jolly good.