Careful... although it's within the rules to retract a bid because it was 'the wrong amount', there are consequences...

It seems the Canadian one was grounded in 2009 after corrosion was found in some of the prop blades. They raised some money and it's apparently flying again.

It's certainly on the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum flying schedule, and there certainly seem to be some recent photos of it in the air.

I don't think Eagle is quite right in his suggestion that 'flying condition' refers to cosmetic details only.

In the UK, 'Airworthy' means that the aircraft has a valid certificate of airworthiness, issued by the relevant authority. This isn't revoked when an aircraft is inspected and a fault found.

Aircraft are required to have regular inspections, and once they've passed, they get a document called a 'Certificate of Release to Service' issued by the maintenance organisation.

If a fault is found, then depending on what it is, the aircraft won't get this release certificate until the fault is rectified. So it's not in 'flying condition' until the fault has been fixed and the Certificate of Release to Service issued.

I believe the Canadian authorities operate in a similar way to ours.

Looks like those rainbow-like effects you get in high level clouds sometimes.

One of these things, maybe?

Edit: ah no, the sun's too low for one of those, it seems. I vote for P'phile's answer.

Gosh, thank you both. Never sold any pictures, where should I start?

Thank you

This is the same one, all growed up

At risk of going a bit off-topic, but very much on the subject of cuteness, I've often wondered if I could try and edit out the radiator in the background of this one of mine. It's the sort of thing card companies often do, so I wonder if it would be sellable at all. Is it good enough, do you think?

I like the ickle monkey

Always a sucker for cute animals, me.

Bit picky I know, but BST has finished in the UK, by the closing date of this comp. Should it be GMT?

Some information about this:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp

Usually anything of the form:

"Circulate this to all your friends... [authoritative source] has confirmed this as true.... [really bad thing will happen] "

... is itself a hoax.

Unusually, this one seems to have had at least some basis in fact, albeit several years ago.

Snopes is a great site to check these things before forwarding on the warnings.

I don't know. It may be - or it might be that that at the left hand end of the scale it's just the minimum they thought would ever be desirable.

Whether that's actually zero sharpening, I have no idea.

If you take the saturation all the way to the left, it doesn't become completely black and white though, there's still some colour.

So by the same token, perhaps it doesn't actually take the sharpness to zero.