Aeronautical heritage

Where would we put them all ? In the hangar at Woodford, which would be spared the demolition men who I believe are currently on site………….
Andy

Where would we put them all ? 🙂

Well I grew up in Blackpool and even been to Stanley Park, even just a few years ago, and I had no idea that had been an aerodrome in the past, I was told the Bus Station had some aircraft connection in the War but can’t remember what.

Anyway for me apart from some mentioned here, Hornet, Brabazon, Wvvern, the Martin Baker MB5

Westland Wyvern…….would be marvellous to see and hear a flying version at airshows….however, I would settle for a static version. Most distinctive engine
sound. Closest I’ve heard since is an Avanti, passing overhead at 30,000 ft.

I’ll enthusiastically second that!! Great memories of the Wyvern at Ford in the early fifties. And, as you say, a never to be forgotten sound.

Stanley Park aerodrome Blackpool. It was ofthe art deco 1930s design and was still in use during WW2,postwar Squires Gate took over and the aerodrome became the site for an annual agricultural show but buildings remained. It could have become an air museum but instead became a zoo with extra costs(aircraft have no vets bills and dont need special heating and feeding).The elephant enclosure sits in fromt of the control tower.

The Slingsby Gull 2.

+! :eagerness:

Westland Wyvern…….would be marvellous to see and hear a flying version at airshows….however, I would settle for a static version. Most distinctive engine
sound. Closest I’ve heard since is an Avanti, passing overhead at 30,000 ft.

An airworthy Lancaster with a complete working set of onboard avionic systems, including radios, H2S, GEE, AGLT etc. Airframes might survive, but only with incomplete systems, if any at all.

Andy

Hallibags, Stirling and Hornet have to top the list of UK types unrepresented. It’s not like the Hornet was even a massive thing to store. As individual a/c, the Spit’ prototype, yes…and a Dams Lanc’. Umm….a few Typhoons, so we’d have had a chance of a flier would have been nice too…..:-)

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The Hornet “Prototype” (not sure which one: RR915 or RR919) survived at Hatfield along with the Mosquito Prototype into the 50’s. Constraints on storage space dictated that they both be burnt, but fortunately the Mosquito was squirreled away for preservation against orders.

I’d hazard that some white elephants are best left to the history books-I’d probably leave the Brabazon and Princess where I found them, along with the Botha and Lerwick.
But I’d definitely grab the Whirlwind, G-AGOI, some Typhoons, British-built Beauforts and Beaufighters, a Whitley or two, some of the myriad “lost” Axis types, a BOAC Comet 1…and enough sapphire engines to get a Javelin airworthy.

The Brabazon and the Princess.

Hallibags, Stirling and Hornet have to top the list of UK types unrepresented. It’s not like the Hornet was even a massive thing to store. As individual a/c, the Spit’ prototype, yes…and a Dams Lanc’. Umm….a few Typhoons, so we’d have had a chance of a flier would have been nice too…..:-)

The Supermarine Sea Eagle G-EBGR stored for many years at Heston Airport before being set on fire outside in the mid 1950’s instead of being saved as a museum piece .

The Slingsby Gull 2.

Tangmere, as a live airfield – like Biggin but, better.

The Westland Whirlwind that survived at Yeovil postwar, a Stirling, a Hornet, an O/400, an HP-42 and the Mew Gulls that were burned at a garden party at Luton just after the war.

As many of the original manufacturing drawings that were destroyed/disposed of as possible “Blackburn’s, Miles, Gloster’s, Avro’s, General aircraft, Short’s, DeHavilland, Armstrong Whitworth, Martinsyde etc etc”.

Bob T.

My entry. Short Stirling bomber, why oh why weren’t any saved?

In that line – B-32 Dominator.

That there Duxford hanger…………..KABOOM!

We don’t need to time travel !! We havn’t saved a Carvair or Bristol Frieghter in the U.K despite them being available at different times !