Duxford

I visited yesterday for the 2nd time since Ray Hannas passing. I don’t think it’s somewhere I’ll be returning to in a hurry. 1st time I’ve ever eaten in the dump next to the entrance, how on earth is that place allowed to trade? £7.50 for a diabolical dry sausage roll, over fried oven chips & a spoonful of happy shopper baked beans, then a sandwich that had to be dunked in my pepsi to moisten it enough to eat took the bill to £17.80.
I found the museum to be dead, no atmosphere like there used to be. Always found many engineers & pilots wandering around the site that you could talk to & they’d talk to you enthusiastically, now the engineers that I saw were just staring into the work they were doing like it was a chore & they couldn’t be bothered. Yesterday was the 1st time ever I had not seen Dave Lees at work, is he still alive? I only ever used to go to Duxford just to see what was happening with OFMC & TFC, now OFMC aren’t there anymore TFC were what I was hoping to get to see but all I saw was tumbleweed!!!
Even the shop has changed, very child orientated & little for the true enthusiast to look at.