That’s the idea, after alighting from the steam powered train, your four cylinder Austin 10 or maybe a Morris Oxford taxi takes you to the airport where you do not see any x-ray machines, customs officers and climb the airstairs to your Douglas Dakota, Bristol Freighter or Airspeed Ambassador…

http://www.lydd-airport.co.uk/documents/The_case_for_LAA.pdf

….for your flight across the Channel to Le Touquet where the train is waiting for you on the apron (have they ripped up the tracks here?).

Just wait till you cross the International Date Line – that will soon sort out the men from the boys :dev2: :dev2: :dev2:

I should imagine that BN are delighted to be described as a maker of ‘spy planes’ in the Daily Telegraph. Does their image no harm at all.

Next thing you know they will be offering a Mini AWACS for the MASC roll for the UK CVF carriers. All based upon the Islander of course :diablo: 😮 😀

There is the CASTOR fitted Islander ZG989 is I suppose is a mini AWACS

There were a couple stored in a hangar at Farnborough a few years ago (before they started building the TAG complex on the northern side. G-BMPL springs to mind as one and the other might have been Spanish.

Actually, scrapping British was more the game in the sixties. Try looking up all the home grown projects that were scrapped in that decade.

In fact pretty much anything from the infamous Duncan Sandys ‘no more manned aircraft’ speech onwards. And lets not forget that TSR-2 was not the only project cancelled by Healey.

Ultimately, politics with a capital P and a small p was the root of the downfall of thr TSR-2. The forced marriage of EE and Vickers with the accompanying infighting – like where was the first flight going to take place – Wisley, warton or Boscombe as well as governmental politics and deference to US projects such as the F-111K.

I suppose the only good thing that came out of the whole affair was the RAF having to order Buccaneers 🙂

NO…!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

Any proof of this? What would be the mileage in such a move, politically?

Tooling is often routinely discarded anyway as companies move between projects. Carrying non-essential excess which has to be maintained comes at a cost.

There’s discarding tooling and there’s cutting up the jigs and destroying the blueprints and generally carrying out ethnic cleansing on the programme.

That was what happened here with a vengeance 😡 It has been well documented.