Aaah I was thinking they were moving G-BBDG the other Filton Concorde for its move for Brooklands.

Has its got its tail on now? I guess its just a shell?
This is the only Concorde I have not seen. Will wait until its move to Brooklands through. Then I can complete my one and only complete airliner production list!

On the subject of eating and LBG there are several good bars across the road from the museum. Spent most of an airshow day in one because it was too hot to do much walking and the beer was cold. They did pretty good cheap snacks too.

I just hope that most mock airfield attacks are better than the only one I have seen. That was in 1990 at the Valiant Air Command show at Tico. The Bombers were the Collings B-24, 2 B-25’s and 2 A26, Tracker and a C-1119G in a long line astern. The explosions seem to happern while the aircraft was about a 1/4 of a mile away! The Perl Harbour dogfight wasn’t much better Fuji KM2’s(licence built moded T-34’s) being chased by US T-34’s!!
Still a excellent show, unrestricted airside access in the morning. Sat in the cockpit of the B-25 and an A-26! Only 3 P51’s but the flying Panther and Grumman Duck were excellent

The museum at LBG is excellent. The WW2 aircraft are in the Concorde hall outside on the apron. Its a bit dark in there for photos though. There is the Grand Gallery in the former terminal with WW1 and before aircraft. Plus one hall with some excellent post WW2 French AF aircraft plus the spectacullar sport aircraft hall with Rapide, Cierva C8 autogyro, Bucker Bestman, plus early Jodels etc. I think two of the halls have been closed for a few years because the building was unsafe(anybody know for sure?). They moved the WW2 aircraft into the Concorde hall.
You can easily get there with the regular 350 bus which runs from CDG airport to central Paris, its about 20 min from CDG.

Re: Was Margaret a Hawk?

Originally posted by JDK
Peter’s ‘Maggie’ is actually a Hawk III (Acording to G-INFO and Pete) as is the Duxford (ex-Skyfame) machine. As far as I can tell though, apart from the different name when made, there is no difference no – anyone able to clarify? Shuttleworth’s own machine, IIRC, is a Maggie, not a Hawk.

The difference seems to be even less than that of the Seagull V to Walrus – at least there were two physical airframe differences (slats and jury strut if you are wondering…)

Cheers

The diffrence between the Hawk Trainer and the maggie acording to my much prized Putnam Miles Aircraft since 1925 is that the maggie only had enlarged cockpits to accomodate parachutes and blind flying equipment.

There are many claims to have beatern the Wrights. Celmet Alder, Santos du Mont, Langley etc but history records the Wrights as the first.
As for publicity at the time we have to remember that many had clamed to be the first. The press and public had become bored of fitst flights storied and many beleived it could not be done.
Lest just hope something is done in the UK in 2008 to commerate S.F. Cody’s first flight here in Farnborough in 1908?

Indeed ‘FBS was built as a Hawk Trainer in 1937 for the civillian run 11(?)EFTS at Woodley. In the early war years,like many other aircraft in these schools they continued to be civil registered. It finally became BB661 in March 1941