Aaah the ‘bushe in the 50’s. Sadly Im far too young to remember.It was indeed Londons main charter airport with a 6000ft main runway.Home of Eagle,Airwork,Dan Air,Westminster Airways and the likes. Even took BOAC Comets on crew training aswell as BEA Viscounts and Ambassadors. Was Heathrows diversion airport and took the first Aeroflot IL14 flight on diversion! Also used alot by the US Navy(based Daks and C-45’s) and by the USAF(C-124’s,C-54’s,C-130’s etc). Closed in 1960 because the lease had run out on the part that was requistioned during the war and the govenment had spent millions on Gatwick and wanted the airlines to go there.
Reopened in 1962 by AVM Bennett of pathfinder and BSAAC fame
and is still a GA field. I actually live in the circuit. Wish it was Vikings and not AA5’s going round!

Please can they start flying from Farnborough to CDG,AMS and FRA!!!
I think there is still room for more routes, there are still many that low costs dont fly. Low cost flights from London to Frankfurt,Munich,Dussledorf, Paris,Amsterdam are very thin on the ground. It would be nice to have a low cost that actually flys somewhere I want to go. Unlike Ryan Air whos sole destination of interest(i.e. somewhere with aircraft to look at) is DUB! Shame they cant fly into Le Bourget for Paris?

Yes its a Flamant, I think its owned by the same guy who brought the Shackletons for a museum that never was.
They were used by the French for twin training, nav training and transport duties up to the early 80’s.

If it was Supermarine I would guess that it would be Chilbolton, their main flight test airfield. Its been pretty much untouched reciently.
As for langley the Ford factory closed several years ago, no merlins seem to have surfaced though.
I have heard the same sort of stories, railway tunnells, burried B17’s near Popham etc.

682al, wrecks & relics 3rd edition gives the Javelin as ‘probably’ being XA629 which was the FAW4 prototype. it was formerley kept on the base for display purposes.

Keep up these excellent pictures guys. I would love to see some from Lasham as it would have been my bigest local scrapie, had I been alive at the time!

I guess some have come from Sabena/Virgin Express? But that does not account for them all. I was up there for a few hours this afternoon and it was quiet around 2, there were even a couple of biz jet departures so the slots do exist.

I have just come back from my first visit in its new guise. Lots of visitors today.Very impressive, but perfer the Duxford type working museum.
Loved the Grahame White hangar but it could do with some padding out with exhibitions and a few more aircraft, but I guess its very new.
Milestones was good too but I found it a bit ‘gimickey'(turntable, mossie on a perch etc). Liked the chopper exhibition, although what relevance the Skeeter has to the RAF I don’t know?? Was slightly dissapointed that the top gallireys haven’t changed in about 20 years. One glaring omission in terms of aircraft is a Dak, or any transport aircraft really. Would love to see the one at Aldershot brought to Hendon and put inside. They made such a massive impact over many years.
I didn’t try more than a cup of tea so no catering comments.