Of course not.
The people running the aircraft wanted to keep it flying a bit longer though didn’t they? They restored the thing and were more than confidant it had more life left.

The aircraft is now a museum piece and there’s nothing else to say, is there?

No, there probably isn’t but the way people sound off on here, I’m left wondering if they think he thought about taking it for a run up the M11 on purpose.
I’m sure he didn’t.

I agree with DJJ
There’s nothing untoward with 8 Sqn.

See below:-

Lifted from the RAF themselves.
8 Sqn. flew ‘Big Acks’ for quite a while in The Great War.

David Burke, which particular squadron are you refering to.
I’d be interested in knowing.

No. 8 Sqn was formed at Brooklands on 1 January 1915 before moving to St Omer, France in April with BE2Cs where it became an army co-operation unit. During the Great War, the Squadron specialised in the spotting of anti-tank guns, and in June 1918 was attached to the Tank Corps for this purpose. Shortly after this, Captain FMF West was awarded the VC for his outstanding dedication and bravery in pin-pointing enemy concentrations in the face of intense opposition and severe injury while flying an Armstrong-Whitworth FK8. After the end of the World War I, the squadron briefly went to Germany as part of the occupation forces disbandment in January 1920.

Reformed as a day-bomber unit with DH9As at Helwan in Egypt in October of that year, the Squadron began a long association between the unit and the Middle East and during the 1920s was one of the Squadrons responsible for the air-policing of Iraq. In 1927, the Squadron moved to Aden and re-equipped with Fairey IIIFs. By the outbreak of World War II, No. 8 Sqn had received Blenheims and was involved in the action in Somaliland against the Italians before moving to maritime reconnaissance duties with little success. The Squadron was again disbanded on 1 May 1945, but was dormant for only 15 days when the Liberator-equipped No. 200 Sqn at Jessore, India was renumbered. This respite was brief, and after a short period on supply-dropping flights in Malaya, it was again disbanded in November 1945.

Another short rest saw the squadron reform in Aden in September 1946 with Mosquitos equipped for fighter-bomber duties. These were superceded by Tempests, Brigands and then Vampires in 1947, 1949 and 1953 respectively. During the Suez crisis in 1956, the Squadron, now flying Venoms, moved to Cyprus before returning to its base at Khormaksar, Aden. During 1960, No. 8 Sqn and its Hunters moved to Bahrain to protect Kuwait against Iraqi aggression. After another disbandment in December 1971, No. 8 Sqn was reformed again, this time with Shackletons at Kinloss on airborne early warning duties before moving to nearby Lossiemouth in late 1973. This type gave sterling service until 1991 when the Squadron re-equipped with its current mount, the Sentry AEW1, and moved to Waddington. Since then, No 8 has been involved in operations over the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq (Operation Telic).

I would suggest that with the many formings and reformings that occur in a squadron’s history, I would suggest that the last thing on the mind of bureaucracy is this sort of thing.

Andy

Reno with ‘Team Patterson’.

Have you ever considered typing in ‘Word’ and then ‘cutting and pasting’ into this forum after spell-checking?
You’ll find that people take you much more seriously if you show some effort in regard to spelling and punctuation and while you talk rather glibly about authoring and researching a book and gaining a list of contacts for that work, you’ll find that people of a certain generation will consider literacy far more important than you do.

The written word may not be important to you, but to many people it’s a mark of education and you’ll need to demonstrate to them that you can read and write before you’re taken seriously.

You seem to use the excuse of being young as a cover for acting in what might be considered by some as a loutish manner—asking stupid, ill considered questions and then acting petulantly when people laugh at you.

Why don’t you consider a question before you ask it?
You may then find that people make a more serious effort to answer those questions in a reasonable manner.
I’ve read it here that your enthusiasm should be encouraged and to a point I agree with that, and you know that I’ve E-mailed you in the past to correct some of the errors on your web-site.
However, I would point out that your continuing apparent resistance to learning from what you’re told by people here, could be construed as a touch ignorant and that isn’t much of a virtue.

So, you’re not a child, why not try acting like an adult—you might eventually enjoy the experience.

Just some free advice.
Andy

annoyobot

Love that.

Also Old Warden undercover agent.

Now that has given me an idea. Maybe i should do that rather than get a cockpit section. And it means i could use up some of this wood layin about this place.

I’ll break my no travelling promise to be at the first flight of this project.

Fair point, Andy.

However, given the relative populations of the nations concerned I’m sure you will agree that the ANZAC losses were proportionately extremely heavy.

And you’re right about Cromwell, although Charles I wasn’t much better for the nation as a whole.

And I certainly wasn’t attempting to downplay the contribution the ANZACS made to that campaign and thanks to Keith Murdoch and a few others the birth of two nations started there.
A year later on the Somme at Pozieres the Australian divisions were bled almost white but this never gets the same attention as Gallipoli.
Mainly I suppose because the peninsular is such a small, almost intimate battlefield, cut off from almost everything else.
This gives it a very unique atmosphere and feeling.
A…

Nah, she was great Andy. That’s the last time we were LED.

Yes, right up the garden path and then down the toilet.

Ren Frew
I thought of Cromwell too and then thought I didn’t have to live through his times. I lived through Thatcherism though–That’s why I chose her.