I would have thought that the officers mess would make an ideal hotel because wasn’t that the role it played originally? I don’t like the idea of another new building on the historic part of the site.
At least there is no mention of a high tower with historic aircraft hanging from it. :rolleyes:
mmitch.
February 2, 2013 at 8:09 pm
in reply to: TE311#1012165
If you went to the first day of the show early, as soon as the airfield was open there was an exodus of based business jets being moved out.
Once some years ago a biz-jet was laboriously towed along the Peri track through the car park!
mmitch.
Who helped with the ‘training in the UK’? Presumably experienced in biplanes?
When they come to the heavier WW2 metal there would be plenty of help at Duxford. That could start some interesting exchanges.
The BBMF did have an exchange RNZAF technician there a year or so ago.
mmitch.
I believe a few ‘spectators’ in a field outside the airfield were injured. They had been moved by the police for their safety but had returned…
I was listening on the airband as the rescue helicopters approached the pilots
and heard a ‘polite’ description of the jaw breaking incident!
mmitch.
Living in Kent even years after the war you could find shrapnel and bullets while digging the garden. That is why people who were on the streets during a raid wore steel helmets.
mmitch.
I just cannot believe that metal of any sort was buried in the UK after the war in any great quantity. The car industry for instance was rationed so that unless most production was for export they could not get the steel.
mmitch.
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