Is there a replacement ? Or is this a prelude to another closure?
mmitch.
There is a Concorde at Brooklands right by the M25. You can walk through Delta Golf and see the simulator working too.
mmitch.
I used to see a stream of Bae (Avro)146s passover my house on approach to London City. Now it’s Embraers. When we gave up regional and biz jets we threw the baby out with the bath water. Bae cannot survive by producing a handful of UAVs.
mmitch.
Anyway I can confirm there is definitely one Defiant receiving TLC in some workshops at Rochester Airport. Go and see it for yourself ! 🙂
mmitch.
I suppose Woodford is next and earlier?
mmitch.
That Defiant is the only original one left. I believe a replica/reconstruction? exists.
Brooklands Museum does have an archive. Presumably this will include Hawker records and drawings?
mmitch.
Usually appears around April. Keep a watch on their website.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/displayinfo/
mmitch.
Did I read that a Dominie was going to Duxford?
mmitch.
My word this is a ‘zombie’ thread. I had forgotten I read this book!
mmitch.
For some years race cars (especially) F1 in exhibitions are ‘show cars’ often built without a proper engine. Real cars are far to expensive to leave lying around!
mmitch.
Some years ago now when the tankers were going to be withdrawn, I emailed the PR people at Lynham, Duxford and Marshalls suggesting that one should be preserved at Duxford as a tribute to all the effort put in to design and build them during the Falklands war. I never received any replies. 🙁
mmitch.
Do you know if the BBMF have seen this card?
mmitch.
UK contact address. Airborne Systems Europe
Llangeinor • Bridgend CF32 8PL • United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0) 1656 72 7000 • Fax: +44(0) 1656 72 1100
I believe the owner in the US was a service Harrier pilot which solves the training problem.
mmitch.