Now THERE’s an idea!!;)

A national aviation museum, with a useable runway, warm buildings and local staff on hand? It sounds too good to be true. Move that silly allotment space from London and relocate it to the Hall would be an epic but GREAT idea!

I bought Flight of the Mew Gull, by Alex Henshaw over the inter web and happily found his dated signature inside it. Very pleased with that 🙂

What will the local bowsers do now when they want to go the “shag and shuffle”? Lol!

In my (23 years of) experience, “Raf tw@s”.

Maybe the attitude of Canada with its ambitious recovery of Halifax NA337 set where we should be with all of this! Early bomber aircraft are incredibly badly represented in the U.K – Manchester-Stirling and Whitley paid a vital role in our ability to strike back in the early days of the war but there seems to be a perception that Bomber Command really only started when the Lancaster arrived!

Regards the memorial itself – maybe a Lancaster outline on the hillside would have had more impact – in a similar way to the White Horse !

I feel compelled to agree. As a resident of Lincolnshire (in the Faldingworth, Scampton and Hemswell triangle) thanks to a full career in the RAF, I get a bit fed up with these guys getting their way creating monuments etc.
Surely it’d be better to get those Stirling bits from Stafford and add new material until it’s complete, finish that Hampden at Cosford, and that Lancaster from Kermit???? Put them in a cylindrical glass walled shed tail to tail with the names of the 55,573 inscribed in the glass. A proper lasting and relavant memorial and the only place in the world to see the types together. Add sounds of crew in checks, and Churchill quotes and jobs a good un! Spires indeed….

The thread is titled ‘Duxford Diary’. The coming and goings at Duxford, a small amount is modern. What’s the issue?

It’s not really an “issue” as you so combativly put it, but plenty of folks are asking about the new aircraft seen at Duxford on the Historic Forum. All the answers can be found in Modern forum just a click away. As this is a Duxford Diary, surely it’s better to ask questions elsewhere? There’s no need to get your knickers in a knot. 😉

Yes but all this happens whether or not they are being used. If it’s RAF manpower and resources.

The RAF has little in the way of manpower and resources. There is little capacity for this any more. I doubt it’d get beyond the risk assessment if the RAF got involved. Oh, I know as I’ve just left after 23 years as a techie.