But who is that group and how will they safeguard its future? Unless it gets turned into an industrial estate, I can’t see how it has a sustainable future in anything like its current state. It takes a great deal of money to develop and there are only so many Duxfords and Bicesters that the country can support.

I dearly hope someone can come up with an inventive idea that will work, but so far all I see and hear is “someone needs to do something”, which isn’t much of an idea.

Sadly in a world that is going to hell in a hand-cart, the new government probably has more pressing challenges than preserving historic airfields. 

It’s a shame but sometimes perspective is required. It’s difficult to see a sustainable future for sites such as this, even in the private sector.  

Could easily be a USAF SB-17G at that date.

Awesome indeed; but not a loop as described in the video, rather it was an Immelmann turn. Standard manoeuvre for LABS toss-bombing.

I have a photo somewhere of many Buckmasters and Buckinghams at Filton just post-war. I suspect that a lot were scrapped on site before delivery.

More recently, some folks who didn’t have a clue how an aircraft is designed, produced and supported resurrected this idea that the TSR.2 might be put into production.

I’m not sure how the ‘five’ produced aircraft figure was arrived at, but I recall quite a few substantial fuselage sections ended up at P&EE Foulness. When I was at Halton there was an awful lot of TSR.2 stuff used for teaching there too. We were in awe: I trust it all survived… 

I’m not sure that Caterpillar Club extends to ejections and or use of non-Irvin parachutes. But give it a go! I think the RAFM will be your best bet however.

It’s on ITS way, not “it’s way”. Standards!

Great to hear this: gate guards at non-flying units always seem most at risk these days.