This sadly demonstrates the arrogance of some at VTTS (not all): those with experience, knowledge and good common sense advised against placing XH558 at Doncaster but were shouted down. Too late for navel gazing now I guess, so hopefully the Canberra (and Swift?) can be rescued even if ‘558 is destined for the next Cockpitfest.

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The Washington is/was at Socorro, NM if memory serves. And one B-29 is still to be accounted for from China Lake. Google Earth search shows one other rather demolished example still on the ranges at the northeast end.

Mustang51: “…Such a pity about Old Sarum and – Sabrejet, I know what went on with Old Sarum last year and it WAS a family issue so I suggest that you keep you speculation to yourself when you are not in the loop as to what happened. “

Umm…which bit of speculation would that be then?

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Might be many things but that’s not Waddo. And you’d have to be way inside the perimeter fence to get burnt by anything on take-off there, so I suspect a bit of an urban myth.

But note that ORB’s (often compiled by unwilling recording officers) get serial numbers wrong also…

Doubt the B-52 will depart Monday: more likely later in the week, but you never know!

I think the RAF 100 promises to be an incredible opportunity to gather WW1, WW2 and more recent types together. In terms of flyers, the inter-war and Cold War types might be a bit thin in the air but maybe not so much on the ground. Plus of course we have honorary RAF squadrons from Norway, Poland, Canada etc to draw on and maybe we can bring together the less often-seen air forces from the Commonwealth too. We also have seen some lovely tribute schemes on foreign military aircraft, so it’s it’ll be interesting to see what comes together in the next 12 months.