Have you tried consulting or contacting http://www.concordesst.com with this question? They have an active and knowledgeable forum group too!

Nice shots from East Midlands Mr B.175 – I know the Vanguard/Merchantman nose is from G-APES, but what is the identity of the Viscount nose?

I also reccommend this inexpensive book which I believe is still in print:-

Franks, Richard A (1999, paperback) ‘The Hawker Hurricane – A Comprehensive Guide for the Modeller’ (SAM Publications, Bedford, ISBN 0 9533465 1 X).

The National Archives (ex PRO) at Kew ought to be worth consulting and BTW there is no such thing as The Control Tower Research Group – but there is an Airfield Research Group (http://www.airfield-research-group.co.uk/).

Good luck with efforts to oppose this unacceptable development – I’ll certainly lend my support to the campaign.

Very interested to hear of the suggestion/question that NW may be eligible for protection under ‘UNESCO WW2 protected site status’ – can Crazymainer perhaps say more about this legislation? I for one have never heard of it – at least in a WW2 context – and I’ve been involved in efforts to protect UK airfield buildings for more than 20 years….

Note: unless some of the fighter pens are Scheduled Monuments, I doubt that any surviving buildings at North Weald are currently protected against demolition. I shall try and check up on this question anyway.

Steve, I do like that flying machine in your photo – was it built by Fred Flintstone by any chance? Do the wings flap too?

Dave – I would be surprised if Typhoon drawings survive anywhere in significant numbers. I presume you have already asked the RAF Museum too?

On further checking, I can now add that one of the Bristol Pegasus engines from L7775 has long been displayed in Brooklands Museum’s Aero Engine Exhibition. This was recovered from the crash site by a local ATC unit some time before the rest of the parts were rescued. Can anyone confirm the present whereabouts of the other engine – perhaps with the AeroVenture museum at Doncaster?

As for the idea of replicating a Warwick with all these Wellington parts, I doubt that this would be realistically feasible – and I know of no significant surviving Warwick parts nor any serious archive of manufacturers’ drawings.