On the same site is this Southend colour film from circa 1962 which includes a superbly filmed view from a takeoff over the ranks of hangers & parked Bristol Freighters in minutes 1 to 3. But turn the sound off if you are not a Johnny Morris fan – ex RAF I believe !

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/7641

I am working both days this weekend,and live 700 miles away so cant just comeby in my lunch break!

Ahhh…The Aeronauts…Mirage IIIs, the desert, catchy music, and dashing pilots with dialogue dubbed into English. That’s about all I remember, but it was rivetting for a small boy… and no VCR!

I remember this excellent series too, I spent my pocket money on an Airfix Mirage and built it wheels up in Israeli colours – it was tough enough to survive being thrown around and i still have it today, restored…….

Perhaps an aircraft factory or repair depot separated from the nearest airfield by a railway.

Last call for those buses October this year! New bus company coming up with completely new buses; all the others still working will probably be stored and later become part of a transport museum. No conductors on the buses for ages!

RJC

Arriva, the British subsidiary of Germany´s DB have won the contract and their new Chinese buses plus 57 old bendy buses kicked out of London by Boris are scheduled to takeover from 3rd July 2011 not October.
Only 3 longnose buses have been confirmed to be retained by Heritage Malta with a contract to crush a large number being taken out with a scrap metal company

The Malta Air Museum is superb ,worth a visit each trip to Malta and it is a joy to get up close and personal with the exhibits without the UK´s elf and safetee ropes spoiling things……….

This bus is an ex Navy Bedford from 1967

So we now know that of 61 crated never erected Mk VIII 23 were at Amberley and the other 38 were at Richmond. And so far no whispers of crated Spits buried anywhere near Richmond or Amberley, and today we read of brand new crated Spitfires going straight into the melting pot:( Which just leaves the slim possibility of an unerected Seafire being stashed somewhere near Oakey

Any oldtimers in the Richmond area have any gossip to share?

Interesting document, must be March 1946 not March 1945 because there is no mention of Japan to attack. 61 MkVIII still crated of which we know about MV154 and MV239 as they did turn up in Sydney crated by 1960. I wonder if the other 59 can easily be identified as having no operational use and where these crates were stored pending cancelled erection???

Interesting article………..
Does anyone have half a dozen or so MkXIV serials which have no history beyond 1945 that were exported in the direction of Australia but cannot be ever proven to have been unpacked from their shipping cases??
The Japanese didnt have the naval forces capable of invading Australia by the time the MkXIV was able to be shipped in quantity so its hard to believe such pie-in-the-mine tales even with the strongest desire for a recovery or two …….