airfields demise

all disused world war two airfields in britain should have been preserved(as should every aircraft type) each base made its honourable contribution with aircraft ,crews, ground staff,they were small townships for their brief period of exsistence, and men ,women came served and often died as has been recorded many times and by better people than me, basically these once proud bases are mainly now just rubble or littered with small work units,(where there was unity/ regimentation, now chaos reigns)some are gone with housing/trading estate replacments.(or motorways) it sounds totally absurd to suggest preserving every base, financially its complete suicide,where would the money be found?lets see,, Millemium dome,scottish parliment building,dare i say ,,concorde? TSR2, blue water/streak,etc etc, all these were projects started,and eventually proved to have had money thrown at them with only concorde possibly successful in a small way, had that financial prowess been put into preserving these airfields it would have proved a much better inveatment not to mention the jobs the scheme would have created mostly long term ,plus numerous preservation groups/ societies to administer said airfields, the ones who didnt come home deserve this.:cool: 😎 😎 😎

lough neagh

what about the Halifax that went down in lough neagh, was that recovered ?:cool: 😎 😎

aerodrome models bernard ross

Amazing model very accurate and done from memory im sure as Bernard lived close to Pocklington( or Barmby Moor as some call it) during the war and used to watch the Haifaxes take off on their sorties plus he witnessed many crashes there ,one in particular involved two haifaxes colliding over the base and crashing quite close to it, the RAf recovered the unfortunate air crews remains and a few days later a chap was walking his dog nearby when it found a human leg stuck in a hedge bottom .obviously the recovery crew had missed it, apparently there was a big inquiry as a result.
bernard actually showed me the field where the two aircraft ended up it was covered in the familiar blue alloy corrosive dust. and as we passed a dividing hedge he asked me to look in it as he was certain a small fragment of the hali had dropped in there, so i pushed back the branches to find a piece of twisted aluminiun covered in moss just where it had fallen and lain undisturbed for forty years, it felt very strange to see it and realise the tradgedy it had been involved in.bernard had earlier that year in the crash area dug down fourteen feet by hand and recovered one of the halis propeller reduction gear set, recovering it with no lifting tackle quite a feat, hes a remarkable man. another chap i know lived near linton on ouse and he and his mates used to stand on the runways perimeter fence and try to touch the Halifaxes undersides as they laboured to gain take off height! how amazing is that! and this was most evenings when ops were on , what a sight that must have been for those wartime kids

firefly

sorry i thought the aircraft was a complete airframe this wasnt clear in the initial thread and explains the failsworth link id assumed she was intact, so who owned the nose section when it was on display in manchester.:cool: 😎 😎

F86 ATBF

Id heard it was placed on a concrete plinth cast in situ on Much Hoole farm as the undercart wasnt either A intact or B unstable, (i knew a chap who saw the sabre when in the Reflectair Collection and it was a fairly complete aircraft prior to being sold off) , why the farmer would choose to transport it to duxford is beyond me as the cost would have been steep , if it was unsold at duxford (is there a photo of the aircraft),then it probably was disposed of or maybe a local enthusiast fancied their chances who knows ,does anyone?:cool: 😎 😎