Neil
Have gone back on to the LA site and realised that you can download the planning documentation that you submitted, if it’s ok with you I’ll print them off and submit a backing statement to the planning officer.
Horrible set of forms, I would love to have seen this application made on our local Householder forms, much simpler.
In all my years in this business, I would love to have made such an application, it makes barn conversions look so boring.
The only slightly related application I can think of doing were Building Regs drawings of fall out shelters for the New Zealand airforce, all done from the UK.
If you want to PM me with your web address, I’ll forward a copy of my letter.
Whats the height to the top of a Lightnings tail, if it’s less than 4.5m and at the back of the property and certain other criteria, not being in a conservation area for instance, you may have got away with it as permitted development, other interested parties please note.

To the dismay of many people, including myself, I see on the Wix site that engines 2 and 3 on Fifi have started grinding out chunks of metal. This is after just 6 hours of flying after a recent overhaul, and could mean that she will be grounded for quite a while.
This is one aircraft I would dearly like to see on my next visit to the USA, as I have fond memories of the Boeing Washingtons at Waddington; not least the fantastic generosity of the American air and ground crews who, during a time when sweet rationing was in force in the UK, freely gave us kids our first taste of many goodies! “Any gum, chum?” was our plaintive wheedling, usually getting a marvellous response. Thanks, guys!
(And thanks for protecting us when the Cold War was absolutely freezing!)

I always thought that the Boeing Washingtons at Waddington were flown and operated by the RAF.

Simply brilliant! I can’t even the feeling you would get from seeing a GR.4 flying by while driving in the motorway.

You tend to wander out of your lane and nearly fill your trousers, and that happened to me with only a Hawk, further up the road at Beattock and in torrential rain too.
Passing Leeming on the A-1 can be fun to when the F-3’s are messing about but I reckon the best road has to be the one to Brandon where it passes the end of the Lakenheath runway when the F-15’s are landing, if you are parked up in the viewing area, passing traffic’s reaction to this can be quite interesting.
Another late, lamented place was a trip on the Bure Valley Railway at Coltishall, when the Jaguars were landing and taking off, it’s situated only about 100 yards from the west end of the runway and we always used to get twitchy approaching the appropriate spot during a streamed take off or landing.
This has reminded me of a real head ducking incident.
A couple of years ago we went on a camping holiday to Norfolk, fortunately it coincided with a visit to Coltishall by Polish SU-22’s and our campsite wasn’t too many miles from the end of the runway so lie ins weren’t an option.
Every day the Jags and SU’s practiced dogfights around the coast at Sheringham.
One day, we took the kids for a trip on The North Norfolk Railway from Holt to Sheringham, just as an aside John Major was sitting in the rear carriage.
While crossing Kelling Heath we were looking at the sea view when an Su, chased by a Jag, nearly took the roof off the carriage, I’m certain that the coach swayed with the affects of the reheat, I reckon they knew Mr Major was onboard and were taking the p##s, I noticed that Norma made a sprint for the bar when we arrived at Sheringham, we had to calm down with a crab sandwhich and a pint at the 2 Lifeboats instead.
Holidays in Norfolk will never be the same.

Incredible picture and I’m afraid I can’t help, it’s interesting to note the wear on the bomb bay door where the arial touches it, presumably caused by the thing waggling about in the slipstream during the bombing run, bad design fault, I reckon it could easily have caused the door to get jammed open in flight.

im reaching for the tissues that poor lightning does anyone know of that lightning sat in a field near newark right next to the a1 motorway? everytime i see it it gets worse it used to be mint now its covered in graffiti quick somone save it

If you go on search and type in Balderton Lightning you’ll know the answers, basically the owner won’t sell.

This thread is getting very nasty, apart from virtual death threats to the obviously devious Mr Saunders, we keep coming back to the question of Pikeys.
Perhaps this thread should be shifted to General Discussion and we can all have a go, assuming you want bricks through the windows of course.
OK, I’m off to General to start a thread on the subject of Pikeys, Gypsies, Travellers, whatever, there seems to be so much hatred on here, I would like to know why and, I know I’m guilty of speaking out of order, but not all of these people can be so bad.
Perhaps one of them has a laptop in the caravan ( not necessarily stolen ) and will join in.

What about the Supermarine Scimitar?, or the Attacker even? DH Sea Vixen?

Was not the Attacker used by the IAF in some of their skirmishes, and I think that Scimitars and Vixens were used to sink the Torrey Canyon in 1967, or doesn’t that count, used in anger though.
I thought as well that Javs were used in Aden in the 60’s.
What about the Swift or RAF Phantoms, though these were used on CAPS in the Falklands, and I believe they chased off a few Argie incersions.
Any one have a list of what was used in the Suez crisis.