Hurricane was a one-off presented to Australia.

What a wonderful woman and what a fantastic life. RIP Molly

The Fury looks a whole lot different than it did last time I saw it at Moree……. Beautiful

Thanks Pete1. Just wondering as he was appointed to BBMF after the Grob display was terminated. Had a long series of talks with him at the first Old Sarum show and he was very, very keen to gain that spot. Really nice guy and a better representative for the RAF you could not meet.

Aeronut………. It’s already happening.

Perhaps I am wrong but I was taken to the site by my great mate Trevor Graham who knows my love of history. Certainly the building – I now think part of the Siva Group – exhibits art deco aspects in the same manner as that in the photograph including what appears to be a type of guardhouse near the Hazel Road laneway entrance. The factory sawtooth roof is still there together with the doors fronting the Itchen all hidden behind materials silos and temporary structures plus piles of other pallets etc. Perhaps it is not part of that which formed the original structures in the early days but do these buildings form part of what was Supermarine? If so they are in my humble view items that should be preserved somehow. I know you cannot keep everything but……….

And you can still see some of the original buildings on the riverside. What a great pity that they have not been purchased, restored and Solent Sky rehoused there…..