Mike, I think there are three K3s still in service. I also agree with Tony – At Cosford, it would have been accessible all the time, something that won’t happen at Bruntingthorpe. However, if they can transport a Concorde across country to East Fortune, a VC to Cosford isn’t impossible!

It does show again the folly of putting the RAFM on a non-airfield site (Cosford was almsot a happy accident)

The Mohawk was on display at Hendon, but appears to be back in storage again?

It seemed to suffer from erratic distribution – I quite liked it, but it folded after 4 issues

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/magazine-details/combat-report-magazine.htm

The Contents link on that page is broken, but from the Internet Archive:

Volume 1 No.1 November/December 1986
Introduction; Leatherneck Air Cover – USMC PBJ Mitchells in WW2 (1 map, colour photos, serials listing); Booklist – book reviews; Airfield Focus: Gan – pictorial feature; Zapped! – RN Phantom FG.1 markings photo; Colour centrespread (3 PBJ col profiles, 2 B-25 col profiles, 1 Phantom FG.1 col profile, 6 colour scrap views); With a toolbox to Cambrai – memories of a RFC airframe fitter by Peter G Cooksley; Strategic Air Force, Burma Part 1: Background – SEAC B-25 operations (serials list); Remember your anniversaries! – list of maiden flight dates for WW2 aircraft; Tabletop airpower – model kit reviews; Modeller’s Reference – Saab 105 photos; Reference Guide – Spitfire (list of books on the subject, 1 page col profiles and plan views)

Volume 1 No.2 January/February 1987
Editorial; Invaders over Indo China – French AF B-26 operations; Booklist – book reviews; Letters; Reference Guide – Hurricane (list of books on the subject); Double Trouble: A look at the Twin Mustang by Paul Coggan (serials list, 1 page col drwgs); Tornado – five years in service (unit by unit survey); Steeple Mordern Strafers – 355th FG in WW2 (1 page col profiles); The Air Battle of Malta by Anton Summut (sic) (incl. airfield details); Tabletop airpower – model kit reviews

Volume 1 No.3 March/April 1987
Editorial; Cover Story: Brazil’s Catalinas; RAAF Spitfires; On Naval Duties – WW2 Fleet Air Arm photos; Letters; Thirties Album – photo feature; Videoscene – video reviews by Paul D’Orley; Boxcars Over Korea – C-119 operations (4 col profiles); USS Yorktown CV-10 The Fighting Lady – photo feature; Booklist – book reviews; ‘Triumphant We Fly’ – 381st BG in WW2 by Ron Mackay (1 col profiels, 4 col sqn insignia drwgs, serials list); The Air Battle of Malta Part 2 by Anton Sammut; Tabletop airpower – model kit reviews

Volume 1 No.4 May/June 1987
Editorial; RAF at Sharjah by Dennis West; Booklist – book reviews; Rolls-Royce – military market share remains strong; Sharper talons for the Hawk – T.1A conversion; Videoscene – video reviews by Paul D’Orley; ‘Triumphant We Fly’: The 381st Bomb Group in World War II, Part 2 by Ron Mackay (serials list); Letters; Phantoms of the 388th TFW (3 col profiles); Guardian of the Fleet: The Fairey Gannet in Royal Navy Service (4 col profiles); Middle East Gladiators – photo feature; My Short War – Luftwaffe Fw 190D pilot in March 1945 by Helmut Rix; JG 301 – a brief history; Tabletop airpower – model kit reviews; [inside back cover: RN Phantom FG.1 photo]

Ah yes, tried that before posting but didn’t find anything. The original airfield buildings lie just to the south of the runway but I think the aircraft were in an area of scrub cleared to make way for that very runway.

Here’s a link to the 1967 photos http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/results.do?view=lightbox&page=1

As you can see, if the Wellington was still there it should be quite obvious.

Anne

The link doesn’t work, but if you do a search on Socotra the pics come up.

These appear to be trucks, with some aircraft wreckage

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There appears to be two Wellington wrecks

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It’s interesting to note how much of the old WW2 buildings still exist to the North of the modern site

Will that be the same Norwich that has the Jag on Display that I think came from Bruggen before it was at Colt and was a composite of crashed parts nailed on a fuselage that was used for training which involved uploading you know what 😀

No, that’s Norfolk County Council, different organisation, albeit also in Norwich!

Bruce said the pics were taken on the barge, so they were taken under the control of the RAFM (by one of their contractors?) so it’s perhaps reasonable for them to ask for them to be removed.

And Hunter Flying have XL500 registered as G-KAEW

I understand the idea of a war grave but in reality an aircraft will corrode away far quicker than something like a ship. That then leaves you with scattered human remains and little human dignity. What we feel now to be a grave might not be considered such in years to come – I doubt if any aircrew wished to be left in crashed aircraft if there was a chance of recovery.

David,

I found this post by John Farley, an aviator I have a great deal of respect for, interesting:

http://www.pprune.org/7887439-post36.html