What was the British obsession with rear engined jets? About the only one that wasn’t would have been the BAe/HS/DH 146 – and that has a T tail. 125, 111, VC10, Trident…

Interesting to see what appears to be a TSR2 wing in the undergrowth below the Valiant nose still knocking around in 1993:eek:

There were quite a few TSR2 bits knocking around well into the late 90s – is that a fuselage to the right of the Valiant nose?

The research establishment aircraft rarely carried special colur schemes before the mid-60s – service schemes were the main base colours used. In the mid 60s, Boscombe adopted a red liveried scheme and farnborough a blue version, until the MOD (PE) scheme started to come in in the mid 70s

G-ABBB was indeed the Bulldog used in the film. Reach for the Sky was released in 1956 and G-ABBB was still flying at that point – it crashed in 1964. Its restoration was completed in 1999, since when it’s been on display at Hendon.

It wasn’t restored until after the film, in 1958-61; Second ‘first flight’ was in June 61

Whether they were borrowed, or just French aircraft operating ‘covertly’ from Israel is one of those questions….

There are a couple of books that cover Suez operations and cover this IIRC

Interesting sumary of the law here:

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/index.php?do=trespass

I would argue with ‘severe’, unless aggrevated, but not with the sentiment!

err…. Sea Mosquito?

Or even Mosquito TIII…….:p

Although neither of those is a known Mosquito serial (Both in cancelled batches)- could it be TV954? Location COULD be Abbotsinch, but I’ll need to check

My wife’s grandfather, born in the South before partition, joine dthe British Army in the late 20s, served throughout the 30s and was captured at Dunkirk, spent the next 5 years in a POW camp. Lived the rest of his life in Scotland. And he was a vocal an Irish republican as they come!!