It was only ‘not Egypt’s war’ because the Allied forces stopped the Germans from advancing on the Nile/Suez – without that there would have been a lot more dead Egyptians and a German occupation of their country.

The Facebook page links suggest it’s correct

Ex RAF collegue was on the Comet for its “arrival” where it took the gear out on one side by hitting the remains / foundations of a buried wall, he told me the Captain turned round to shout abandon aircraft to see the engineers on board, having dumped the overwing exits were already some distance away from the aircraft and still going..

IIRC, title was still with the RAF at that point, so they were responsible for repair before it was handed over to the Museum. This resulted in a caveat in the sale of the Shackleton that ownership transfered to the Museum when in sight of the airfield, just in case! How true that is, i don’t know.

My last vist there was in 1984, after the auction but even then it was a great place.

His father worked for Sopwith IIRC

And a couple of critical documents (namely the allocation of code son the outbreak of war) have, afaik, never been located

Not completely pointless, as well as CFE restrictions, one of the reasons was US restrictions due to the (remote) possiblity parts going to Iran. After 25 years, none of the pasrt would be airworthy, so that’s not a problem

Kind of sad there are now no FG1s remaining in RAF Squadron colours other than the all black one, which is hardly representative (and no RAF Phantoms in Scotland)

I suspect it’s ZA150 at Dunsfold, it’s been used for filming before, but it might have been ZD241 at Bruntingthorpe. The Lightnings were obviously CGI’d versions of possibly one of the brunty ones as it had the late 80s grey colour scheme

The Vulcan was probably the large scale model of XH558 that is out there.