never been a fan of the Millstones of Flight concept – The RAF Today seems a good use for the building – plastic Typhoon/plastic JSF/Prototype Merlin and a spare Tornado just about cover the RAFs current combat capability. Would be sensible to base the capital’s RAF recruiting team there as well

Still think they need to cover the human aspects of the RAF better – the bits and pieces and ephemora – sadly lacking since the galleries were closed

IMHO the proposed acquisition list that he shared with the delegates at the AHL Autumn Conference in 2011 didn’t include many ‘pet projects’ – but sadly some items on the list seem to have escaped.

Just as a matter of interest/record, what was on the proposed acquisition list – it seems to be clearly in the public arena………………….

They also eventually bought out Taskers of Andover who built Queen Mary trailers. Ultimately bought out by Montracon and are no more.

For those who missed this, it is being repeated on Wednesday 8th October on BBC2 commencing at 7.00pm

There’s a signpost article to this programme in today’s Sunday Times

I seem to rememmer James Knightly (JDK) mentioning the Westland Doncaster factory many moons ago – might even have been on the WW forum. -he wrote a book on the Lysander so presumably uncovered information in his researches.

I havent been there specifically because of their ban on photography – not that I take many photos anyway; it’s just the principle – but if I did and they asked me (however politely) to hand over my phone, I’d point two fingers, ask for my money back and walk out.

There’s an issue of trust here – by asking me to hand over my phone, they clearly don’t trust me to comply with their rules even though I probably had every intention of respecting their wishes/demands in the first place. Everybody is therefore is regarded as a somebody not worthy of trust by the management

Did someone actually say that the paranoia extends to following people around to make sure…………..

Thanks for the memories, guys and God speed