The aircraft is XZ372 from Everetts at Bentwaters according to http://www.demobbed.org.uk

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/image_view.php?a=24752&s=xz372.jpg

One with the Wessex here

http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/photos/img281.htm

Heritage & Development

Heritage and Development can work togther.

I believe that Brooklands had some assistance from the developers of Weybridge.

I know that the North East Aircaft Museum, albeit afetr some discussion, also had assistance from the re-development of Sunderland Airport.

Sadly, with an ever decreasing manufacturing industry the re-development will continue.

Fortunately the Woodford Heritage is well represented with examples of most of the Woodford Products already in preservation accross the country.

This may not be the most popular view but I think we need to concentrate on the existing collections rather than attempt to preserve more manufacturing facilities. Avro’s history is well represented in the museum at Manchester.

Almost inevitably the airfield will go the way of Filton and be swallowed up.

It current outlook is much better than being left to decay

The last two Tanker Conversion contracts were a result of

ASR415 – VC10 K4 conversion and was carried out at Filton
ASR416 – VC10 c1K carried out at Bournemouth by Flight Refuelling.

Both contracts were administered from Filton.

ASR415 was the first time I became involved with the VC-10. I was planning manager on the project and had an involvement from the Abingdon working party which recovered the aircraft through to just before the delivery of ZD242.

The conversion of ZD242 took almost 400,00 manhours.

According to Scramble there was one in 1980.

See here http://www.scramble.nl/showreports.htm

It was the Newbury Air Festival as opposed to the International Air Tattoo and was only 1 day

I attended my first IAT at Greenham Common in 1979 and went in 1981 & 1983 before it moved to Fairford

There have been proposals for houses since the development of the retail park at Cribbs Causeway in the early 1980’s.

A lack of foresight stopped the development of Filton at the end of the Concorde programme long before the building of Bradley Stoke and other developments around the airfield.

The site is prime development area siting next to the M4/M5 junction and the Paddington to Cardiff Rail Line.

The primary cause of the accident was a structural failure of the starboard main plane. This is confirmed by inspection of the wreckage, cine films and photographs taken at the time of the accident together with statements by A.I.B. and the Chief Designer of A.V. Roe Ltd. Although the strip examination has not been made preliminary evidence indicates that there was no failure of the engines.

from http://www.freewebs.com/keithstevenson/vulcancrash.htm