I was part of the Aeroplane Collection team that collected the B2 Cockpit section from the ATC unit at Caterham along with their Rover W2B engine (now at Cosford). I remeber the delight we took when we went to Hendon on the way back. A quick look at their Whittle engine and then comparing it to ours much to the confused looks from passers by. I also remember taking the B2 to an airshow at Sleap and watching a bemused public trying to figure out what it was.

If its about architecture it’ll be all about the triumph over function that the AAM is.
The AAM is aweful, cramped, atrocious lighting (if its sunny outside – on those rare occasions when it’s not raining – its difficult if not impossible to see anything inside properly), and it has aircarft suspended on wires. Oh and lets not forget, its full of un-interesting American rubbish.

Was it possibly a USAF C119 being used for the development of the Medium Stressed Platform (MSP)?
The MSP which is still in British service today was devised to replace the WWII crash pan method of parachuting heavy items and was originally dropped from USAF C82 and then C119 whilst the Beverley was being developed. The lack of clearance to drop the MSP from the Beverley in 1956 meant that the heavy drops that went into Suez were the old system using the Hastings.

Hasting Bomb beams

The Hasting bomb beams (yes there were two) acted as the load spreaders for the underslung heavydrop loads and or CLE containers. As far as I know the last time the Hastings did a heavy drop was Suez when Jeeps were airdropped. As the Medium stressed platform had entered service and replaced the crash pan technique used for the Hastings and Halifax before it.
Why no MSP at Suez? It was only cleared for use from the C119 and of course the yanks were not on our side for that one.
So for Suez the old technique was reserected and the ‘Museum’ at AATDC Old Sarum was robbed for the equipment.

JDK mentions Stonehenge and the fact that there isn’t an airfield there. There is, but its one for the archeologists. If they ever get aroun to digging the tunnel for the A303 they will be destroying evidence of a WW1 airfield.
Also let’s not forget that the road works that will be required to avoid Stonehenge will have an imapact on Airman’s corner – the memorial to the worlds first military aircarft accident.

The Rotabuggy was flown at RAF Snaith, but It went with AFEE to Beaulieu. But not before it lost its rotor and tail feathers. There is a photo of it (a Jeep with a tall windscreen) towing a trailer on which there is a FA330 gyro kite. If it is the real jeep at Wallop maybe its time to build the rotor system properly now that the original drawings have been found. Anyoner know if ML still have the drawings for the tail – it was built by R Malcolm Ltd at Slough (part of the ML Avaiation empire)