I can’t remember the exact wording but they’re not even polite about it. “You will leave your camera/phone here…”

Add to that the surly bloke behind the counter/ticket desk, and even the cat in the shop was stroppy.

It seems to be the museum’s principle to be rude.

I think I can see what JB’s getting at to a certain extent. I was never a prolific poster on WIX, as said it’s understandably American-centric, so half the time I’ve no idea what they’re on about and what I do understand, I don’t know anything about.

I have noticed that in recent years, I post considerably less often on the site, although I’ve never tried to analyse why.

As an aside – pilots, maintainers and operators had started to bale out from this site, even before it crashed and burned.

Fed up with armchair “experts” I seem to recall was one reason…

Primary sources being absolutely reliable of course, such as RAF combat reports involving He100 or He113 fighters, and Luftwaffe reports of combat with Spitfires when they were actually Hurricanes.

Since you didn’t like my suggestion, a quick google finds that “Plane Speaking” by Bill Gunston was published by Patrick Stephens in 1991.

Available from Abebooks and presumably other places.

Trumper. Their thinking was that aircrew might bale out rather than fight.

Generals etc., with the intelligence  and common sense of a cheese sandwich.

mothminor, where does it say that the reserve collection at Wroughton has reopened?

There’s nowhere on the website that I can see that refers to it being open.

I saw some of it briefly while at an airshow there in the very early ’90s and would love to see it properly.

It’s another one of those split links that appeared a few months ago.

Common sense dictates that the aerodrome must have been extended, probably considerably.

When the Air Ministry, War Office, whatever it was then acquired the land it would have been adequate for piston-engined biplane fighters.

I find it hard to believe that in later years Concorde and other jet airliners, a Vulcan, Victor and number of fast jets could get into the same patch.

I know the building of the M11 was held up until Concorde had flown in but a lot have arrived since then.

Having said all that, the forward fuselage of the B52 is seriously rippled, suggesting it was braking so hard it was about to concertina.