Loved Flixton, get there if you can.

Going slightly OT, but to me the museum has lost a certain ‘something’ since the falling-out with the estate of the late Ken Wallis. I found it rather sad to see the hall named after him sitting almost empty on a recent visit there. 🙁

The restoration was halted a decade or so back. A shame, as the BCATP is a story worth telling, but neither the RAF Museum (with its Cornell stored, unrestored, for decades) nor the IWM seem to deem it worthy of being told. 🙁

I take it you’ve contacted Tango Charlie?

Jay, I’m interested to read your comments. I worked for a Canadian company in the UK for a few years a while back and the Canadians who came over to the UK to work said very much the same thing. They’d think nothing of popping into London on the train from Bedford for dinner, a trip of less than an hour each way, in the evening after work. They were shocked to hear from the locals that a trip to London was something they did once a year for Christmas shopping, planned months in advance. It is a similar attitude with aircraft over here, there is a certain laziness and an expectation that things will be brought to their own doorstep for them to see, hence the constant ‘Will It Be At Legends?’ (WIBAL) whine on here. Some of us will travel many thousands of miles in search of interesting aeroplanes each year, but there is still a very provincial attitude predominating where many people are unwilling to travel far outside their own locality.

Sssssh, you’ll give the game away…

Don’t Precision also have the remains of the aircraft that Jeff Ethell lost his life in too?

No, it smells funny. A bit like a kerosene lamp.

Those projects have been ongoing for a decade so hardly constitute news, let alone “you ain’t seen nothing yet”