Can I be the one GOM that doesn’t like the setting of Old Warden for ‘modern’ military aircraft. To me, Duxford is the place for this.
I’d rather see the early days of flight at OW, Civil or Military.

They do a bloody good job of restorations though.

Surely is Seattle, Snohomish County with so many Boeings around. Doesn’t help with the aircraft tho.

But then a quick google produces the news of Paul Allens collection at Paine Field… same place… and therefore probably is the Hurricane
http://www.flyingheritage.com/TemplatePlane.aspx?contentId=9

Nimrod R1 Update 5/7/2011

There were three Nimrod R1’s operated by 51 Sqdn one was taken out of service in 2009 and the remaining two remained in service until June 2011. One (XW664) will be coming to the Aeropark the fate of the other two is yet to be confirmed.

Info from hear, http://www.eastmidlandsaeropark.org/index.html

How many R1s were there? Three original and then an MR converted.

Still seems amazing to me that we talk of 51sqn and the R1 so openly. When I worked at Woodford they were referred to as those aircraft that don’t exist and are not operated by a squadron that doesn’t exist. They never spent much time outside when at Wyton.

Of course. May take me a while. They’re all slides and need digitizing.

I’m curious how the Taunton vet used the aircraft. Presumably he wasn’t doing world tours in those days.

I had a problem with mine, only receiving BBC1, 2, & 4. No commercial channels. After a bit of internet searching found that my aerial was receiving too much power and that a low/high power selection was available in the setup routine. No problem now.
Seems strange that too much power restricts receipt but what do I know. Would still prefer analogue.

Giant chocolate Easter eggs in the window of Woolworth’s

Woolworth’s? Who are they?

Only joking! I too remember the pop man with all different pops in stoneware jars to be dispensed from his vehicle.
What about a hardware store that also sold freshly ground coffee? The smells were amazing as you passed the coffee counter to hardware smells like parafin in the rear of the premises. And it had old, undressed, wooden floors.
Forget your Airfix kits…. what about Frog?

David

Would it be this…http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00gdb2r/Witness_Victory_in_Europe_Day/
available on iplayer?

In work and supposed to be working so can’t listen until later!

How very reassuring.

The full paragraph goes on to say that the third party airline has to fully comply with the EU regulations, so what’s the problem? The airline then has a cheaper operation, say domestically, where standards do not need to be as high but also complies internationally. Best of both worlds.