I thought that capacity was 20,000 at least?

From memory, its last flight to Perth was not in 1973, more like 76 or 77, simply as I watched it over fly Bedfordshire on the airways system on a route roughly BPK-POL and I am sure it passed over during a summer evening? It used its registration as its call sign that is how I know it was F-BGNR.

Thinking about it, this Viscount probably flew right over (or very close) Hatch (Skysports base) at cruising Altitude during its last ever flight!

If one is going to publish pictures electronically on the Internet, then unless the photo clearly has “copyright of Mr Xxxxxx” layered across it, one has to assume that it will be copied.

It is extremely simple to layer a signature or copyright and just as easy to copy and re-produce elsewhere.

Anyone daft enough to think that they can TOTALLY enforce copyright on an image reproduced on the Internet is deluded.

For goodness sake stop moaning about copyright if your image is not layered with such or does not contain your exif tag (if it is taken using a modern digital camera it will have this embedded within the jpeg file).

Rant over!

I understand that half of the RAF West Drayton site has already been flattened to make way for apartments, the remainder of the site will become housing once NATS moves off site late next year.

The flying display that I remember at Dunstable was during the early 1970’s with the tiger Club in abundance.

My memories of the Mosquito displaying there will last my lifetime. A natural amphitheatre the view form the downs made.

I will did the shots out this evening from a previous display.

30 minutes prior to its final departure: