Seems to me like this a golden opportunity to re-launch the Bob collection as a slightly leaner collection of aircraft in a much more modern setting, perhaps with a dedicated subsection for the France/Low Countries campaigns which seem a bit forgotten. How about a brand new display with the Ju87, Gladiator, Battle, and Stuka? (you could swap the Blenheim back to the Bomber Hall in its place)
As others have said the Bf110 would look stunning sat menacingly next to the Lancaster. I’d also suggest you relocate the CR42 to a new Desert/Middle East/Med display, get shot of the rather superfluous Jungmeister, and just leave a core collection of the RAF fighters, He11, Ju88 and Bf109. The Hurricane wreck, which is rather tucked away, could be used to stunning effect in the entrance…

The P-40 is an obvious candidate for me. I’d also mention the fighter versions of the Mosquito. OK sure the Mosquito is a rightly famous aircraft but it always seems to be better remembered as the famous unarmed bomber.

Great stuff! I can’t remember, did the Gannet guys manage to sort out the issues with tools? Seem to recall they were being held back somewhere by lack of the right spanners…

Thanks to everyone who contributed in 2015, hope you had a good New Year and look forward to more Duxford happenings this year!

As I understand it, in future if the traffic on the M11 and A505 stops then the airshow stops. This is as a result of the Shoreham crash and I believe it was implemented at the September show. Perhaps by going all ticket,the relevant authorities will have a handle on the potential traffic and gear up accordingly.

Well, not exactly. The September show (on the Saturday) still went ahead despite the traffic being stationary for nearly the entire duration. There was only one brief pause for 10 minutes or so while the air ambulance arrived to evacuate a casualty from just beyond the NE threshold.

There’s still one DC-4 at North Weald isn’t there?

Staying with the Stranraer drift, does that mean that there are parts of three Stranraers extant? I remember a Flypast story covering the underwater recovery of an ex-Queen Charlotte Airlines machine no more than five or ten years ago, and certainly not as long ago as 1986! So that suggests that two wrecks exist in addition to the RAFM machine…