Abuse of the system is endemic. I know. The evidence is within fifty yards of where I live.

Do tell!

I want one yes…but money doesn’t grow on trees these days unfortunately.

I’m not sure it ever did.

However you could try and get to Lelystad to see their DC-8?

Is that really the Defcon website?!? It looks like a Geocities page from the late ’90s.

Otherwise, a long, tedious video from one of Youtube’s least charismatic conspiracy theorists. Utter bull**** from top to bottom.

Hi Robert

So.. did the locals give any indication as to where the hole was? Without wishing to lead any witnesses, the only candidate in 46 for activity / disturbed ground is here:

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I would place those disturbances at roughly 55.935156, -2.771601. There are some darker marks in the field there, but the geometry of the fields has changed a lot since 1946. It might be best to check along the Western field margin. These are accessible under the Outdoor Access Code (I think) and may also prove to be where a lot of ploughed off material may end up.

Next stop, crated Whirlwinds.

I’m game for some digging.

I’m not convinced Fan trainer wheels go into the fuselage;

The red and white paint scheme suggests that the wing came off of a trainer. RTAF appear to have used Cessna T-37s as well, but the undercarriage assembly doesn’t allow for it to pack into that nifty little hole in the wing you posted in picture #2 above. Chipmunks appear to have a fixed undercarriage, so they didn’t come off one of those either.

The wing maybe even came off of this example;

What happened to nostalgair1? Lost at sea?

If I was involved in the Midland Air Museum I would be slightly troubled by all these punters wishing to lump an aircraft collection on my doorstep. Isn’t that outfit already run by volunteers? If all was good then they wouldn’t have a boneyard next to the museum with half-complete airframes and other materials sitting in the weeds. I think the addition of several more large airframes would be bad news for them; how many spare weekends would be needed to paint a VC-10? Is a BAC 1-11 that worthy of inclusion? Its a dumpy wee airliner from the sixties, and the Newquay example is hardly the last of its type.