Not actually correct . I don’t believe any of the OEM have been approached nor the CAA about the possibility of a ferry flight.

Perhaps, but it is a tiresome, unsubstantiated pipe dream that keeps coming out the woodwork on that UKAR thread every couple of pages. From what I’ve seen nobody, including Bruntingthorpe, have offered to house 558. Nobody offered a place prior to the final flight either.

Any chance the strip at Archerfield could be utilised?

Circa 1995 – 1996 (or maybe later?) I saw something being driven North on the A9, while attending the Doune and Dunblane agricultural show in a field adjacent to the motorway. From memory the aircraft was some sort of large fast jet, with the wings being transported separately to the fuselage. I have a photo of the fuselage, taken from some distance away, that shows that the aircraft has quite a long canopy like a Buccaneer. Both the fuselage and wings were finished in Dark Sea Grey and Dark Green camouflage.

There is the mortal remains of C-FDFC at Enstone.

As far as I can make out, XE340 has returned to Yeovilton from the museum at Montrose and is stored outdoors with canopy intact? It appears to be a parts mule for the display aircraft, so they might be happy to loan the canopy?

I thought this was going to be another Hendon thread. :highly_amused:

I’m not sure what to make of this really. The punk ethos has always been iconoclastic and something of a moveable feast, philosophically. On the one hand you have the National Front knuckledraggers of Sham 69, and on the other you have the new wave and art rock pretentions of Television or Magazine. Was it invented in the US by bands like MC5 and the Stooges, or in the UK squarely by the Sex Pistols? Weren’t the Pistols simply a manufactured band akin to the Monkees, ripping off Diamond Dogs-era Bowie and the New York Dolls in equal measure? Was Sid Vicious’ bass ever really plugged in? So many questions!

I think that burning all of this memorabilia is a bit bratty and attention-seeking, but I’m not going to lose sleep over it.

Whittlesford to Duxford takes me 25 minutes and at no time do you have to go ‘ambling along the side of a motorway’ besides ‘ambling along the side of a motorway’ is against the law.

Brian

You are proving my point. 25 minutes of walking versus the ~5 from Colindale to Hendon. To get to Duxford, I was advised to get a train to Whittlesford Parkway, then follow Royston Road, and the footpath it becomes that follows the North side of the A505. You still have to cross both slip roads from the A505 to the M11 and cross the A505 itself to get to Duxford. Not a herculean task, but still a shade unfriendly and off-putting in terms of public transport access. Other options are an expensive Taxi or use one of the Cambridge/Duxford bus services. Nothing seems to link the museum itself to any settlements nearby, except for a shuttle bus from Cambridge on airshow days.