RAF Hythe/Marchwood on the edge of the New Forest is up for disposal as well. Was home to Short Brothers building flying boats.
See news item http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/5393868.stm

A picture of J7232 appears in ‘Forever Farnborough’ by Peter J. Cooper ISBN 0-9519899-3-6.
Caption says ‘ Whatever was learnt from this German Junkers F.13 J7232 Acquired for evaluation and seen at the RAE on 5th November 1924, precious little of it seems to have influenced British civil aircraft manufacturers of the time . Possibly the most advanced aircraft in the world when this picture was taken,(five years after it first flew), all metal monoplane airframes, with high-lift cantilever wings were not found on comparable British types until shortly before World War 11’
Picture credited to the photographic archive of DERA Farnborough.

FIREBIRD Your right, runway 23 must have last been used about the time T4 was built. In my mind I had that down as not long ago but its 25years or so, time flies.
I was working at LHR in those days but soon after went to LGW so my memory of LHR is fixed as it was.

I am planning on going on Sunday, weather being favourable.

The Shuttleworth web site has a provisional list of flyers and that is most of the based stuff plus a Mustang, SU29 and Jet Provost.

Then its 6th May 2007 before the next OW display.

Have just realised it is 40 years since I first went to OW, 27 June 1966 to be precise. On that day the Avro Triplane, Avro 504, Blackburn B2, Tomtit all displayed. Hurricane Z7015 sat outside. The only visitor I can identify in a crap picture taken on the day is Tiger Moth G-ANRF and Cessna G-ASHE, this had an unfortunate accident when it tried to depart following the event.

The Napier Sabre’s fitted to Typhoons used in Normandy suffered dreadfully from wear caused by the very fine gritty dust found in the region, some engines had so much bore/sleeve that they were way down on power and used large amounts of oil.
Cant remember where but recall reading about squadrons being recalled to New Forest airfields to have new engines fitted. before returning to France, think Vokes designed a better filter.

Thanks for the pictures BUSTER. I am especially interested as I was there, probably at only my second airshow following one at Shuttleworth the same year. A very impressionable little lad in shorts.
Strange what memories linger in your mind but what I do remember is one of the glider tugs landing and its tow rope being very close to some spectators nearby. Also the Turbulent G-APWP had a wooden handled wire brush attached to its tail skid, brisle side down, seems a bit odd but I am sure its what I saw.
And in the fog of my mind I seem to remember an air race involving the Tiger Moths and one of them clipped the roof of a Volkswagen camper van in the car park with a wheel, but its nearly 40 yars ago so may be wrong with that.
Lastly something had a JAP engine, possibly the Minor or Flea, that confused me for years, why anyone would use a Japanese engine.

New RAF manpower cost reduction scheme, when the music stops those without an aircraft are out.

Hastings C2 WD492 crashed onto the Greenland ice on 16/09/52, it was supply dropping some equipment to a research station at the time and flew into a white out at 50ft, wing hit the ice, no casualties.