The report I saw said that Sandown on the Isle of Wight was the only airfield that had pollution levels below the EU limit.
Am I missing something or could it be because it doesnt have huge volumes of kerosene being burnt by smelly jet aircraft, and a nice blow down the channel to clear it away, and the complete lack of any vast gridlocked motorways nearby.

Bit late adding to this but have Just found a copy of ‘Forever Farnborough’ by P.J.Cooper and that states that a C119 was loaned to the RAE in the early 50’s continuing para drop trial work previously done by Halifax and Hastings. A number of large load drops were accomplished.
The C119 was also used to return much of the wreckage of one of the Comets that crashed in the Mediterranean in 1954.
Strange that no pictures or details have turned up especially with the publicity surrounding the Comet.

My First Post.
I always thought the Hastings on the Boscombe dump was WD496 (with the long nose probe) it was certainly there in Feb 73, somewhere it read it was taken out of service following a mishap of some sort. TG502 went to StMawgen in late 1972 for fire practice and was gone by 1977. TG500 the third A&AEE Hastings went to Bicester also in late 72 and later the parts turned up at Catterick fire school where it was roasted.
While on the subject of trials Hastings does anyone have a colour pic of TG506 that the RAe used at Farnborough for para work, it had a black lower fuselage and centre section with the outer wings in target tug black and yellow,rest of a/c was standard with dayglo adornment. It was present at the 1960 show.