West Raynham, then Bircham Newton, then I presume in the Stanford Training Area, with the closing scenes back at Raynham.
Before becoming the Delaine bus garage, weren’t those premises Raymond Mays’ ERA and BRM works?
I think the business rate exemption has been reduced to just six months, which is why a lot of buildings are being demolished these days. If a quick sale cannot be arranged, perhaps the demolition gangs will be in at Woodford as well.
Anyone know if Mike Hawthorn ever flew himself up to Folkingham for testing when he was with BRM?
I think Ron Flockhart used to fly up to Folkingham in an Auster – anyone know the reg?
But what about airworthy Buccaneers and Hunters?
Hi OzJag:
Try this website about Open General Export Licences (OGEL) – Historic Military Goods:
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1084314708&type=RESOURCES
Edit: this page gives lots of hyperlinks for all aspects of export control, including the Department for Business (or whatever its called now). This is where you need to be for export licencing, not with HMRC.
A lot of what you have suggested is already available on the web, at sites including the de Havilland Moth Club Service Register, which is available (even to non-members) here:
http://www.dhmothclub.co.uk/msr/
There are 93 categories ranging from AGS Minor Spares to Zinc Chromate, all there by recommendation. I don’t see any sense in reinventing this part of the wheel.
Russell: I remember your grandfather as one of our instructors at Halton in the period 67 – 70. Don’t have any pics of him I’m afraid. You might try the Trenchard Museum at Halton because as well as pictures of the Apprentices they also have some data on the instructors.
You don’t have to look at them all. Keep it Brian!
Mods: Merge if you want. However, the search engine needs a big kick up the proverbial because it failed to identify the earlier thread after five search attempts.
That’s the terminology on the MOD Contract Notice. The detailed invitation to tender document might be asking for prices to include dismantling and the road move, and a separate price for reassembly. They might then chose to reassemble later or have two different contractors, one for the move and another to reassemble. You would have thought, though, that the people who took it apart would have a pretty good idea of how to put it together again, and would therefore be able to do it at a better price than someone new to the task.
I wonder how many people are writing books on the MRA4 debacle? I think Stephen Hastings was first to cover the TSR2 debacle with “Murder of the TSR2”, but “Murder of the MRA4” sounds as though it will be much more interesting. I will certainly be a customer for any such book.
I suspect that they have been forced to make an early application for the Permit to Fly so that the CAA can open a file and start raising invoices at £189 per hour as they drive around the M25 and up the A1 to Lincolnshire.
I see on the CAA website G-INFO that an application was made for a CAA Permit to Fly for G-ASXX on 5 January 2011, and that it has more recently been restored to the rgister.
You need to go to the AiX Forum:
http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/forum.php
There is so much about RAF architechture over there it will make you go weak at the knees. You can also learn about all the books that have already been published on the subject.