I had wondered if they had finished, heard things weren’t going well.
I realise that there are various businesses inhabiting different areas of the site, and the harsh realities of the economic climate but just musing on how nice it would be to have a coherent collection in that part of the country – can but dream.:)
Of course very nearby Hullavington is another nice place to spend time.

Kemble strikes me as a great place to create both an aircraft and airfield museum.
The south site is RAF Expansion Era heaven with many of the original buildings and hangars still standing and in very good condition, and most faced in local Cotswold stone. The gas decontamination centre is one of the best surviving examples I have seen, complete with the original china bleach foot and shower trays.
Aviation wise the Bristol Aero Collection is housed there, along with Delta Jets, and it lays claim to both RAF and USAF maintenance usage.

Oh, and the cake is nice!

I think Tony (he’s not the only forumite to have sat in the Me410;)) is referring to the Ki-46 ‘Dinah’ at Cosford.
Before the Axis aircraft collection joined the two main RAF Museum sites they were kept at a couple of RAF MUs, the majority at St Athan where many of them were kept in ground running condition. Nice picture of the Me163 at St Athan here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdjt42/3620238080/.
There are various threads with pictures of the collection on here, but unsure if ‘search’ function is working again.

Sad to hear of his passing, Columbo was always on TV during the afternoons when I was growing up, in fact it felt like it was made over more years than it was. It was certainly a lot more down to earth than Quincy ME and the likes!
RIP

Very nice images, it is nice sometimes to not zoom right in on the subject, and these pre-war types seem to look so much better with plenty of sky and clouds behind them.
Some of the images at first glance in your link actually look like air to airs!:)

Fantastic updates and images again David, the Fury does look beautiful.

Fear not Deryck, that isn’t supposed to illustrate Halifax v Hastings, just the effect of stretching the wing on the overall taper.
However these two illustrations show my understanding of the the two types differing wing sections and the lengthened intermediate section

Hailfax wing sections

Hastings wing sections, note wing to fuselage fairings etc omitted for clarity.

Interesting to note that according to this source (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~akmitra/aero361/design_web/airfoil_usage.htm) that the NACA section is 23021 across the breed, that is one thing that I would have thought did change in time.