He has several centuries worth of restorations, and keeps buying more. There must be a hundred unrestored aircraft in his collection. Don’t expect to see the Sunderland, Lancaster or Mosquito fly any time soon
He’s like me with my models stash but with real aircraft.
They lanquish in the cupboard for years and then suddenly, out they come into the display cabinet.
Or get flogged of on ebay.
One day, one day…
What about jet aircraft?
John Travoltas 707?
I thought they turned the light down to be able to project movies?
I’ve never really seen it as a problem and as for phtography. Each exhibit has been done to death, photograhy wise, so is it
really that important?
Most photo’s we take just languish on some hard drive never to see the light of day anyway. Might as well enjoy them in the flesh.
Are there plans to restore the Sunderland? I was told in 2000 that he was going to build a 1940’s atyle terminal for her and restore her to fly from the Lake by his museum?
Has the museum now closed?
Ninja!
One turret looks like from an Anson. The others have a single gun. Sunderland or Whitley?

The shed. Antique for sure. Could be a 4 by 4 rustic or home built? Certainly needs some restoration.
The one with the train, possibly a Belman Compact Garden Shed?
The heavily modifed one. Perhaps a Clacton Imperial Bathing Shed?
She’s had the longest life of any vulcan, that’s a positive.
She’s still flying, definitely a positive.
There’s potential she will be looked after and ground run. Third positive.
Enougth with the negative vibes 🙂
With the passing of the Vulcan something far more profound will have happened. A piece of British aviation history will come to a close.
I doubt we will ever see an all British military aircraft produced by an all British manufacturer again. Certainly not a large delta.
:applause: Cracking inside the cockpit view from the Vulcan in formation with the Red Arrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=170&v=3IYzrvD_QNs
Amazing!
What’s the device making the `beep, beep, beep` noise in the Vulcan?
Very nice pictures.
We look in awe at the fighter Balbo but when you consider this is just one squadron’s worth
of fighters by WW2 standards it kind of puts the immense scale of the conflict into perspective.
No, I mean the real 111 that `that` aircraft was portraying.
One slight worry:does anyone know what happened to the Desert Buchon? It was conspicuously absent from the circuit after the Balbo…
Yes, would also be interested. Left the formation and didn’t return to Duxford.
When I saw the 190 fly at Legends a few years ago I thought it was a great aircraft.
It may not be a `true` 190 but it is pretty darn close!
Doesn’t it have a right to be a `warbird` in it’s own right?
Something that I’ve always wondered about was why Adolf Galland gave the
famous “give me Spitfires for my wing” comment?
Surely he wasn’t disgruntled with the 109 which was every equal to the Spitfire.
Was it just a `dig` at Georing?
Perhaps he should have asked “give me drop tanks for my wing” !
13:30 11/07/2015
Two Spitfires just `beat up` Blackbush airport!
One was a Clip Wing.
Just had a plane-gasm!