There’s also this one, which I think has been discussed here before:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=unF1QIdwdfs

Worryingly, I saw it first in a pub with the sound off, and recognised it as DX (and I don’t go all that often either…). Yes, the stars-and-bars are a bit silly but I’ll forgive it those for the fantastic shots of the Hunter way up in the sunlit cumulus – way up beyond the burning blue, or whatever the line is.

The Travis one really is filmed at DX – the road in the vid is the road on the hill behind the airfield as well (you know – the one that is in the background of every photo ever taken at DX!). For a while we had rellies up there, which was fantastic and tantalising to visit – hearing everything going over at full chat, and missing seeing most of them. No longer, sadly. And wherever you are, Mark, hope it’s playing amongst the clouds…

Adrian

Think we removed anything that wasn’t bolted down!

Shhh, you fool! Now he knows who has the bits! :diablo:

Adrian

It’s also worth pointing out that that still means that an early 1940s computer could process as efficiently as a late 1990s machine – some 55 years younger.

No doubt we will have an influx of tech types telling me that my terminology is all to blazes, but you hopefully see the point.

Adrian

Bet if you found a local newspaper from the time, you’d find you couldn’t. After all, the first gun control act in 1926 was an answer to all the crimes being committed with… yes, war souvenirs. Presumably by men who had done enforced military service as well – see the criers of “Give ’em National Service!” on the Woodhall thread.

Nuremberg in 1932 was probably quite a safe place – perhaps we should take some lessons from there?

Adrian

Nice I like to see a P-51 or a Spitfire at Headcorn 😎 Is headcorn ex USAF and its not the normal headcorn airfield there was one north east off the Village i think and will the Yak be back?

Ouch! It’s like trying to read James Joyce!

What is now Headcorn airfield was an Advanced Landing Ground or ALG built late in the war (probably about 1943) when a push into Europe was looking a distinct possibility. A number were built in Kent, of which the three I remember were Staplehurst, Headcorn and Lashenden. Confusingly, the third of these is what we now call Headcorn! As far as I am aware, that has been the “normal” Headcorn airfield since flying restarted.

I don’t know if they were officially USAF bases, but the USAF certainly operated from them. If you look at the Gathering of Mustangs write up in the latest Flypast, one of the chaps they quote flew from Lashenden.

What you need is a copy of the relevant book in the Action Stations!
series – it will give you chapter and verse, I’m relying on memory.

Haven’t a clue a bout the Yak as I’m not local any more.

Adrian

Why didn’t they put the Martin Baker MB5 into production

Cheers

Cees

Why do people get stroppy when you walk past the fence at Chalgrove and say “Oooo! So that’s where they left it!”?

Adrian

And if your masculinity can take it, it should still be on “listen Again”…

Last Thursday’s “Women’s Hour” on Radio 4 had an interview with Moira Johnson, who was a leading light of the Yorkshire Gliding Club in the 1930s.

(IIRC, by the way, Diana Barnato-Walker was the first and, I believe, the only person to bring a Typhoon back after a major structural failure)

Adrian