Pics of what was there in (judging by the cold wind!) early summer 1994 can be found at the very bottom of this thread:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49989&page=2&highlight=carnedd+dafydd

Possibly 80% of span was a bit of an over-estimate, but it was still a fair-size chunk. I’ve seen a pic of the other wing, which was basically complete except for the nacelle – we didn’t see it, though the terrain is very ridged in the area, very easy to miss things lying between the ridges, so I don’t know whether it was still up there or not.

Why in God’s name go to the effort of dragging a lump that big off the hillside just to scrap it? I mean -if it had been a Spitfire it’d be flying by now!

😡 Adrian:mad:

Errrr… Would you mind awfully editing your title a bit? I’m sure I won’t be the only person to think that the RNHF have had a calamity!

Adrian

Ditto!

Adrian

IIRC there was a piece in A*******e Monthly a couple of years ago. Like the Hermes, the scrappies got to it – just a centre section left behind now.

Adrian

So here’s my contribution. Writing to Reach You by Travis with Fran being straffed in a field by a Buchon.

Yes, you know you’ve been to Duxford too often when you think “I know that skyline…”. Several chunks of the video were shot on Grange Road which runs parallel to the A505 on the other side of the airfield, too. See also that Fatboy Slim video with the Belfast Truss hangar…
(retentive mod *off*)

Adrian

(anyone care to place a bet on how long before THAT Ray Hanna clip gets mentioned?)

Oh MANURE!

I’ve been trying to avoid buying this month’s copies until I get this damn essay finished… you lot are a baaaaaaaad influence! 😡

Adrian

As Jamie says Ford used to use Boreham to test vehicles on, so I suspect that “BorehamFord” is Ford’s area (or whoever has supplanted them) of operations on the airfield. There’s certainly no parish of Boreham Ford, and a hamlet with that name would probably be closer to the village than the airfield.

Any help?

Adrian

I suspect that the Mystere is actually owned by the USAF Museum, which would complicate matters. No doubt someone (JDK perhaps?) can explain why the USAF owns a load of French aircraft around the place – I cannot remember the logic myself.

I was about 9 when I visited the Rebel Air Museum at Andrewsfield and it was pouring, so the dead snake made more impression than the presence or absence of the Mystere! However it must have been there for the biggest part of 25 years, so it is a small wonder that it isn’t a heap of oxide now. A year or two ago someone on here was planning to give it a polish – I wonder if that happened?

Does anyone know what happened to the Rebel Air Museum’s collection after it closed at Earl’s Colne? Apart from anything else, their Marauder rear fuselage surely was an artefact worth preserving.

Adrian

EDIT – by the way, I am very jealous of Ref for seeing a Spitfire there! Thanks for posting the pics – even if they have made into a green-eyed monster!