I thought that the show was, as always, amazing. Well done and thanks to all that made it possible. The pink colour of the Victor IS correct as clearly, it would have quickly weathered to near hemp in the desert conditions. Indeed, I can remember aircraft going out in exactly that shade of pink and the comments that it generated back in 1990.

Anyway, what I wanted to ask was: Is there another problem with XR728? I ask because it always seems to be static these days? I remember the pairs run a few years ago which was just AMAZING!!! Any plans to do that again?

Thanks

Paul.

many years ago, I read in a newspaper about a big issue with some houses built immediately post war. It was said that they were falling to bits and that they were made partially of parts from scrapped world war two aircraft. I can no longer find any reference to this online.

Is this true? Can anyone elaborate?

Victor Bits

Yeah, I remember the Victor bits to Zebedee. When I went to my first airshow there in 1991 or 92, they were in some sort of fire training area close to XM603 that had radiation warning signs on the fence(!). From 93/94, they were gone. As I recall, there were intakes and a sizeable chunk of fuselage.

Paul

Were any of the aircraft (or parts of) saved. A book about the work of Gerry Zwannenburg (hope that is spelled correctly!) in the 1960’s indicated that a lot of the aircraft were substantially intact and in good condition, one tale being of some boys who managed to remove (and fire) some guns from a Wellington. I know there is a video called “some of our airmen are no longer missing” which showed an apparently good condition B24 in shallow water.

Does anyone have any pics of the aircraft that were found?

RAF Burtonwood pics

Hi!!! As promised, probably the last pics taken of RAF Burtonwood A and E site on 1/11/08. I tried to get on last year but some jobsworth security guard wouldn’t let me, so on a trip up North I drove over with a mate and managed to get pics of the last two hangars:

‘A’ Site

Towards ‘E’ site:

More of ‘E’ site in my next post cos’ I’m limited to 20 here apparently!

Paul

Does anyone know what time Flypast is on Friday?