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March 10, 2005 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Can you remember ? #1410598

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Sorry, I was actually thinking of the huge concrete slab blast walls, the post war ones, hence the West Malling reference.
I realise now the DX pens were wartime E types.

Peter

March 9, 2005 at 10:22 pm in reply to: Can you remember ? #1411727

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Blast walls ! Remember West Malling? (Did the Beatles film I am the Walrus there?) also Tangmere.

Sorry, back to Duxford. I didn’t realise they had blast walls there. Did they always use them on the ‘Y’ shaped hardstands form the 1950’s?

Peter

March 9, 2005 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Most under-rated airshow in your opinion? #1411730

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I must live between two navigation beacons because we get a decent display over our house every year. Why leave home?

Last year we had 4 F-15’s (Are they Historic yet?) circle very low for about 10 mins and a few years back a Spitfire did some impressive acrobatics over our house.
BOBMF appear every year.

I haven’t been to an Airshow for a number of years but the smaller ones appeal to me.
Being a commuter I prefer to stay away from crowds at weekends. Chailey is not that far might give it a try if I can get a day pass.

March 9, 2005 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Vulcan set to fly #1411935

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I would love to see a Vulcan fly again, if only to hear 2,000 car alarms go off at the same time!

Sadly, I am a realist (cynic?) and fear that the costs alone will prevent a long term flying future.

Having seen a mock Vulcan scramble at Finningley in ’77 anything else is a bit of a let down.

Having said that I wish all concerned the best of luck.

Peter

March 9, 2005 at 9:19 pm in reply to: Anybody fancy an 'Indian'? #1411950

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Looks like a well laid out museum.

Anyone notice the potted plants in some of the pictures?

March 9, 2005 at 9:12 pm in reply to: North Weald??? #1411964

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Why are they planning to build houses on North Weald? It’s not a flood plain.

Sorry – Local joke!

March 9, 2005 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Preservation Heroes – Who would you induct in the HALL of FAME and GRATITUDE? #1411983

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Surely anyone involved deserves mention?

March 9, 2005 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Can you remember ? #1412008

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Glad The Duxford pictures were okay. A bit large though.

I have found another one. The control tower looks more authentic in this condition. I don’t know if the paintwork was for the Battle of Britain film but I believe there was a lot of chipboard partitions inside.

The missing hangar had no remains as far as I remember.

I have to say that it was the BOB film that prompted us to cycle to Duxford, followed by Debden, which had a gate guardian (Hunter I think).

I also wrote at the time to the East Anglia ??????? Society who were based there. Any one remember them (Or their name)?

Peter

March 8, 2005 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Can you remember ? #1414360

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Duxford 1972

I have just read the requests for the “old” Duxford. It prompted me to join today.

Hopefully the two scanned slides dated around July 1972 taken on my Instamatic appear okay.

They were taken whilst on a cycling holiday around the home counties airfields. Duxford was deserted apart from a couple of gliders in one of the hangars. There were brick huts on the south side and I remember cycling around the perimeter from the south and up the main runway heding west and coming back down towards the M11 end, which of course was not there at the time.

In need of some relief after my Top Deck Shandy and individual fruit pie we found that the control tower toilets in working order! The tower was open and we climbed on to the roof.

Probably the most memorable airfield visit!
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