Grumpy is not owned by FHC anymore and has not flown for at least a Year. Now owned by Paul Allen in the USA but parked at North Weald (?).
It will be a shame to lose this one to the states !!..
Possibly the one He saw was enroute to Brooklands to do a flypast to comemerate Dizzy Addicote. We held Dizzy’s Memorial service at Brooklands this afternoon and the Spit Mk11 (with invasion stripes) did a decent flypast around 4pm..
No Problems Brian.. As I said Great Pics.. Glad You had a good day..
Sorry the 1-11 was not open but We had just painted the floor on Thursday and needed 24hrs to dry.
Hopefully You will come back and see us sometime.. would be delighted to meet You..
Last there myself in June 1996, and saw the Halifax in bits.. They have done a brilliant job with it!!.. Nice to see the other changes in 10 Years also..
Hopefully see it again later this or early next Year…
MDF,
A thread was on this forum when the news about Cosford was released.. It quickly became apparent that in this country (UK) civil aviation does not interest many people. Civil Aviation = Airliners.. The original thread was removed and a new thread started which SHOULD have been the start of the “Hysteria” that You mentioned but it quickly faded from view… If this had been a Military collection I think the situation would have been slightly different !!..
VC-10 are still operated by the RAF (read an earlier message re cosford) but 707’s have never been operated by the RAF. excluding AWACS !!
Odd.. On one hand loads of us trying to save airfields from being housing estates and on the other trying to get a 3rd runway at LHR and demolish a village..
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