Hi, our open day is Saturday 8th July, gates open at 10.30am
Adults £12
Kids and OAP’s £6
There will be two separate lightning runs durning the morning and when they have both cooled down a pairs run in the afternoon

Love the SRA shed lads, looks great well done.
This is what it looked like before we took it down in May 2004 to make way for our ‘little’ shed

I have to add we’ve now got a ‘bigger one’ 😀 😀
And two years later we have this;

Anybody got 30K for the concrete ??

Phil,TT see you on the 17th June if your on site, we’re planning an antidet run with 904.

Cheers
Andy B

Hi all, please keep an eye on our site its now the Bruntingthorpe link to the outside world, I run it with another (which is why I didnt volunter to take the Cold war jets site on as well) also got two lightnings to keep active and a Q shed to build so Im abit busy with it all.

If you have any questions about Bruntingthorpe just post on our site above or here and I will do my best to answer them, you have also got Phil,TT, Denis and Plazz out there to drop in their two penth. 😀

Dont forget our open day on the 8th July by the way 🙂

Cheers
Andy B (LPG)

Here’s a few from me:

XR728 last November

XR728 on the evening of her delivery to us June 24th 1988

XS452 BT Cranfield 1993

🙂

Both Vulcan and Victor for me, the Victor just looks like something that someone drew with a pencil on a drawing board, (which they did) such lovely lines.
The Vulcan has such a great sound, not as good as a Lightning at low level mind you 😀

558 in March 1993

715 in Nov 2005

Hi, have a look here http://www.lightnings.org.uk/ Im sure in our video/DVD cataloge there is a copy with the Last,last Lightning show on or at least of the practice which was the day before when the weather was perfect. 🙁 🙁
The weather on the day was total Sh*** which is why not many camera’s were out or even working due the the ‘slight’ wetness.

Here’s a few still’s from the day, enjoy: 🙂

Our very own XR728 waiting for John Spencer

These next few sum up the whole day, my camera gave up in the end ! 🙁

This was worth getting wet grundie’s for

Cheers
Andy B (LPG)

you are all doing a great job well done,it is a bit upsetting as i have never had the privelige of seeing a lightning in the air..but in working condition is better then just rusting away in a museum..but im so happy about the bucc,it is one of my favorite aircraft of all time..i really cant wait to see one flying again….as you said like everything these days money is the biggest problem in getting these fantastic old classics airborne again.lets hope 1 day some multi billionaire will buy a shed load of these aircraft and fly them…..
keep up the good work.

Many thanks, like you say working condition is better than rotting away, its a happy medium.
As for a billionaire buying a shed load of these lovely old classics, it would have to be a small shed, there arent many left 😉

Please come along on the 8th you wont be dissapointed

Oh and here’s a couple of shots for you from my album’s, as you never witnessed them flying,
Binbrook’s last,last Lightning show, boy did it rain !
But it was worth the wet ‘trollies’

I love this shot it sums the day up

Andy B

no probs – sorry the quality of the pics is not too good – it was a bit bumpy up there today and most of my shots were blurred!

I didnt know about the hanger next to the Belfast hanger – when was that built? – is that for the ‘car re-processing’ company?

Its was built last year, its now the main spray shop/vehicle distrubution/offices building for the car and HGV contracts.
We have done well from it, due to making contact with contrators on site which have helped us out with the Q shed

Nice pics – what’s the circle of concrete north of the Lightning hangar?

Hi its the old USAF fuel dump, there is a concrete bunker in the middle of the circle which is all over grown now, the area is now where all the kennels for the security dogs are kept, somewhere you dont want to go unless your brave. 😉