Incidentally the police officers on the gates are part of security, they are not lackeys or door openers for over blown politicians.

Actually you’re wrong. Their duties include opening the gate for access. No one else can. I should know I used to work in that Street.

Of course, if Mitchell had been polite to the officers in the first place then none of this would have happened.

…….and if the police had just opened the gates to Downing Street in the first place, none of this would have happened.

Well maybe leaving one at Bruntingthorpe on RAFM charge wouldn’t be such a bad idea until the RAFM are in a position to house one indoors?

Sounds sensible way forward.

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not sure if this has been posted before, apologies if it has. This photo has been posted on Facebook and is said to be Dennis Copping. A face to a sad story.

David B.
I was led to understand, by RAFM themselves, that the BA aircraft were owned by BA and never RAFM and it was when BA stopped any care and maintenance that RAFM asked BA to remove their planes. Also I recall that Cosford were a bit annoyed that BA never added a Concorde to their own collection. Just to confuse matters it was realised late in the day that, bizarrely, Boeing may have had a claim on G-ARVM as it and three other Standard VC10s (scrapped at Heathrow in 1976, VB, VE, VH) were PEX with Boeing for new 747s.
Anyway, the past is the past, let’s hope Bob gets there, somehow.

G-ARVM what have they done to you! a real shame your magnificent tail got scrapped. And your wings. Seems like only yesterday I was watching you from the Queens Building at Heathrow doing a touch and go; crew training I was told; in your smart BA livery. 1977ish? Had it been known that the RAF couldn’t get a VC10 into Cosford now, then perhaps RAFM could have just purchased G-ARVM from BA and painted it in RAF markings. joe public would never have known the difference. There is a civil Britannia there, painted in RAF colours – and Nobody really knows! (Apart from those on this forum).

……but could the bit of film have been lifted from the year before in 1956, when we know Monty was there? I have to agree although the pictures are B & W, the uniform in the pictures of 1956 and the “Monty” in the film both look khaki/green uniforms rather than blue. Although I am no expert on army dress, or indeed reading B&W photos.