I would guess that West Germany would have had a requirement for a GR1 / GR3 for the same reasons that the RAF had them in Germany, at the time they were buying (and building) Fiat G91. Hawker’s demonstrated the early Harrier to the Swiss, so there must have been some interest there, and maybe Sweden as well ?

Just to put this into context – I think this is where the Spitfire came down:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3269122,0.0388634,121m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Dan

Interesting Google image actually has a Spitfire sitting on the 11 end.
Out off interest which is the BHHH hangar, and can much be seen from outside, is there public viewing area ?

Totally the evening light was very nice, and the images shown here are excellent, and different from the norm, I just hope the Snipe and Albatros will be shown off at a later OW event.

Was the ‘nightshoot’ a pre arranged event or just a happy coincidence, saw the hangar lights as I passed by on the way home.

But in the long run, a bigger-picture approach, with museums selling wreckology items to collectors on a more regular basis, might stop parts being needlessly lost or corroding away further outside, and additionally prove a valuable source of income to be fed back into preservation.

Maybe Yorkshire Air Museum should have done with the Herald, or what bits are left of it.

After the fall of France the Hawk 75’s were either passed to the Luftwaffe and used as fighter trainers, or flown by Vichy French forces against the Allies during the North African landings.

Been going to Goodwood since the 1990s and I have to say that it improved (less crowding) when they introduced the advanced ticket-only entry.

It may be relatively new for airshows, but it also makes a lot of business sense.

All round (from my experience) it has thus far been an entirely positive move.

Precisely the point. The IWM will double the admission price, half the number of tickets and say what a wonderful event the Duxford airshow but only those who get free tickets or can afford the high prices will get in. Sadly the result will mean the average man in the street will be forced to watch from outside, and that will cause a whole load more problems.

Heard some pre flying display commentary at Legends about the September airshow being ticket only. Very much a PR exercise with the nice lady from IWM explaining how the “visitor experience” can be improved by having a limited advance bookings. Utter rubbish the only thing IWM, and most other airshow organiers, bother about is making a profit. Now before people start shouting I do understand that if the airshow makes a loss this year there might not be another one next year, this has happen with so many good venues and events in the past. But to claim the event can only be a success if it is advance ticket is wrong, only the right show content, will make a success that the public will want to visit again. I do fear that IWM will be looking at next year and would not be surprised to see more ticket only events. I am sure there are some within IWM that would be quiet happy to loss some to the general public and concentrate on the invited guests and VIP’s which appear to be all the more important at events like Fairford, Silverstone and Goodwood, not to mention the sporting events like Wimbledon and the Open Golf.

I would not mind if the commentary team if they were actually talking about the aircraft currently, or about to display, but the Frenchman seems to just drone on about what ever is in ‘his mind’ and it seem to have no relevance to what was is the sky at the time. One such point being his waffle about a pilot (French) who flew a P-38, but his most important attribute was being a best selling author off, I think, children’s books. Whilst I dont want to enter discussion about who won the war but from what I heard it was mostly France and Frenchmen.