9. Banana Bread Beer

Welcome to the forum.
Re your suggestion – I doubt it’d get much population and we probably have enough already…
Again welcome and enjoy

8. The Andes

3. Glider landings on D-Day

Nope…

I used to work at Caversfield and yes all refurbishment was done to preserve the outlines of the buildings. All the trees were logged as well and are subject to “preservation” i.e. no chopping down unless damn goo d case can be made.

Bicester has had as far as I know one jet land there – a Jet Provost when 71MU were there. It is a facinating airfield. The Halifax prototype first flew there. An AW Ensign made a deadstick landing there whilst undergoing development flying. 8 Beverley’s were scrapped there as was a Hastings. The Hendon LAnc was restored there initially and a large number of historic aircraft passed through the gates thanks to 71MU and the exhibition flight.

Bicester’s tower is quite good inside but the second floor is so low it’d onkly be good for midgets to stand up in. No good if you are in the region of 6ft plus.

Finmere, former home of the VAC events, is indeed now privately owned with one runway in this part and the market utilises another one of the runways (Of which the tower is adjacent to.) The third runway has mostly been dug up. The tower at Finmere is quite intact downstairs with tiles etc oin the floors and walls but upstairs has had all the internal walls removed and is just a large open space with puddles where the roof leaks. The balcony and upper extension were removed long ago.

G-ASML.
I thought the immigrant place was supposed on the former “B Site” of the Army depot and not part of the RAF site at all. I thought the Officers Mess was a care home.
Gary

No, not as far as I know but they could ship one. 😀

Denys

I quite agree. Duxford and Cosford both have a fine collection of civil types and they should be brought inside too. Most of the flying done in the 100 and a bit years is civilian.

The Yorkshire Air Museum have done some redressing of the balance and have some general aviation types too.

I agree with JDK the proliferation of museums in the South mean it is easier to go for the “smaller options” in terms of collecting. Also a large airframe needs a lot of space to be indoors and if left outside will consume alot of time and resources to keep up to a respectable standard. “Smaller” types can be rotated on a restoration programme and more “processed” in the same amount of time.

As I’ve mentioned above. A large airframe needs a large building and that attracts large investment costs in designing, getting approval and building it. You can fit a larger number of smaller aircraft in therefore better business sense too for many of the museums with small budgets.

The trouble is with all the muesums in the Southern part of the UK means the other museums in the Northern part of the UK get overlooked. How often do you hear of these museums on these boards? Most of the time it is Duxford and Old Warden to a lesser extent. Whilst they are fine museums/collections we don’t hear much of the others in reality do we?

Just my initial 2d