Top photo looks like Northolts hangars viewed from southside, the lower photo shows the air movements building with the southside apron behind.
You can just see the hangars behind the Saab

And the movements building doorway on the right behind the Spitfire wingtip

Grandfather, Lt Harry Waghorn, on my father’s side enlisted in WW1, was commissioned and ended up in Egypt in the RFC.
His three sons:
Sgt Peter Waghorn, Battle of Britain pilot with 111 and 249 squadrons, KIA Malta 11 April 1941
Sgt Bryan Waghorn, 129 squadron, lost over the channel 28 October 1941
Mne Gordon Pursey (my father), Royal Marine Commandos, served just after the war in Palestine.

My mother was WRAF, three of her brothers were in The Royal Marines, think her father was Army.

The Eagle in Woodford Green was used by pilots from North Weald, don’t know if it still exists. Photo below shows two sgt pilots of 249 Squadron, Waghorn and Smyth, on 1 Nov 1940.

XG252 ! That aircraft gave us a lot of grief when we had it in for servicing when I was at Wittering :rolleyes:

DanS333 – I’m about to embark on a similar project! Aircraft lined up are an Airfix Heron and a Heller Rapide so far.
Airfix figures were OO/HO and if you look at the size differences in the range you can see the variation; OO is 1/76 and HO is 1/87 – and of course the kits were 1/72 :rolleyes:
The difference between 1/72 and 1/76 is negligible unless you’re a rivet counter.

Congratulations Andy

Avpin ! I remember it well. Got soaked in the stuff once when I clipped the locking wire off the drain valve cap ready to empty the tank on the Hunter – except I clipped the wrong bit of wire so when I undid the cap the whole drain valve came out covering me in the delightful stuff from head to foot…