Whilst so many of you good people out there, including myself, have enjoyed researching so much within this thread, I was tonight looking for other information within ‘flightglobal’ and stumbled upon something which, I hope, may answer some questions raised earlier !
During the long and very interesting debate, in the earlier part of the thread, concerning a very large and diverse collection of aircraft at Wittering, there was no definate dates suggested, or reasons for this collection at the time !
Well I have learned that during early July 1936 King Edward VIII toured four Royal Air Force Stations in one day, flying in his personal dH Dragon, or Dragon Rapide ?
Northolt Fighter Station
Mildenhall Bomber Station
Wittering Flying Training
Martlesham Heath Test and Experimental
Could this be the reason for a large collection of different aircraft at Wittering on one day ? There are no photos of ‘the day’ as it states in the flight account that photographers were ‘kept at bay’ ( but of course ‘flight’ have some ).
Maybe I am completely wrong with this theory but who knows ?
Keith Newsome.
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