Going back, the late Pete Treadaway and his sons Paul and Peter, also the late John Littleton and his sons Paul and David

Of course and Paul is now with TFC and Paul & David are both still involved at Duxford too.
There’s also Neville & Matt Howell, although I haven’t seen Matt for a year now.

As a matter of interest, how many father and son teams work in the vintage aircraft world? Limit the replies to Duxford, if you want to stay on the topic of Duxford Diary.

Steve & Lee Kingman, John Romain and his sons, Clive Denney and his boys Glen & Andrew.
Amazingly, the Steve’s seem to be way out in front with this, with the ‘John’s’ currently in second place.
Why limit it to father and sons though, as you could also apply the thread to the women as well?
How about Carolyn and Richard Grace, and some past masters could also apply with Ray & Mark Hanna, the late ‘Hoof’ and his two sons Lee & Ian Proudfoot and the late John Larcombe & his daughter Jane, by now I think is Mrs Gauld-Galliers (good luck to her and Rob).

I’m sure there are more.

I saw B-17 ‘Sally B’ fly over Braintree twice this afternoon, on her way and back from the show at Damyns Hall near Upminster.

Yeah I saw her too!!!!
She was east of the town heading south at about 3.15pm and then later to the west of the town heading north at about 3.45pm. 😀

B.29 still parked at eastern end of apron and nicely positioned for photographs particularly afternoon onwards when sun has moved round.
Duxman

I believe it will be moving to a slightly different location during the first half of next week.

Great contributions, as always. A special thanks to Mauld, the quality of your videos continues to improve and stitching together an individual aircraft flight, from taxi out to taxi in, with multiple take off and landing shots, gets a big thumbs up from me.

They are good, but there must be some help given to him too. You cannot video from two different places….at the same time!
Keep up the good work though Mauld, there’s never enough decent video.

well either I am WELL out of touch on the current value of a P51 restoration project, or 700K for a semi new build section of fuselage, some pattern only tail surfaces, a set of wheels, and a few tupperware boxes of bits is a fishing exercise.
Then again, I guess Platinum Fighters has quite a track record of sales….

That is one pricey data plate? :rolleyes:

This report is nearly a year old already!
I’m sure this has been on here previously.
Eighth in the east……except the Northants Eighth that is?
I love the fact that having excluded Northants…..unless they can get even more money, the article then goes on to quote about researching some ‘missing Sistine Chapel’ artwork at guess what……a Northants airfield!!!
I guess they are trying to pre-empt their justifying securing the next big handout.

Exactly what is it they are “preserving” anyway?
Title reference is to documenting the artwork, not the actual preservation of it and to be honest, what USAAF artwork is still out there that has not yet been recorded or is known about already….excluding Northants of course for now??
I’m not comfortable about a couple of guys that nobody had heard of, suddenly getting a massive lottery handout, on something that has already been covered by many before them!
What about the USAAF bases in Lincs, Bucks, Salop (Shropshire) to name but a few for example, which although not in the east, are just as important, or are those in reserve for yet further funding applications?
Could somebody actually point me to something really tangible, not some little something here or there, that these people have actually done, particularly justifying the huge sum of money they were given?
There are people on this forum that have done far more visibly, for the preservation of Aviation and the USAAF in particular, without the funds this organisation secured.