I visited a few years ago as well for my first ever flight – they have a collection of old ATC gliders, and also a US Navy warbird in bits apparently, any clue what this is?

C, if you ever get the chance, I recommned that you take! You will have a good time. I have yet to meet someone who didn’t enjoy their time in France! 😎

I didn’t! :rolleyes:

Thing is though, like Kev said, we don’t know the circumstances of what happened, no-one really knows how we’ll react when under extreme pressure, and I can’t think of a much more tense situation than about to be overran by the enemy. Although perhaps in some circumstances the officers could be criticised for their actions, in other circumstances they could have done the best they could have, so can’t tar them all with the same brush. I’m not criticising what you said, it’s just that with subjects like this you have to look at each individual case

Stupid question, but what does it mean by abandoning the groundcrew? For example, if it was a fighter squadron, they couldn’t exactly get the groundcrew to hang onto the wings while they fly off somewhere safe. Does it mean they basically flew off without making sure there was any transport for the groundcrew to escape on?

It’s a shame BA can’t fund a dedicated museum in Britain dedicated to air travel – could have a replica of early aircraft, like the DH.9A, Dragon Rapide, Handley Page thingy, etc, and have the Comet, Trident, 707 and Concorde, in a big building, maybe somewhere near Heathrow. I’d certainly go to it

Dont you mean ‘Great Britain’, at Bristol? The ‘Great Eastern’ was a lot bigger and unsuccessful. Theres also a Victorian Sloop HMS Gannet, late WW2 Destroyer HMS Cavalier and a sub at Chatham Historic Dockyard, and apparently a Black Swan WW2 Frigate is being brought back from Egypt to Liverpool in a few years time