It was a birdstrike during what looks like a level pass along the runway. Picture isn’t the best, but the speed on the HUD (top left) looks like 250Kt initially. Trading this speed for height (by pulling the nose up) would be a fairly standard manouevre in something sharp and pointy like this. I think it was a Hawk (the aircraft, not the bird!!)

….followed by the Beverly? 🙂

I’ll make some enquiries tomorrow, I may be able to help. Can you PM with details of who you spoke to last?

Top pic is WJ288, which spent most of it’s post-service life at the Southend Museum, before ending up in the States. Lat known airworthy in 2002, any further update?

The other pics are for the ‘drool factor’!!

All taken by Peter Taylor and kindly loaned to me to make these copies about 10 years ago.

Can’t see the Javelin or the Meteor going anywhere in a hurry then! Nor the rest of the collection, quietly rotting away in the far corner of the airfield. 🙁

You’re lucky you moved the Bucc when you did, another wet spell and it would have been up to the fuselage in mud. 😉

‘They’ don’t really want it off site. The new MD is very keen to see historic aviation on site. The problem is, with very limited space and even fewer funds available, a ‘museum’ isn’t financially viable at the present time.

Any news on the other ‘developments’ at Deenethorpe?

Great big, long runway but not much else in the way of infrastructure…

The very brief Le Bourget shot was filmed at Shoreham