I am also late to read about this sad news. Have for years been impressed and amazed watching Ray’s flying displays. We’ll surely miss him on the airshow scene.
Mark

Have not visited for years so I’ll also try to make it on Dec 11th.
Mark

I’ve tried to list the known BP turret survivors here: http://www.boultonpaul.com/preserved/ with thanks to those on this forum who have supplied pictures.
Have also heard stories of pits with turrets, wings and so on buried towards the end of the war. Appears there was a general policy to create landfill sites for surplus materials at various airfields or company premises.

Wow, I love that great shot of the two Sabres. Seem very close.

I should be there on Sunday and Biggin on Saturday, at least that’s the plan at the moment.

I agree with the other “Wow”s above.
Many thanks for letting us see these pics and excellent flypast/displays over the weekend, especially after having to swap Hurricanes for the Sunday.

For the Battle of Britain, the Then & Now book by After the Battle has many quotes direct from the ORB entries of the time.
A good general one is Defiant – The True Story, by the late John A Chambers, a former BP worker who got to know a fair number of surviving crew members whose stories he used throughout his book. This was published in 1997, unsure if its available now but the details are: ISBN 1 901405 11 7.
BJ & M Promotions (A Division of Newton Publishing Group)
PO Box 966, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN4 7TN
I’m currently working on an extended bibliography for the Defiant which I’ll put up on http://www.boultonpaul.com to accompany the forthcoming book Mike has mentioned.

Looks like a great show. Some very nice pics there.
After returning home on that cloudy afternoon as the sky cleared I had thought to myself it was looking like good weather for a flying evening. Shame it was not advertised more widely.