Filton is situated between the M32, M4 and M5 and the main line from London Paddington to South Wales via the Severn Tunnel passes within a few hundred yards of the airfield perimeter.

So yes. 🙂

I know nothing of the sort.

All you have presented in response to my common-sense argument that even the most talented of individuals depends on others to support and enable them is your usual bluster.

Not a lot, is it?

Stop yer ‘owling.

Public opinion won’t be one of the three officers that decide Sgt Nightingale’s case, though. (Assuming that he faces a District Court Martial rather than a General one.)

Nobody said these people did owe their genius to a committee. What a bizarre suggestion.

The fact is, however, that their individual genius would have been of little use without the groups and individuals who supported and enabled them in a variety of practical ways.

It’s just common sense.

They should have developed Filton. Long runway, right beside the motorway and railway.

Don’t ignore the hefty weight of public opinion. I understand from a reply I received from Sgt. Nightingale in Colchester that he had a huge mail response in support.

That proves he’s popular, but it doesn’t prove his guilt or innocence.

We’re talking about the course of justice here, not Britains’s Got Talent. 🙂

Thanks, Jim, that means a lot to me.

As I said, it’s something I usually prefer not to talk about.