So running up an aircraft and getting the air-con running, supplying all that nice DRY warm air the the inside and avionics bays doesn’t do any good? Circulating fuel within tanks, preventing the sealant / bag drying and cracking is a waste of time???

Fair enough as regards weathering, but please look beyond that!

When I visited late last year there was talk of Mercedes reinstating a non banked bridge over the river to allow a circuit of sorts using part of the surviving banking and the infield area.

We had the wing from this one ( I believe ) in the Wing Bay at Abingdon. Outer 5 feet or so missing from mid spoiler position. I was aware it was a RAFG aircraft wing, but thought the accident had been in Germany.

Saw another similar wing taken off the one that hit the Tornado ( tragically killing the crew ) That one diverted into Leeming, I believe.

ZB615 has already gone, withdrawn some months ago. ( listed on demobbed, but so I can tell you! )

OK – I’ll let you get away with putting my beloved Pussy Cat in historic as long as you add the rider ‘RAF or French Air Force’ – come on, the Indians are still making them!

Ah well, at least we outlasted the F14……;)

I think he was asking about the HSI…………