I too have that Aeroplane spotter mag, from memory it mentioned an Avro 504 and a DH60, will try and track it down.

In that pic of Silverstone the large grass area on the left was used by The World Aerobatic Championships in 2009. The largest aircraft was a An-2 support aircraft. The area is now used as the main heliport.
On the subject of motor sport at airfields there is Santa Pod drag strip aka ex RAF Podington in Northants I think.

I was thinking about the lack of books on this subject the other night. Has anybody produced a GW book similar to the excellent ‘Falklands-the air war’. Would love to read about the Jags and Buccs and how they fared in operations.

Maybe they should change the name to the French translation of ‘money pit’! Good luck to them but I feel they are waisting their time and money. Concorde was an very expensive airliner to operate.
Unless you get Air France or BA to operate( see those pigs fly!) the aircraft under their AOC on limited supersonic charter flights you have a situation of mabe no more than 10 flights before the project goes bankrupt should it ever get off the ground!
Europe in general has an awfull record for keeping former airliners in the air. Apart from Air Atlantique and the Swiss (Breitling Conni, Ju52’s etc),plus hopefully the Lufthansa L1049G’s there are no old airliners flying in the EU. No Viscounts, Caravelles or BAC111’s.
Really until Airbus and Rolls-Royce state their posistion on the project they should hold on to their cash. Or they could give it to me!

Any more news on whats happerning with the aircraft that are left here? Driving past today the Wessex, Hunter and two Meteors are still complete, the Drover fuselarge is still there but didn’t see its wings, the Prentice wings are still present too.

I well remember G-N94AA at heathrow and posaably some of the others? They were in standard BA scheme but with unique regs.The theroey was they were G red until they were handed over to Braniff crews at IAD and returned to G- when they left later for LHR. Anybody got a photo with the
G-N reg?

How about the Eastern Airways DC-3’s(G-AMPO was one) that operated into LHR for a while around 1980. Think it was a gimmick and they were later replaced by SD330’s.