Letticec Curtis’ Spitfire was in a Key thread in 2008 https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?83374-Air-racing-Spitfire-1948

Adrian…I think your map is early to mid-1960s…T3 there but not T1. Not heard of grass Runway 8 before…the bulge in the northern taxiway which was the Northside apron was there very early on. (there was a plan for another triangle of 3 runways north of the Bath Road)
I believe the impatience of Pan Am and AOA to use Heathrow rather than Hurn was the reason for the tents…the runways were ready but no terminal building

The houses match the group next to the Immigration Centre entrance opposite the REGUS hotel, as you say west of Hatch Lane…the B-29s alignment isn’t so bad…maybe there was a crosswind and LAPs runway were wide 🙂

Ian…28R Runway No1 was closed from about 1952 till 1955 while the road tunnel was dug by cut and cover. The eastern end was used for overspill aircraft parking from the Northside apron which BEA was using increasingly with Ambassadors and Viscounts and eventually all of their London ops went there when they had to vacate Northolt (Oct54?)…the passengers were processed in the modest Northside terminal then bussed to the temporary apron on Runway No1…BEA had several wooden huts adjacent for staff[ATTACH=CONFIG]260710[/ATTACH]
taken by R A Scholefield from a BEA Bristol Sycamore a few days before BEA moved to the Europa Terminal

Don’t know if it was NEVER used for landings/take-offs but by 1946 it was used to park ‘overspill’ aircraft https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW003345
from https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/search?keywords=heathrow&country=global&year=all you need to sign up to Britain from Above to get the zoom function etc.

There had been a couple of bad Liberator crashes in Southern England in 1945 with more than 20 passengers each, a converted Coastal Command aircraft near Blackbushe and a brand new single fin C Mk IX (RY-3) near Poole…I read Tangye was a pilot and in the MI5

Rosevidney1 is particularly curious about the pair of very large calibre gun recesses shown on the model whereas published sources talk of a 4-gun installation
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Did the Belfast use a lot of runway on take-off. I remember positioning myself to get a rotation shot of this one at Farnborough and it taking a few hundred feet more ( must have been empty, too?) Was the type cleared to use RAF Northolt?
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK-Air-Force/Short-SC-5-Belfast-C1/939203/L?qsp=eJwtjUEKwlAMRK9SsnYjgovu9AIKeoGYP9pPW/tJAvVTendjcfeYecwsJNPb8fF7LaCWDKzS0Y4KK49G7UI96jxpCqZbN6k3DwxPNm/GLH0zwzx0i%2BJcQ0nsOImgONI/v2iC/iqYbMuveNoHQK8b0%2BEYecpWBt424JwHWtcvA/01Uw%3D%3D