Possibly a consideration with diesel (as sold for motor vehicles) is the waxing at the temperatures aircraft experience around 40,000 ft?
As for disposal I would have thought clearing the area and setting the spillage on fire would be the least environmentally damaging, though a tad dramatic and bad P.R.

A-29 Hudson Wright Cyclone engines based on Lockheed 14
A-28 Hudson P&W Twin Wasp engines based on Lockheed 14
B-34 Ventura P&W R-2800 engines based on Lockheed 18 Lodestar

Heston References

Neil….At the bottom of the Wikipedia page for Heston Aerodrome there is an excellent list of books , magazines and websites relating to Heston. ‘Coming In To Land’ by Tim Sherwood is essential and I think it’s still available to purchase from Hounslow Libraries (the publisher) for about £13 (or can be borrowed from the library)…The ‘Airfield Focus’ booklet on Heston is very good but out of print (I think).

Re Milk deliveries in the 50s/60s…yes a day in the summer sun was guaranteed to ‘yoghurtize’ your doorstep pinta! The Job’s guy I helped had been a medical orderly so was left behind with the wounded when the Dunkirk evacuation happened and spent the war in a PoW camp …..Mick

I think you lived in the 1950s built houses which replaced the derelict house I thought for a long time was the one hit by the Mustang…did your father work in movies?

…..Viscount, Canberra and Hunter. So, UK could hold its head up….

I’d say that with Canberra, Viscount, Valiant from about 1952 to 1958 the UK could hold its head up (note it’s mostly Vickers under George Edwards)…if the Comet I had held together and the Britannia programme had been run like the Viscount’s and the V1000 hadn’t been cancelled there would have been a lot more exports. Later on the BAC-111 and HS146 did fairly well

The station photographer at Northolt recorded the take-off (, no payload, enough fuel to get to Heathrow) and it got off in about a third of the runway. It was a JT-4A powered original Intercontinental model not the later developed JT-3D fanjet model with the developed high lift wing….which all goes to show the 707 could use a 1 mile runway at the right weights 🙂 and they sometimes flew in an out of Southend for resprays/maintenance, I believe
http://www.abpic.co.uk/results.php?q=pan++northolt&fields=all&sort=latest&limit=10

THe book doesn’t give an ASDA figure for Greenham so you could be correct
Probably not relevant but Bedford had 10500ft(ASDA 10500 also) and Boscombe Down had 10537ft (ASDA 10537also)
Heathrow wasn’t extended to 12800ft until the 747 arrived I think

Wasn’t GCs r/w almost 10,000 but with over 900ft overrun at each end of the runway which could be used if needed?

B-17s at Bovingdon

Think that was for ‘The War Lover’ and I think I saw the B-17s when they came through Gatwick about 1961