If they are so proud of their heritage why was Concorde G-BOAB abandoned at Heathrow for so long?:(

My memory may be playing tricks on me but at Flying Legends one year around the mid-nineties there was a small stall outside in front of XF708, with a team who were fundraising for her? I can vaguely remember one of them telling a visitor that all four engines were seized, not surprising considering it had been outside so long even then. At least she is inside for now, pity there is no room in with the rest, same goes for the Victor. . .

Good to see the full strength of the RAF turned up. .:rolleyes: Seriously was good to see the Hurricane from the Mid Upper Turret, a bit different as they usually cram a camera in the back of the cockpit and one looking through the ‘blister’ when the BBMF fly up the Mall.

Was good to see the Hurricane back over London again as well, when they did the flypast for the Queen Mother’s funeral they flew the 2 Mk 19 Spitfires and there was talk of no more single engined WW2 fighters allowed to flypast over London after that.

in Rowland White’s book ‘Phoenix Squadron’ one of the Buccaneer pilots mentions the aroma of hot WD40 being sprayed into the engines as they spooled down on Ark Royal’s deck as ‘wonderful, just like baking bread’. It must have been of some use out in a harsh salt laden atmosphere! When ‘Just Jane’ first went to East Kirkby they used to use lubricating oil to freshen the paintwork up before she was fully repainted.
Whatever you are using, well done to you all that give up your weekends etc. to enable an airframe to continue to survive our harsh climate.

Another great programme on at prime-time about the Battle of Britain, and yes I thought Ewen McGregor was OK, and it was even better to have his brother on as a modern day version of the 1940 pilots. Yes they need a name to get the normal lay public to tune in, they could have chosen a lot worse.

I would like to see a documentary on Sir Sydney Camm and all his designs, with the Harrier you would have a link to today and the Hurricane and it’s vital role in the BoB. Also a programme on how the Spitfire was developed to keep it ahead and a tribute to Joe Smith, who did quite a bit of the development, he often gets forgotten in a Spitfire feature.

A great programme, had almost given up thinking that ITV could make and show anything worth watching during prime-time viewing. Congratulations David, it will have brought the Battle of Britain to a lot of people. Yes some of the clips of film are well used but the public mostly won’t notice, this programme was made more for the masses rather than a few thousand aircraft enthusiasts. Hopefully one day some of the archives may be copied and shown one day for us all.

Dennis Bates, the observer corps man that David interviewed still reguarly rides his old motorcycles with the West Kent Section of the V.M.C.C. on their social run and rallies, and the machine that David Jason rode was a loaned Triumph Tiger 80, apparently he has a few old motorcycles of his own so getting his hands dirty looking round P7350 would have been like home from home!

Just one question from last night, Has Hawkinge relaxed it’s ‘No camera’s’ stance now? :confused:

According to the book ‘Dambuster Raid Crash Sites’ all the crash sites were cleared of wreckage years ago, and any small parts left have long since been recovered. . .