Thank you, Hurn. I suppose I guessed at that answer and I was aware of the long and major efforts of the LPG and their QRA shed, from Wattisham I think. We will probably end up being grateful to have one or two taxying Vulcans and a taxying Victor, which, considering the costs and the age of the aircraft, is probably all we should expect.

Are there any US cold war bombers still flying, apart from the B52s still in service, of course?

Let me rephrase that. Replace conned by mislead – I did not mean to imply you were conned out of money but conned in the sense of being taken for a ride. But perhaps we are all far too sceptical and his motives and intentions entirely good. Perhaps we will be proved wrong, perhaps we will never know but your motives cannot be questioned.:)

So far as I recall the key points were made by ex-pilots from both sides and assimilated into James Holland’s comments.

xtangomike has summarised it extremely well. I have little to add other than that I enjoyed it immensely, so much so, that I will watch it again tonight on iPlayer. Having read James Holland and seen him from time to time, he is an able, well informed and researched presenter with, seemingly, no axe to grind, simply to present as rounded an analysis as possible of the events of Summer/Autumn 1940.

I hate to say it BB, but I think you were conned. I was involved in a not disimilar incident a year or so ago. I have to admire your motives but perhaps we must all be more sceptical than we wouild like to be. It is a sad reflection on the way of life in UK 2010.:(:(

With apologies, but I am a little out of touch with the latest in this saga. However, in short, are the likely annual donations enough to support the annual running costs of £1million, give or take, or is the only hope yet another big chunk of cash from a Russian oligarch or similar?

In this case the astonishing “new truths” seem to have come from as close to the horse’s mouth as we are likely to get………….