Lovely nostalgic footage. I started visiting Old Warden in the early 70s when we moved in to the area and have so many fond memories of visits there. My father, who worked at Woodley in the early 30s, enjoyed his “time-warp” experience, each time I took him there.

It is in the milestones of flight at Hendon and is an original

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/aircraft_histories/85-AF-69%20Me262%20112372.pdf

Haven’t been to Hendon for ages and don’t remember it. I’ll be there this year tho’. Thanks.:)

The death of a “hero” will always attract malicious and salacious “gossip”. The facts will never be known for certain although clearly some conculsions were drawn on examination of the aircraft.

But all the conjecture becomes a bit pointless because it can never be finally resolved. What is for sure is that he was one of a number of fine and brave airmen who did not survive the war. That is all that really matters.

not sure i would be very happy to see my impending redundancy on a website…..i would be really p****d off with someone at the top of the tree…..twice in 12 months i am under threat of losing my job…..Off like a shot is the words i am looking for.

I think this must be the only page out of 87 where there is no emotional types trawling up those old cliches’ (sorry if spelt wrong).

i have said it before and i will say it again.

UNSUSTAINABLE………..”nuke bomber”……”not very green”………”depression/recession” oh sorry, forgot God Gordon says that is all over now.

big begging bowls don’t work anymore

they really should pack up and go home.

they (the management) are really making themselves look a bit silly now.

If i was one of the potentially redundant employees and having to write a cv, i don’t think i would be putting my “Vulcan operating Company” experience on it…….can you imagine what a potential employer would think?

I don’t follow all of this. Presumably it was sustainable when it started because it succeeded in its original intention. Why a project should be invalid because it is ” a nuke bomber” and “not green” I fail to understand. And the depression/recession was not even a blip on the horizon when the project was launched.

And if the entire enterprise was judged a success up to the end of last year why would a potential employer view a CV in negative terms, as you imply? Any potentially redundant employee is in no different a position from any potentially redundant employee of any other of dozens of compamies forced into administration.

For me the special treason for posting is that it is wonderful footage. And I bet there will be a few eagle-eyed forumites on here who will have indentified each aircraft and the airfields featured. If so I eagerly look forward to reading the posts.

Sorry, David. I regretted using that word after I had posted it and I accept your points. It was not meant in a derogatory sense, in any case. A museum near York – mmm.:)

I sense that the contentious issue is that many people work in the historic aircraft restoration business for nothing – as volunteers – and that this is what sticks in the craw of some posters here. Or have I misread their feelings?

It would get my vote.:)