Olympic Airways ran them for a while in the 1970s, as far as I am aware the only civil user of the type in Europe.

Cosford went advance ticket only this year. I suspect the reason is to do with traffic management in and around the airfields as much as anything, with guaranteed income a secondary matter.
Surely there must be show organisers on this forum who can give us a definitive answer?

Am I right in thinking that in 2015 the F2B is the commonest Bristol type flying now? Funny old world 😉

First jet I ever flew on, Gatwick-Rome-Tel Aviv in September 1972 (G-ARJL, formerly Olympic Airways and then BEA Airtours). My main recollection now is how much noisier the cabin was when aft of the jet pipes.

Looks like it’s definite now, on Oct 15

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/08/sad-loss-holidaymakers-workers-blackpool-airport-closure

At the risk of a little thread drift, there’s always the mystery of the Royal Navy’s Leica cameras. Britain had a reasonable supply of Leicas in 1939, thanks to the seizure of the UK importer’s stock, and a trickle of captured cameras. But that doesn’t explain the appearance of a whole batch of 1941-vintage Leicas that ended up in Royal Navy hands. Possibly – probably even – bought via an intermediary in Sweden or Switzerland, but who really knows?

It’s worth remembering that the 1950s Dam Busters film was effectively the film of the book by Paul Brickhill, published in 1951. (Or, to be accurate, a chunk of the book, which takes the 617 story forward to VE Day).
Researched and written less than ten years after the raid, Brickhill’s book has an immediacy that caught the public imagination and has never left it since. As a narrative it’s unputdownable, but it’s hardly the definitive account. Many details were still classified or hidden away in the archives, unresearched and simply not available. If you want line by line, memo by memo, research, then go for the later accounts, notably John Sweetman’s The Dambusters Raid of 1982, or maybe Alan Cooper’s The Men who Breached the Dams, from the same year.
Does anyone know what the main source for the story in the new film will be? If it sticks to the Brickhill account, then I fear it will be a lost opportunity.