Well for me it’s Duxford and OW
You have no idea what it is like living 12,000 miles away (yes I still prefer miles) and wanting to be there in the UK at all the shows and visiting all the sites and museums – I must be one sick Australian – I would LOVE to live in Blighty.
That is why I am so passionate about Dux and the systematic destruction of its character and ambience over the past 15 years – it still make me tingle standing there just after dawn with a light mistclinging to the grass- staring accross the airfield at the flightline at the promise of the slumbering Warbirds, knowing whats in store and imagining what it must have been like 60+ years ago. I look at the old hangers and building and imagine the wartime buzz of activity. Then I get jolted out of all of this by that bloody ugly Yank aircraft funeral home and the blossomingly atrocious “super Dud Hanger” thing at the other end – Ok it’s all done now but the future planning for the site should come back to reality and stop building all of these tombstones to Architectural Egocentric stupidity.
I will always go to Duxford – I will always enjoy it and I will always have an opinion but if you want the best environment for the future look to OW as an (admitidly smaller) example of maintaing the ambience whilst looking to the future.
Regards
john p
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