Boscombe Down had an incident back in September 1994 some sort of secret jet crashed on take off, base closed all public roads around base closed etc.

America had some sort of involvment with the plane, anyway just do a web search for “Boscombe down incidnet” and you can find lots of info and storys etc.
the Lightning T4 gate gaurd they seem more than happy to let you.

Me and a couple of mates were there on that very day, having driven up from the air show at Nancy. Unfortunately , one of my mates had a call from his wife who had been taken ill and we had to depart much earlier than we should’ve, weather was complete pants so we were’nt that bothered. It happened (allegedly) in the early evening in the dark. Certainly there didnt appear to be any extra security in place and we could park and photograph with no probs, leading me to think that whatever did (allegedly) crash there was landing from a divert or pan call. Certainly AFM wnt to town about it….:cool: :rolleyes:

There are still F-15C too

Moggy

And a couple of “D’s” too 😀

Folks its has been mentioned on several threads and there is now an update on the General Aviation thread on this forum.

Please dont start having a moan about lack of publicity etc etc, this has been put together by a few small group of aviation minded folks. We are aware that the Airport has received some bad press and yes hopefully this can redress the balance a bit. We are all learning as we go along and there are already many things we could and would have done differently. Plaese remember this is not a Cosford, it is not a full blown display, but we believe there are enough items of interest to make it a pleasant day out – who wouldnt want to take a trip above a Steam railway in an aircraft from the same period!!

We plan to have gates open to the public from 9.30, £5 per car all day including all occupants (the majority of the car park money will be going to the air ambulance.) I will update you when I know about the times for the Spitfire.

This is our first event of this type and Im sure it will be a little rough around the edges but who knows what may grow from small acorns.

😉

Thanks for that Olly, I must admit I never look at the GA forum and do realise your’re not a “Cosford” yet!!?? Just that some general info to other aviation related forums could have been of benefit. If you pm me with some more info (again lacking on the project propellor site) I could certainly distribute via various media.

Theres been absolutely f all publicity for this event and even after searching I’ve found only this thread about it. What time gates open?????? etc Pretty poor if you want public to support it and the very deserving charities involved.

Off ebay I picked up 2 interesting finds.
One is a VHS video called “Sky spectacular” consisting of 3 films – the first is from Biggin Hill BoB display 1974 – no commentary just music and sound bites (John Blake quips etc) great images of lightning F1, Phantoms, Vulcan, Nimrod, Victor, Poachers, Rothmans (the intended subject matter),and the superb and frighteneing Slivers Belgian AF F104 duo. Second is a film about the Rothmans displaying in Spain (1980 ish with Pitts) and the 3rd is the famous Concorde first flight footage with Mr Baxter on the mike “she flies she flies”…

The other is a profesionally produced cine film of Farnboro’76 that should have sound but when it was transferred onto VHS (at horrendous cost!) it was silent. Not very long but some good images on there.

Off ebay Ive picked up several air show vids – many from the states from the ’80s and it was good to get a copy of the Coventry UK confederate show from ’88.

I’d love to see those old shows 1970s shows available – not just Biggin but many other shows were broadcast. Finningley 77 – the Silver Jubilee Review would be my most requested – BBC covered that quite well including the then defence minister (Mulley??) fast asleep next to the Queen as the RAF’s finest were doing their stuff 😡

Dayglo is a type of orange isnt it? Thats my excuse anyway. You quite blatantly posted red so ner!!! :diablo:

Don’t worry – the Argosy is, according to what I was told, going into Hangar 1 after the Cold War exhibition has opened

Cheers for that – phew! thought another unique airframe had bitten the dust.

Air Support Command formd in 1967 as the renamed Transport Command, absorbed into Strike Command in 1972. I presume you’re after the transport types that the RAF flew in the 70s?
Hercules, Belfast, Comet, Brittania, Argosy, Andover, VC10 were the main types. Though only the Herc and VC10 remained after 1976, along with a very few Andovers. The RAF displayed all the types at airshows !