Slipper section was used in the 1980’s, Hawks I think, until the fun Police cottoned on…..

A bit Blackhawkish?

I went up there in the early 1990s, the center section was visible then, I think most of the wing is intact too. Good museum with some cold war Russian stuff ‘acquired’ by JG9’s engineering officer when the wall fell (got some photos of the Migs somewhere)

The swept wing myth keeps coming up when talking about the 262, according to at least one source the only reason the 262 had swept wings was to counter a severe c of g problem. (Me 262 Stormbird Rising -Hugh Morgan) They just got lucky with that one

which aircraft turned better? I’d rather get in a turning fight in one of Gloucester’s finest. Which one got hacked down at low speed when trying to land due to engine spool rates?

25 hours running time for the engines wasn’t exactly fantastic either.

We tend to over-rate Axis equipment for some unknown reason, an example being all the talk of Luftwaffe ’46 equipment and how superior it would have been without considering what the Allies would have had by then.

I thought that was 4 hangar with Pat ‘the Clap’

I a not unrelated development I see ‘Get some in’ is available on DVD – well it always reminded me of Swinderby…..

Just a slight snag with my cunning plan, when BAe were upgrading the Nimrods they complained that the wings were virtually bespoke made for each airframe meaning it wouldn’t be a simple off/on job, I suspect the Comet would be the same 🙁

Remind me again who built all the armaments of war in Nazi Germany, could it have been the ‘innocent civilians?’ Who supported and worked on the elimination of Jews, Gypsies etc?

Innocent civilians? No such thing in a n industralised World War