Read somewhere the VIII was the nicest handling but the urgent need for the improvised IX pushed it onto the back-burner

Surprised Snapper didn’t suggest moving everything to RAF Horsham St Faith! Much better road/rail connections that Duxford, not as far south as Lambeth, Science Museum and Hendon. Handy for the real Ha**ants. Lots of local pie shops

(nothing to do with mutual self- interest 😉 )

I’m not sure why the Bev in general (as opposed to the heap of scrap that was at Hendon) is considered an irrelevance by some here, Transport command ops in the 1950s and 60s must come under Hendon’s remit and they played an important part in Britain’s foreign policy during that period – I don’t see why the ‘less sexy’ aircraft should be pushed to one side all the time.

What would I like to see at Hendon? The Halifax on its own gear! A Buffalo, Whitley and Stirling naturally

I’d like to see a MoD policy where a close eye is kept on certain ‘historic’ service airframes with a view to giving Hendon ‘first dibs’ when they get withdrawn from service – Chinook ‘Bravo November’ springs to mind – OK she’s a HC2 now. Perhaps in later years a dedicated ‘Falklands war’ enclave? – Oh, and a HUDO reconstruction using the back-end of the next Vulcan to be scraped!

And another thing………extend the LT line from Colindale to RAFM Hendon – I’m not getting any younger you know and I can’t afford to pass H******s!

Not the chap of PPRuNe fame?

Welcome!

I think she also mentions a pink pub near the airfield which would be The Three Horseshoes at Scotow I think – used to have a prop on the outside wall and was a watering hole for 262 Sqn during WW2. Someone mentioned that the flying memorabilia and the prop have gone – landlord didn’t see them as relevant! Probably wants to change the place into a fun pub 🙁

Ahh, you mean the PR Mk10?

Gents,
A correction to a statement I made earlier on this thread, info taken from ‘RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War’ by Denis Richards – the AP for the RAF attack by 5GP on Dresden was a stadium near the center of the city. The Americans followed-up with an attack on the marshalling yards, which was sucessful, despite overspill from blind bombing – [apart from the 40 bombers that attacked Prague by mistake*]

*Health warning – taken from Irving’s Destruction of Dresden – as reliable as a rail timetable and in places a bigger work of fiction.

Regards

-nick

From Berlin – The Downfall 1945, Antony Beevorm, Viking press

(This is in the immediate post-war period)

Even civilians, according to another US report, betrayed through their automatic use of propaganda clichés how deeply their thinking had been altered. They would, for example, instinctively refer to allied bombing raids as terrorangriffe (Goebbelss phrase) and not use the ordinary term of luftangriffe, or air attacks. The report described this as residual Nazism. Many civilians would talk with self-pity about Germany’s suffering, especially under the bombing. They fell resentfully silent when reminded that it was the Luftwaffe which had invented mass destruction of cities as a shock tactic.