Originally Posted by
Prangster
As a 9/12 year old my favourite place was hugging the 2 strand wire fence that separated Snape's Wood from the Rolls Royce Flight Test Establishment airfield at Hucknall, Dim memory tells me that huddled in a defensive heap on the distant pan lay a mouldering row of flying test beds their duty done, all, no doubt, awaiting the scrap mans cutters. Vague memory suggests that an Ambassaor/Elizabethan and I think an Avro Tudor amongst them. Then I could be wrong! Anyone know the history?
At the time the Vulcan test bed was active before its loss at Syerston so it must be pre that accident.
Shredded memory revived. 'Twas an Ashton not a Tudor