Loki: no there wasn't a 'catapult' test that day, but they were firing something into the arrestor barrier on the north side using a rocket powered rig!
I'm not sure if it was that visit or an earlier one, but I remember seeing the Hunting H126 leaving on the back of a lorry crossing the 08 undershoot. I think I saw it a few years later at Topcliffe, where they also had a couple of Avro 707s and the Short SB5. I think they were all moved to Cosford when Topcliffe closed.
Edit- Memory playing up; thinking back, I went to Topcliffe in '71, long before I went to Bedford, so the '126 can't have been there! (The '707s and the SB5 definitely were though)
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