I seem to remember that when the main runway was being repaved in the late 1960īs or early 1070īs the company Dove (G-ARBE) used a reinforced grass runway to allow operations to other HSA factories to continue.
The Capper Pass chimney was a major mistake. Not only did it stop the use of Brough but it proved to be a health problem for local residents. Also, had the runway been extended, it would have put Brough in to a much better position to take on extra work with test flying from the Brough runway when British Aerospace was created in the 1970īs. When I worked at Brough in the days of the Buccaneer contracts, there were over 5,000 people emplyed at Brough. It is now coming down to a couple of hundred.