My Old Man helped build Wellingtons at Brooklands then Smith's Lawn [Pressurised Wimpeys I think] and dammit I can no longer prise [very reluctantly from him] any info about Vickers/Barnes Wallis/Wellingtons/Warwicks and Windsor Prototypes. It took nearly 35 years to find out he was saved from injury by being in between two massive American lathes when bombs were dropped one lunchtime.
I would love to see a Wellington airborne again, replica notwithstanding.
I remember being in the garden of our house in the Avenue Sunbury on Thames and seeing a very low flyby of a Wellington with very little canvas aft of the Port wing trailing edge and some strips trailing behind the tailplane fluttering in the breeze. Heading for Heston or Feltham Air Park I expect. About 1943 Late Spring.
Exciting times for young lads back then.