Blimey, camping on a UK airfield at end of Feb begining of March.
Talk about ships of oak and men of iron.
This is going to be aeroplanes of wood and fabric (and aluminium) and men and women of iron.
Still pray for good weather and give Hucknall a great send off.
One year short of it's 100th birthday.
One thing I didn't know about Hucknall till recently was that the mile and a quarter runway was built long after the war, probably in the mid fifties. As a child I was always baffled when told how the Luftwaffe searched for Hucknall airfield but failed to find it and bomb it. How could they miss that huge runway?
Now I know, it wasn't there!!!.
I remember the assymetric Vickers VC10 conversion carried out there with two Conways being opposed by a single RB211.
Hucknall was also the graveyard for most of the RAF's Short Belfast transports.
They were flown in for recovery of the engines and then scrapped on site.
I think the last major project at Hucknall was to do with re-engineing the Phantom with Rolls Royce Spey engines.
It was always Royces not Rolls.
Last edited by ericferret; 9th Feb 2015 at 17:34.