Tiger Club (The future)
The Tiger Club was always going to be difficult to keep going (as we knew it) and really needed its own airfield to maintain the way it operated.
I for one was against spending money on a fight at Redhill and thought it was better spent being put towards its own home even if that moved it further west or north.
Headcorn was never going to be a permanent solution for many reasons including the fact that Headcorn was fighting its own survival battles itself at the time.
The main TC issues were based on the membership being s-east conditioned rather than looking ahead to when our own airfield and being our own masters would be a better long term position.
It was always going to be difficult leaving Redhill, but a clean break and fresh start on our own would have worked, with the membership adjusting accordingly and new members filling the gap.
The other issue was loosing the Rollason back up that was the backbone of the engineering side of things;but even that could have relocated if we had gone to the right place.
All in all it had a great run and its legacy will always be there, to say it was aviation heaven is an understatement. PP
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