I flew over Woodford some years ago. I told controller in atc we needed to fly over and take pictures of the airfield. He asked why. I think i let cat out of the bag when i said, it's up for sale....
There's an episode of the 1960s TV series "The Saint" in which a Hawker Kestrel (Harrier) is stolen. One scene was filmed on the wing of this Avro because the Kestrel wasn't available.
O i like that!! very limited colour footage of it flying and the video looking at the control surfaces puts to bed questions we had over a pod on the front egde of the tail. Good find!!
Yes, I love how the early attempts at naming things are so often right and so often wrong. A really good example of this is the Mother of All Demos ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yJDv-zdhzMY.html
@@marcbiff2192 My conspiracy theory is that UK aerospace at the time was leading US in developement and innovation. I feel there was some "influence" from them. It seems the UK Govt at the time seems just reduced and closed the industry overnight. Pitty
