Hatfield

Informer

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Oct 12, 2002, 9:56:17 AM10/12/02

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Anyone paid a visit to BAE Hatfield lately? I haven't been over there for a
few months now and found it hard to recognise the place when I was there
last week. The airfield has been opened up to the general public with new
roads, offices and housing all either built or still under construction.
The old British Airways Trident seems to have been finally broken up, as
there was no sign of it. The only reminders that this was once an airfield
is one assembly hall that also contains the control tower. Everything else
including all aprons, taxiways and the runway have gone. All very sad!!

rod

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Oct 12, 2002, 10:32:50 AM10/12/02

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On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:56:17 +0100, "Informer" <no....@talk21.com>
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> All very sad!!

I would agree. History is too readily disregarded.

Rod
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Oct 13, 2002, 11:22:00 AM10/13/02

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"rod" <rod02...@clara.co.uk> wrote in message

> > All very sad!!
>
> I would agree. History is too readily disregarded.
>

Home of the Mosquito, DH Comet, Trident and in more recent times the 146.

I thought the British Airways Trident was going to be preserved although it
did look like it was in a state the last time I saw it. . There was also a
Dove parked up by the Trident, is that aircraft still around?

Mac

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Oct 13, 2002, 2:33:37 PM10/13/02

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The Trident was broken up some weeks back thanks to the lovely
department called Arlington who were responsible for selling the
airfield in the first place. The Mosquito Museum, could not afford to
have it moved, nor did they apparently have the space. Why could they
not have erected it onto one of the many roundabouts, or out the front
of the new industrial complex, I do not know !!

All I know is that it is criminal what they have done to the birth
place of British Aviation & the jet ! So much for the talk of an
aviation museum ? This place is an eye sore & just to think that just
ten years ago, it was rivalling Luton on the business aircraft front.
I remember even seeing Tornado's, Hawk's & the odd U-2 Spyplane
gracing the skies over the airport, not to mention the yearly De
Havilland fly in !

Now, not even Steven Speilburg can use it !

dave D

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Oct 13, 2002, 11:44:49 PM10/13/02

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"Mac" <dou...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> The Trident was broken up some weeks back thanks to the lovely
> department called Arlington who were responsible for selling the
> airfield in the first place.

Anyone know why the Trident was flown back into Hatfield in the first place
all those years ago?

Not the Karl Orff

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Oct 16, 2002, 1:10:53 PM10/16/02

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In article <jjagquoucln54pft7...@4ax.com>,
rod <rod02...@clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:56:17 +0100, "Informer" <no....@talk21.com>
> blurted out
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> > All very sad!!
>
> I would agree. History is too readily disregarded.

the new britain, where you have to have everything paid for. Apparently
nobody (or not enough people) thought preserving the Trident was worth
paying for.

Informer

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Oct 16, 2002, 3:04:17 PM10/16/02

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"Not the Karl Orff"

> the new britain, where you have to have everything paid for. Apparently
> nobody (or not enough people) thought preserving the Trident was worth
> paying for.

If anyone wants me to send them a photo as an e-mail attachment of the
Trident looking a little grubby taken at Hatfield in January 2000 then
e-mail me at je...@nagrom.fsnet.co.ukSPAM but removing the word SPAM from the
address.