The Gnat Display Team is owned and operated by Heritage Aircraft Limited, the trading arm of The Heritage Aircraft Trust, a registered UK charity (no. 1134981)
North Weald Airfield, London
Joined December 2010
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A look back to this fantastic moment a week ago - the #RedArrows sharing the skies with a classic Folland Gnat jet to help launch the team’s 60th diamond season display calendar.
📸 Cpl Phil Dye
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The RAF is trying to remove the grave of Guy Gibson's dog from Scampton, but are content for the Home Office to house illegal migrants there, threatening our £300-million regeneration plan for the site.
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West Lindsey District Council has now applied for judicial review of the proposal to house illegal migrants at Scampton. They have my full support.
It is clear that the best future for Scampton and Lincolnshire is the £300 million regeneration deal we have spent years crafting.
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This is absolutely right in every detail. The Government are custodians of our culture - of our arts and our music and our institutions. They have a duty to protect and enhance them for future generations - not to treat them as collateral damage in a pathetic culture war.
Simon Rattle is right: Britain is becoming a cultural desert – and that’s a political choice | Martin Kettle theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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On the immigration bill: The Home Sec claims to be going ahead with RAF Scampton because it will be "appropriate, sustainable, and cost effective".
Nonsense: it'll cost *at least £18.2mn* more than status quo for a year which is all the law allows: 🧵
'We will be progressing with RAF Scampton'
Home Secretary Suella Braveman told #BBCBreakfast the Government will go ahead with plans to use the former home of the Dambusters Squadron to house up to 2,000 asylum seekers
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li…
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RE: RAF Scampton
Read this thread to see the danger of the Govt's arguments: they bypassing local planning for inhumane camps at mil bases on basis it's an "emergency"
What's the emergency you ask? *Conservative failures at the Home Office* replies the Government lawyer...
The High Court battle is underway over govt attempt to turn RAF Wethersfield into a camp for 1,700 asylum seekers
The Home Office is arguing that it has the power to decide what constitutes an "emergency" allowing it to bypass normal planning permission
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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Dr Beeching and why we should save RAF Scampton
.@militaryhistori’s family made its fortune producing bricks to line the many bridges and tunnels of this 200-mile network, but “Newcastle’s station was an early and inevitable victim” of the Beeching cuts thecritic.co.uk/Beechings-br…
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Once the home to six one seven
Gibson's little piece of heaven
Front line now in culture wars
Jenrick laying down the laws
Braver men than Braverman
Chastise those who think they can
Cancel Eder, Möhne, Sorpe
Heritage to ragged pauper
@James1940
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Good news - Legal action being taken against the Govt about their plans for Scampton. The fight back begins!!@WeHaveWaysPod – at South West, England
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This evening I had a very useful planning meeting with Scampton Parish Council, Lincolnshire County Councillor, West Lindsey District Councillor, and officials, to discuss our legal moves to stop the perverse decision by the Home Office to house illegal migrants at RAF Scampton.
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SCAMPTON - what the heck? So, there’s a brilliant plan in place that promises £300 million to the site, 1,000 jobs, safeguards Scampton’s heritage, converts the Officers’ Mess into a hotel and continues the airfield’s aviation story. Please RT. @WeHaveWaysPod Shout loud, folks!
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Sacrilege! My piece on why the decision to turn Scampton, the home of the Dambusters, into an asylum seekers' detention centre is not only historical vandalism, but a disaster for the local economy that flies in the face of the Govt's levelling up agenda: dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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SAVE SCAMPTON’s FUTURE! Can I urge people a second time to sign this petition? It’s important! change.org/p/stop-raf-scampt… – at South West, England
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An Open Letter to @SuellaBraverman - signed by 40 historians and interested persons. SAVE SCAMPTON! Pls RT, people! @ukhomeoffice @RobertJenrick @HE_ChiefExec – at South West, England
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FATE OF SCAMPTON - Pls RT! So, it's not good news, having talked to West Lindsey District Council this morning. They're expecting an announcement from the @ukhomeoffice on Monday. They urge everyone to do what can, such as sign this petition: chng.it/Bbb2xbwH
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Happy memories of a @GnatDisplayTeam 3-ship display from Waddington Airshow 2014.
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My father leading 9 Lightning’s and 7 Red Arrows Gnats 1965 - I think but have never confirmed it this is the very first picture of the newly formed Red Arrows @RAFRed1 @rafredarrows @RoyalAirForce @RAFScampton @RAFValleyStnCdr @GnatDisplayTeam @EngElecLighting
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A trip out for a couple of hours today, Monday 22nd June 2020, to North Weald & I was very fortunate to see Aero L-29 Delfin G-BYCT was being prepared for departure.
She's gone to St.Athan for her annual !
It was great to hear Jet Noise at North Weald again :-)
@GnatDisplayTeam
