Douglas AD-4N Skyrider 124156, owned and operated by Jimmie MacMillan of Breckenridge, Texas. Photograph by MICHAEL O'LEARY

Avro Vulcan B.2 XM655, based at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford and owned by businessman Roy Jacobsen, who hopes to keep it flying. Photograph by ROGER WRIGHT.

Halifax C.Mk 8 G-AIZO shortly before the accident.

The morning after. G-AIZO lies in a field at Studham, reduced to component sections: a familiar characteristic of the Halifax after sudden and violent contact with the ground.