A great days flying with friends a first in a long time, we flew back to Sandown to find a field with no radio and no welcome, a landing fee and a cupper in the portacabin was in stark contrast to Jazz in "The Aviator bar" and a great lunch surrounded by hundreds of flyers.
It seems if the locals are to be believed that the subdivition of the land and runway between Glen Collins and a company called Wharflands in part owned by David Mellor means that effectivly this airfield is missing its heart. That heart that Dick Steel had given it over the last 5 years now lies broken.
Did "The Aviator" have an accident, when it burnt to the ground? or was that a mishap, know to a few? We will never know for sure, but one thing that happened that night, the heart of Sandown airfield died. 
