Mornin’ all,
I was speaking to one of the test pilots of this interesting beast on wednesday. Nice to fly, basically a Comet with Spey engines and a big nose! I remember it was cut up but did the cockpit/nose survive?
Does anyone have any pics of the a/c when it was about?
Cheers,
J man
By: dhfan - 22nd October 2005 at 00:52
I was thinking of the Nimrod AEW.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 21st October 2005 at 21:31
Here is XW626 on approach at Boscombe Down in April 1974 before the AEW nose was fitted and at Farnborough in September 1978. It made its last flight on 28th August 1981 to Bedford, where it was eventually scrapped. It was originally G-APDS with BOAC.
By: Bruce - 21st October 2005 at 13:05
XW626 was indeed scrapped at Bedford – we have the instrument panels, and some other parts, including the nose doors!
By: J31/32 - 21st October 2005 at 12:31
I’m referring to the Comet testbed.
J man
By: David Burke - 21st October 2005 at 10:00
Can you clarify which machine you are talking about! The Comet AEW testbed was scrapped at RAE Bedford early 1990’s and I think the nose didn’t
survive. There are a couple of Nimrod AEW noses in existance.
By: dhfan - 21st October 2005 at 09:24
…and a big tail.
I think there was a previous thread saying the nose had survived. IIRC there was a pic showing it without the radome.
Somewhere I’ve got some pics I took at a Hatfield display many years ago. I can’t remember offhand if they were any good, or where they are.
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