Canada’s air force has had to take spare parts from a museum to keep its search-and-rescue aircraft flying,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29224170
Will the RAFM at both Hendon and Cosford be needing to add a drive through spare parts facility soon?
By: David Burke - 17th September 2014 at 13:18
Jack -we have enough hardware in live storage to meet eventualities. The Jaguars are too far removed from flight and of little use.
By: TwinOtter23 - 17th September 2014 at 11:56
You’d be surprised at the number of parts requests that come in from around the world to help keep ‘historic’ airframes airborne – including several jets on the current UK air show circuit! 😉
By: jack windsor - 17th September 2014 at 10:14
thinking bigger will the SOTT lads be putting the Jaguars back together again, as a added option for this M.East option?
By: FLY.BUY - 17th September 2014 at 08:40
A similar thing was happening with the Avro Shackletons in order to keep them in the air for so long. Thank goodness for museums otherwise if all retired aircraft were directly smelted there would be nothing left to keep anything flying.
By: Thunderbird167 - 17th September 2014 at 07:08
Didn’t BA rob a rudder from a Museum after a Concord(e) lost one in flight?
The rudder can from G-BBDG which was held at Filton and used for spares
By: XL189 - 16th September 2014 at 21:41
Didn’t BA rob a rudder from a Museum after a Concord(e) lost one in flight?
By: Junk Collector - 16th September 2014 at 20:53
I was only saying the other day as a joke to someone, probably see the MOD at aerojumbles giving out leaflets asking for parts from collectors. Think I have more Tornado stuff than the RAF do
By: WP840 - 16th September 2014 at 20:41
Pretty sure it’s already happened during Falklands war when all preserved Vulcans had there refuelling probes removed.
Of course! I had forgotten about that. Did anything similar happen during GW1 with the Buccaneers?
By: jeepman - 16th September 2014 at 20:25
Reminds me of the story of the British Army having to buy back 200 Humber Pigs from scrapyards – some as far away as Libya – to refurb at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland
By: Guns80 - 16th September 2014 at 20:22
Pretty sure it’s already happened during Falklands war when all preserved Vulcans had there refuelling probes removed.
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