F4 and eggbeaters – Air & Ground 2-Day Auction

JB,
Quite. That one Sea King 4 airframe saw more combat than the RAF’s entire Phantom, Lightning and Tornado F3 force put together…

ITAR is an interesting point. I doubt the Westland built Mk4 appears on the USML. The F4 is more interesting as it is one of the reasons that ITAR is enforced with such Draconian enthusiasm – ie to prevent the flow of supplies to Iran – I wonder who has the ‘End User Certificate’? Of course, common sense might have broken out and it’s been seen in effect as scrap metal. The F4 was also subject to the CFE treaty.

“Eggbeaters”…what is this…1949?

There will be little, if anything, about the helicopters that is both ‘American’ and not already on the open, international (and civil) market.

The Toom has had the wings crudely sawn off, as noted above, so is precious little use as a weapon. It also has no engines (but they were British anyway). As for the systems, and assuming that tarpaulin is not hiding a multitude of empty equipment bays, there is unlikely to be anything that isn’t either of British design and manufacture, or fitted to the Phantoms the Americans have themselves sold in perfect working order to an end-user they now regard as being slightly dodgy.

But then that’s me being logical. Logic isn’t always the first thing on the agenda when discussing such matters.

So if it’s not a silly question, how do they manage to do this with out infringing ITAR regulations?

Before you ask…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations

Anne

that is heartbreaking,most of those HAS mk3 were in service this time last year, i know cos i was working them, i know its only metal but you do put an awful lot of effort into them and get a bit attached( i do anyway):(

Its not preserved ! It looks like its been crudely dismantled with a Stihl saw ! To think that the Yorkshire Air Museum campaigned for years to get a Leeming Phantom and here we have one of the very same
machines hacked so it can make a road journey in the quickest way with no regard as to how it would ever go back together – shamefull!

looks like the wings are cut off?

I’m surprised you can tell, it looks like a load of photos of something hidden under a tarpaulin…bizarre.
I wonder what is different about this Phantom, I seem to recall Hanningfield Metals being forced to break all theirs up. It’s great to see another one preserved, well, if we could see it.

Pete

Come on chaps, sharpen up!

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?127067-Air-amp-Ground-2-Day-Auction

some modern day bomb ( Engine) trolleys as such there too

http://www.malcolmharrison.co.uk/SaleStockPlant.aspx?Sale=323&category=Ground+Equipment

looks like the wings are cut off?

F4 anyone?

Interesting auction up in Shropshire. Have we come across this before?

Moggy

http://www.malcolmharrison.co.uk/StockDetailPlant.aspx?lot=0&regno=AG1-4&sale=323