Posted on behalf of Classic Flight:
Nimrod XV232 – Expected at Coventry late morning on Tuesday May 11
The most accurate information we currently have to hand indicates that the Classic Flight’s Nimrod will be arriving at AIRBASE, Coventry late morning on Tuesday May 11.
Exact details are still to be confirmed by the MoD but to the best of our knowledge the aircraft is on schedule for delivery. However, the risk of volcanic ash closing Scottish airspace remains a possibility and the delivery can, obviously, not be guaranteed.
Members of the public wanting to see XV232 make her final landing are welcome to visit AIRBASE. Other aircraft from the Classic Flight will be on display and it is hoped that several will fly during the day. It is also our hope that the DC-6 may conduct engine runs (or even taxi).
The AIRBASE visitor centre remains ‘work-in-progress’ with an anticipated opening date of May 29. Therefore access to the AIRBASE hangar will be limited.
Admission on May 11 will be £5 per person but visitors will be issued with a voucher entitling them to a £3 discount on admission to AIRBASE during the opening weekend (May 29-31). Members of the Classic Flight Club will be admitted free of charge.
Further information will be published on http://www.classicflight.com and http://www.classicflightclub.com as and when we receive it.
By: Blue_2 - 28th October 2010 at 13:42
I have to admit the ‘rod is a pleasantly noisy beastie. Especially when you’re pretty close to the runway as it winds up to full pelt for a fast taxy! But not as pleasantly noisy as a Victor… 😉
By: richw_82 - 28th October 2010 at 12:04
Shush you!
Our little crew are all working really hard on 963. She’ll be ready in her own time; then we’ll see whether she can match the Nimrod for noise making.
By: Nashio966 - 28th October 2010 at 11:42
Definitely 🙂 Thanks for that Roger! Glad to hear she shook the place to bits :diablo:
Richard 963 should be chasing her you know :diablo:
By: richw_82 - 28th October 2010 at 10:30
That’s great to hear that she started! Awesome stuff.
By: RPSmith - 28th October 2010 at 10:20
Ben, when I was there last Thursday (21st Oct) RAF engineers were due along with a ‘driver’.
Someone must have turned up as it did run later that day (after I had gone 🙁 ) despite the discovery of the no. 3 engine FOD guard being the incorrect type. The flaps were operated during the run.
I am told that the engines were started twice on the Sunday. Apparently, to those not used to them, they are bl**dy noisy.
Roger Smith.
By: Nashio966 - 28th October 2010 at 03:05
Just wondering…
Did XV232 start? I havent heard anything from anyone and nothing else posted on here? The CF website said that she would be started last weekend?
By: Chipmunk Carol - 14th May 2010 at 21:21
Janie, what’s the reg of your Chippie please?
Roger Smith.
G-BBND, displaying WD286. She is easily distinguishable from other Chipmunks inasmuch as she is the only one with a yellow spinner.
By: keithnewsome - 14th May 2010 at 20:44
Roger. Please feel free to use the photo, nice if it gets a few laughs !
Keith.
By: Blue_2 - 14th May 2010 at 10:19
shall we just say from left to right, Couger, Merlin, Maverick & Goose?
Nice! At least I don’t have to live with being Goose!:D:D:D
By: RPSmith - 14th May 2010 at 09:29
……..BTW, you might want to have a word with the ground marshaller in Keiths shot, looks like he relieved himself against ….
LOL – Keith, mind if I post that pic onto Classic Flight’s GST (volunteer’s) Forum? It would create more mirth I reckon :diablo:
Janie, what’s the reg of your Chippie please?
Roger Smith.
By: Nashio966 - 13th May 2010 at 21:39
Left to right
Blue_2 – Keithnewsome – nashio966 – richw_82
🙂
By: alanl - 13th May 2010 at 21:38
I was there Ben,but didn’t get chance to walk over to the Shack and say hello!
By: BSG-75 - 13th May 2010 at 21:34
Really good meeting fellow forumites aswel, nice pics there Keith, especially the landing shot.
!
So who is who then? I know Ben from his facebook mug shots, or shall we just say from left to right, Couger, Merlin, Maverick & Goose?
By: pagen01 - 13th May 2010 at 21:12
Forgive me overhearing you aswel, but I think the aircraft type you were trying to remember may have been Neptune?!:p
By: Chipmunk Carol - 13th May 2010 at 21:11
Did anyone else spot the tri-motor Avro de Havilland Hybrid experimental?
By: Nashio966 - 13th May 2010 at 21:11
You are a gimp! How amusing! 😉 I did notice an ‘unsociable git’ at MAM contorting himself around the place.
:D:D:D:D
By: Chipmunk Carol - 13th May 2010 at 21:08
You are a gimp! How amusing! 😉 I did notice an ‘unsociable git’ at MAM contorting himself around the place.
By: pagen01 - 13th May 2010 at 21:00
Hi Janie, I didn’t recognise you (but did wonder!), I must apologise, but I was the gimp taking all sorts of funny angles at Coventry and at the Midland Air Museum where I think you went afterwards? I was trying to cram alot into not very much time, so may have come across as an unsociable git!
BTW, you might want to have a word with the ground marshaller in Keiths shot, looks like he relieved himself against ….
By: Chipmunk Carol - 13th May 2010 at 20:59
Oh gosh, please don’t inflate my ego. I’ll become a menace.
By: Blue_2 - 13th May 2010 at 20:55
You’re welcome Janie, really nice looking chippie. Happy memories of them from my days as a Cadet 🙂
Only shot I got from my perch on the Shack, not great sorry:(
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