Buried Halifax at Elvington

No she’s all locked up safe from light fingers PP.

The Halifax was perfectly visible yesterday…

An MOD working party has been, reclaiming bits off the Nimrod. Not pikeys don’t worry!

It’s not the pikeys im woried about it’s the so called enthusiasts who will rob and stick the parts on e bay.!

Pleased that things are still in place! 🙂

An MOD working party has been, reclaiming bits off the Nimrod. Not pikeys don’t worry!

Oh yes. Actually quite therapeutic sat on the bomb bay tanks listening to the rain drumming on the roof!

Yep externally the Maid looks fine. One of our chaps thought there may be an aerial or 2 missing but I don’t know the aircraft well enough to say for sure.

Are folk robbing bits off this while it’s parked up?:mad:

Oh yes. Actually quite therapeutic sat on the bomb bay tanks listening to the rain drumming on the roof!

Yep externally the Maid looks fine. One of our chaps thought there may be an aerial or 2 missing but I don’t know the aircraft well enough to say for sure.

Working in the rain = proper British aircraft restoration! 😀

Did the Nimrod still look ‘all there’?

Wasn’t much fun today in the rain. Although a V-bomber makes a nice umbrella!

T/O, you are a bad man! :diablo:
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😀 I know, but not as bad as some would lead you to believe – aircraft (aviation) preservation should be fun!! 😉

T/O, you are a bad man! :diablo:

109- Apparently the bloke built it because he wanted to and he could. Fair play to him. Was dismantled to appear in the static at some little fly in down south, RIAT iirc. Ditto the Hurricane. 109 is about to be bolted back together. Also if anyone’s interested the pink Buccaneer’s getting a repaint…

Mossie- Mr Agar is still plugging away with her, from speaking to him she’s not all that far off…

As to the Halifax issue, all I’ll say is that iirc 536’s outer wings were too corroded to use but the centre section was ok. If you’ve ever seen the faces of the veterans who’ve come to see their old warhorse after nearly 70 years you’d know it was a well worthwhile project. For this reason alone I won’t have a bad word said about it from those who choose to knock the efforts to resurrect what was at the time an extinct species.

And yes the Victor (and the Nimrod) gets lots of love and tlc. It may be chucking it down but I’ll soon be heading across to get my weekly ‘fix’… 🙂

Your opinion only I take it?

Without the centre section of TG536, there would be no Halifax standing there and there would have been no chance for old-Halifax aircrew to relive memories
A bit harsh don’t you think?
But that is just my opinion mind you.
Cheers
Cees

Having spoken at length to many who were”involved” its 100% fact.

they had the chance to make a noise and save TG536(berlin airlift survivor) which had languished on catterick fire dump for years,instead they ripped the wings off intending to use them for their Halifax…

Not a nice post, especially I would think for anyone linked with the Halifax project.
The Hastings is perfectly well represented now with four preserved, three of which spread around this country with two indoors.
I would much rather that the bits of an airframe on an RAF fire dump (and let’s not forget many ended their days on one) went into a rebuild of a family type as sole complete representative of the Halifax bomber.

Your opinion only I take it?

Without the centre section of TG536, there would be no Halifax standing there and there would have been no chance for old-Halifax aircrew to relive memories
A bit harsh don’t you think?
But that is just my opinion mind you.
Cheers
Cees

Well said.

No other comment needed from me.

they had the chance to make a noise and save TG536(berlin airlift survivor) which had languished on catterick fire dump for years,instead they ripped the wings off intending to use them for their Halifax,and in the end didnt,the Halifax at elvington has many sore points and has seen many contributors to its construction be overlooked whilst heaping praise on others,better prospect is the Victor at least its a live aircraft and tended to by a dedicated staff.Final point is TG536 would have made a more fitting aircraft to be preserved given its historical significance.

Your opinion only I take it?

Without the centre section of TG536, there would be no Halifax standing there and there would have been no chance for old-Halifax aircrew to relive memories
A bit harsh don’t you think?
But that is just my opinion mind you.
Cheers
Cees

🙂 Post #6 was only meant to tease Blue_2 hence the :diablo:

The best Handley Page 4 engined heavy is still outside, perfectly viewable 😉

Without a doubt !!!

:confused: When did they get a Hastings? :diablo:

they had the chance to make a noise and save TG536(berlin airlift survivor) which had languished on catterick fire dump for years,instead they ripped the wings off intending to use them for their Halifax,and in the end didnt,the Halifax at elvington has many sore points and has seen many contributors to its construction be overlooked whilst heaping praise on others,better prospect is the Victor at least its a live aircraft and tended to by a dedicated staff.Final point is TG536 would have made a more fitting aircraft to be preserved given its historical significance.

re;

any news regarding the Mosquito? Its a long time since I went to Elvington, and the word was it would eventually taxi.

And how come its in bits? It has wood worm.:D

Its a wooden mock up built by a local chap.

Quite convincing from a distance.

Bruce