MAM NF14 WS838 gets a revamp!

Exactly! The boot is where the long ladder will be carried so the Incursion Team can actually get up to the roof-slung NF.14

:rolleyes:

Who said you were invited anyway Kev :diablo:

How can I be in the boot with Granny, when it’s a bicycle?

Exactly! The boot is where the long ladder will be carried so the Incursion Team can actually get up to the roof-slung NF.14

:rolleyes:

Sorry mate, you’d be in the boot with Granny!! 😀

How can I be in the boot with Granny, when it’s a bicycle?? 😉

TUT 😀

Kev

lol 😀 😀

I’d have to have the window seat though :p :p
Kev 🙂

Sorry mate, you’d be in the boot with Granny!! 😀

lol 😀 😀

I’d have to have the window seat though :p :p
Kev 🙂

….they’d have to refurbish the team’s transport bicycle first and there’s a slight division as to the proper colours it should be in.

and the usual argument as to who’s going to sit where :p

Roger Smith.

Could you not replace the glass with modern product?

Not really. Firstly, canopies are not made out of glass. Secondly, getting one in a ‘modern’ product is, I suggest, not as viable an option as sourcing a ‘real’ one.

Maybe, one dark night in the depths of winter MAM’s Special Incursion Team can slip into Cosford and secure the one from their NF.14. I think such an ‘Op’ would be mountable except, they’d have to refurbish the team’s transport bicycle first and there’s a slight division as to the proper colours it should be in.

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Here here………..

It is not just the airframes which make MAM special. Last year my first visit was a joy because the staff and volunteers actually were chatty and informative. The enthusiasm bubbles over ,it is such a shame that more museums no longer offer guides.

Cheers for that Scotavia. 🙂

We do ‘try’ to be like that, but I think the world ‘try’ is wrong because it’s not hard.
Being enthusiatic, polite and welcoming to your vistitors is really easy and enjoyable, so really there is no excuse not to be, in my opinion. 🙂

Thanks again for your nice words…….hopefully see you soon.

Kev

Could you not replace the glass with modern product?

Cost my friend…..cost……….I know what you mean though.

Could you not replace the glass with modern product?

MAM magic

It is not just the airframes which make MAM special. Last year my first visit was a joy because the staff and volunteers actually were chatty and informative. The enthusiasm bubbles over ,it is such a shame that more museums no longer offer guides.

Some more dodgy phone pics from me too!! 😀

Nice evening tonight, had a group of Scout’s come and pay us a visit.
A very bright bunch they were too, one asked about propeller pitch on the Gannet, which I was most impressed with.

Also, they didn’t fall for the line, that the contents of the Vixen radome were in case the aircrew wanted to watch ‘Sky’, while on long flights 😉 😀 .(well it made ’em laugh).

Anyway a lovely evening, in which a group of enthusiastic lads hopefully left with some great memories and some knowledge of our aviation heritage. 🙂

Take care all,

Kev

Could you not remove the glass and replace it completely?

Believe you me Pete, it is an option we have thought of but would be quite expensive.

Another canopy is the best option but they are like rocking horse s**t!

Could you not remove the glass and replace it completely?

Wow she looks great! is there any efforts to refinish the canopy sometime down the road?

Unfortunatly the canopy is beyond the museums volunteers as it is the layers between the canopy that have faded and to remove them we will need to take it apart so, no, I’m afraid not. Mores the pity 🙁

Here’s the last pictures of WS838

I see that there appears to be a GPU parked by the nose of the Argosy, can the aircraft still be powered up?

I got the bypass kit in the shed, if you want to unfeather the props and put them back in to ground fine position.

Thanks for your input LEsB I was going by the pic where they seem to be painting over the exhaust staining?

Fan-bloody-tastic. I can think of quite a few museums that could learn a lot from MAM. You guys have obviously got your paint skills down to a fine art – and outdoors too! The aircraft look wonderful.

See you in August 🙂

Roy.

A beautiful job on the Meteor, many congratulations. As has already been mentioned, it’s a shame about the state of the canopy, not to take anything away from all your hard work.