Scrapyard Photos; Any More?

wow was anything from this lot salvaged? I would guess the wheels are hornet…

Here are some pics I took last year. Remains are of a Mosquito, but can anyone confirm if the wheels are too? They look similar to Hornet wheels to me (unless both aircraft hadthe same type?)

Thanks.

Ah thanks, I understand where it was now. Somewhat irritating to have missed it given that I live not more than 10 miles away from Lasham now.

Exactly where at Lasham was the scrap yard?

Coming from Basingstoke on the Alton road turn left to the gliding centre & then when the gliding entrance is on your right the Staravia yard/hanger was in the field on the left before the first road on the left. No sign of it now, they even dug up the hard standing.

Exactly where at Lasham was the scrap yard?

Someone asked for pictures of Lasham? Try these.

http://wv838.com/Lasham

Breaks my heart 🙁

TSR2 was never up for rebirth

Having seen a record of a supposedly serious approach to our goverment of the time between 1979-81, i can state categorically that a very well argued case for a resurrection of the TSR2 project, including everything from budget forecasts to re-manufacture jigs,and the use of then existing suitable engines in an existing airframe for initial ground trials, by an extremely well respected team, including certain test pilot, never got past a cursory glance by our then Defence Minister Mr Pym.
Infact if memory serves me right it never got as far as him, he got one of his under secretaries to deal with the approach.

Hi all,

Fantastic thread and heartbreaking. I was at Gutersloh 80 to 83, there were very strong rumours of a large pit of scrapped WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft situated at the rear of the 4 Sqn HAS site. It had been partly uncovered by the contractors when they built the HASs and rapidly back filled again! The Goering Room with the bending beams in the Officer’s Mess proudly displayed a pair of aircraft machine guns on the wall above the stairs that were again rumoured to come from this location. I was posted back to Waddo in 83 to 86 and watched helplessly as the derelict Vulcans were JCB’d on Charlie dispersal, I used to go out in the Rover on nights to go and have a look see how many were left, very sad times. I did manage to rescue a couple of triangular panels from behind the cockpit of a Hunter on the Cottesmore dump for the East Mids T’Bird in the mid nineties though.

MAISO

One or two

Hi all, It’s my first attempt at attaching files, so bear with me if I make a mess of it! They’re not quite from the same era as and of the previous ones, but here’s a few I took in 2004, no prizes for guessing the location!

Fair point

As above David, I only remember this because I believe the government looked (all be it very briefly) at ressurecting the project in the early 80’s, one of the problems was the lack of al the jigs etc, remembered hearing something about them being buried and forgotten about. Out of interest I believe that several of the boxes from the avionics suite were hidden away at the time of scrapping anly to be discovered recently and installed in Cosford’s example of the aircraft! It’s funny the stories you hear in the RAF!

Peppermint – Sounds a good story but I suspect that the manufacturing equipment for the TSR2 could either be used for other construction -scrapped or sold to interested parties. Seems a bit extreme to bury it when most of the TSR2 parts ended up in scrapyards or on the ranges.

TSR2

Hello to one and all. Enjoyed the thread so far! Unfortunately I don’t have many photos of aircraft that are not long for this earth. I did however hear rumours that alot of the manufacturing equipment for the doomed TSR2 project was burried in a quarry in Surry somehwere, can anyone confirm or deny this?!?

Cumbria quarry

Well I’d love to see them, Steve, if there’s any way you can bring all the loose ends together. And judging by the views this thread is scoring, many others would enjoy them too!

I wish I’d taken more when I had the opportunity, even tho’ I was on the scene long after the end of the mega-scrap era.

Meanwhile, here’s another one. Not a scrapyard this time but proving that there IS still stuff buried in the ground. This is the famous quarry in Cumbria, not that many years ago. There was plenty of Albemarle structure around, as well as Tiger Moth and other stuff.

No excuses for getting this one back up again.

According to the thread there was a return visit planned to this quarry where still a lot of aircraft remains must lie. Any news on that?

Cheers

Cees

More on the Hawker Osprey in Swedish AF service can be found here: http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Spaning/208S9.htm

Incidentally, Osprey s/n 403 was registered on 14 February 1947 as SE-AYR. She was damaged at Lake Saltoluokta in the far north of Sweden on 11 September 1948, and abandoned. The registration was cancelled on 6 December 1950. Mark12s photos of -AYR were taken in 1985, when she was finally recovered.

Regards,

Jan

Thanks Jan…and Guy Black has confirmed this morning that the photos are of the Swedish Osprey.

Mark

More on the Hawker Osprey in Swedish AF service can be found here: http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Spaning/208S9.htm

Incidentally, Osprey s/n 403 was registered on 14 February 1947 as SE-AYR. She was damaged at Lake Saltoluokta in the far north of Sweden on 11 September 1948, and abandoned. The registration was cancelled on 6 December 1950. Mark12s photos of -AYR were taken in 1985, when she was finally recovered.

Regards,

Jan

Abingdon 91, scap carnage

I was just thinking back to when I was an air cadet flying out of Abingdon one summer camp.

I remember at one point we walked over to where there were masses of Nimrods and Vulcans parked up. Had plenty of fun wandering round out and in them.

I saw that pic of the scrap carnage! – cant have been too long after my visit.
Terrible shame, but then again those old birds really were huge. Not too many places you can park em.

That’s more like it.

That control bellcrank and the four tubes converging and supporting of diameter various are a perfect match. 🙂

Mark

I dunno….you didnt believe me!!! 😉

Is this any use? Part of a shot of an Osprey by Charles Brown.

Best wishes
Steve P

That’s more like it.

That control bellcrank and the four tubes converging and supporting of diameter various are a perfect match. 🙂

Mark

Is this any use? Part of a shot of an Osprey by Charles Brown.

Best wishes
Steve P

I.D. parade

Interesting developments.

Try as I may, I could not get the the required number of matching points on NZ Vincent skeleton shots and could see external variations in the marks of Vildebeest that might account for mis-match.

The nearest I could get was the Hawker Hedgehog.

So perhaps it is indeed a/the Swedish Osprey.

Thank you one and all.

Mark