Scrapyard Photos; Any More?

would u guys stop posting these pics??? ;):D
I promised myself not to look here because I knew the sadistic content, but eventually I couldnt resist and now my heart’s bleeding!!! 🙁

Alex

What happened to the very early Neptune nose section that was in the Failsworth scrapyard until the early eighties? It had a gun nose with two cannon IIRC and was ex RAF (I think?).

Cheers

Cees

Can only find two Apollos that wore the roundel, VX220 & VX224. Were there more?
VX220 was previously G-AIYN and was (apparently) broken up at Baginton in 1955.
VX224 was previously G-AMCH – and then my sources run dry.
Could this be G-AMCH/VX224 in its twilight years?

Flood

Nice one Martin. 🙂

Yes the Armstrong Whitworth AW 55 Apollo and instantly spotted by MerlinMagic.

Why it was in RAF livery I do not know.

Mark

😮 😮 😮

Martin

It is an apollo

www.airliners.net/open.file/747155/M/

Great photo of an apollo at the above link.

Cheers,

Jetstream man

I was surprised that nobody picked up on this little beauty in RAF markings.

Perhaps you all know what it is?

Mark

Connie…

Martin

Apollo?

I was surprised that nobody picked up on this little beauty in RAF markings.

Perhaps you all know what it is?

Mark

I went to see the sections in the yard tosee if anything was useful. Unfortunately most was bent and out of shape….besides they wanted £400 at that time.

But what, if anything, is still there ?

As you may be aware, TonyD holds the nose section of Swift F.7 XF113.

You may not be aware this was discovered in a yard nr Frome by Dr Robert Poulter who had is transported to his home nr Bath (along with his Seahawks) in the mid 80’s.

I visited this yard in ’87 and again in ’95, and the rear fuselage and (seperate) centre section of XF113 were still extant.

On my first visit it was still owned by the original family concern, and was full of wing sections, boxed & greased parts, wheels, tyres etc… the old chap even claimed he had TSR2 sections from Boscombe for scrapping !! (The Swift came from Boscombe also)

In ’95 it had become a car breakers, but the site was bigger than the (considerable) amount of cars they had, hence the ‘aeroplane’ parts hadn’t yet been touched or were likely to in the near future.

However, that was then, and now health & safety rules have affected car breakers etc… so questions i’d like to ask is: has anyone else heard of the place or can shed any light on its contents ? As i’ve not seen it mentioned to date.

Cheers….

oh p.s. No Tony isn’t interested in making his Swift whole again !

Dave is correct, apart from the last sentance, I went to see the sections in the yard tosee if anything was useful. Unfortunately most was bent and out of shape….besides they wanted £400 at that time.

Yes Herbert, I know

But they are are so interesting. It only shows what was around relatively recently and what chances have been missed.

Cheers

Cees

Scrapping off the SAAF Spitfire fleet.

A bit before my time. 😉

Perhaps worthy of a caption competition?

Mark

More of these pictures and I´ll get a heartattack! 😮 😮 😮
Herbert

A few from the periphery of Farnborough 1958/9

One of the pleasures of the bicycle is that you really can circumnavigate a complete airfield in a reasonable time.

Here are some shots of Farnborough from the late 1950’s both from the fence and what was just about accessible on the public days.

The Seahawk was one of the Navy formation team. It started to smoke and then dropped out of the formation and went smack into the ground. The pilot was OK and the aircraft by sheer coincidence went straight in on the hard standing at Blackbushe, making the front page of the Mirror or Sketch the next day.

The ‘young man’ standing in front of the Valletta is David Grimsdale. I wonder what happened to him. I haven’t seen him in 40 years. The last ‘sortie’ we did together was to capture the B-17’s, just in at Bovingdon, for the ‘War Lover’.

Mark

😀 😀 😀

I can just see you tackling the Rearwin with a large leafy branch, Melv 😉

Been there, done that.

😀 😀 😀

I can just see you tackling the Rearwin with a large leafy branch, Melv 😉

Caption

Cue Basil Fawlty:

“OK, If you won’t start I’ll thrash you . . .”

Caption: Scrapping the SAAF Spitfire fleet

£1.2m
Chop
£1.1m
Chop
£1.0m
Chop
£900k
Chop
etc
£425 – “Dunnit”

Mark

Perhaps worthy of a caption competition?

Mark

“There – that’s what you get for showing me that red light on short final – silly machine !”

Scrapping off the SAAF Spitfire fleet.

A bit before my time. 😉

Perhaps worthy of a caption competition?

Mark

“You’re only supposed to blow the ****** doors off!” 😀