WK163

Thinking about it now i think you could be correct . when WK163 as overflown in the past you can hear those twin avons for a good while. today it was a short swoooosh and gone. the sound of a Vampire at speed i guess.
is the Vampire due down at Duxford this weekend.?

Thank you Scorpion. must have been another of Coventrys classics jets.

a trip to Specsavers i guess.:D

Might possibly have been Vampire G-HELV…..just a teeny weenie bit smaller than WK163 but she’s the only jet out of coventry that I know has flown in the past few days

Thank you Scorpion. must have been another of Coventrys classics jets.

a trip to Specsavers i guess.:D

Definately not WK163 as she is still awaiting a new engine.

Engine runs before Christmas, flying next year.

Excellent news would you be able to tell us when it’s first flight will be once you know ?

Any chance of it flying side-by-side with the new T.4?

Realy Tom?

Engine runs before Christmas, flying next year.

Tom.

Does anyone know when WK163 will be back in the air ?

I reckon as soon as the Avons pass muster within the new “lifetime” rules. AACF consider it will fly next season.

Spoke to Malcolm, the chap looking after the Canberra at MAM and asked him, and he said it was lack of spares (something along those lines, was a few months back) preventing it from returning to the air, although now they have the trainer it might change if they get some spares with that