Thanks for posting the pictures Pully113, it isn’t the BDR training aid I thought it was unfortunately.

I spent a couple of hours in a bit of a nostalgic haze last night looking at the pictures and racking my brains trying to identify ‘stuff’ I was seeing from ‘strange’ angles such as the back of an installed ammo tank. I also managed to carry out all the cockpit checks for an AF/BF and a full post installation engine ground run in my mind. (I probably need to get out more!)

I went to most of the Oktoberfests at Cottesmore during my tour (86-96) but never thought for one minute that the steins would become collectables, so most never survived packing for postings being given to anyone that wanted them – I think I may have one left in the loft somewhere.

I don’t want to hijack the thread any more, so will finish by saying thanks for preserving some true cold war warriors and putting them on display to be reminisced about by people like me.

That GR1 Front Cockpit Section has got me intrigued, is it an ex Battle Damage Repair Training Aid? If it is, then one of the scab patches may have been done on a course I did many moons ago (Riggers did the scab, whilst we repaired a jetpipe with a plate of mild steel and the stuff you used to seal around coal fires).

And just to enhance my sad anorak status – is that a TTTE tea mug I see at the back of the trailer?

Interesting to see the remnants of the old Ground Equipment Yellow peeping through the green on the second picture. This of course evolved into yellow stripes on the green.

I have spent many a long winter hour on Ground Running pans risking carbon monoxide poisoning trying to stay warm by directing the exhaust up using a chock to supplement the meagre output of the cooling louvres. (The later 48KVA was far better as it has two big outletss for the cooling air to give you a much better warm and reducing your deafness risk somewhat).

Second from top Smiths Autopilot – Fokker 28?

No idea what the top one is and the bottom one is weapons control panel probably fast jet with 2 pylons on each wing plus one on the centreline and fitted with two guns. I initially thought it was Britiish?

Top picture. Fuel Management for four engines, a Fin tank, Pods and HDU – VC10 Tanker?

[QUOTE=robdd1;1992140]Picking up anything that might be tornado related – one odd thing is this – any ideas?

Has 30mu marked on it – when arrives I shall get some numbers

It is a Hydraulic contents skin gauge and lived behind perspex windows above the SPS bays. These analogue type were notoriously unreliable and were replaced in about 1989/1990 I think, with a red digital LED version.

The mod programme was one of the very very few times I saw politics rear its ugly head on TTTE.

Rowland White’s Storm Front. It combines the air (delivery) and land (receiving) aspects of offensive air support in the face of true adversity and is a subject quite close to my heart.

The PR9 was never used for sniffer missions as far as I am aware. Once the Victors/Vulcans stopped doing it pods were fitted to VC10s. For example:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/05/30/uk-korea-north-britain-idUKTRE54T0YM20090530

There is a lot more info on here about that role