Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Tony

Is the collection open all year round ? Due to shift working I could only visit the collection on a Monday or Tuesday, and last visited about 20 years ago ?

I remember it well. I was working in Lossies armoury when it happened.
As I was resposible for looking after all the weapons AP’s in the building, my boss asked me if There were any covering crashed Shackletons. Speculation at the time was that it had just made an emergency landing.

Unfortunately I was soon able to tell him how serious it was having listened to the news on the radio. I well remember the sense of shock that travelled around Lossie when the news broke.

I’ve had a warning email saying someone tried to log in today using my details. have now changed my password.

Thanks for the info Ian. Can you please pass on the request to the Nim Team?

Thanks in advance.

Here’s another couple of gems.

James Bond in a BEDE (hope I’ve spelt it right) flying through a hangar and then stopping at a petrol station for fuel.

On a similar theme, Bond again, in “Little Nellie” being chased by the helicopters in “You Only Live Twice”

Could this be for lining up something like chain links ?

The hexagonal hole might be for a bolt head or similar, to hold the device on a bench, with the screw mechanism operating horizontally, rather than vertically.

I was at Kinloss from 1982 to 1989, and don’t recall seeing any Shack bits anywhere. There were I seem to remember a Buccaneer rear fuselage (for batle damage repair practice), and the remains of aledgedly a Whitley in one of the hangars on the Northern dispersal.
Incidently if the damaged forest area is at the eastern end of the airfield, that is where the 1st Mk.2 Nimrod crashed, after taking multiple birdstrikes, so the damage is more likely to be from that, than from any other form of contamination.

As a regular visitor to the bomb dump, I don’t recall seeing any aircraft wings anywhere near that area. The only “wings” visable were of the feathered variety, belonging to a very large number of obnoxious gulls and terns, who took an instant dislike to anybody disturbing them. These were nesting within the confines of the bomb dump.