I am proud to point out that the chap featured heavily in this film, Alan Radford is my grandfather, with his ex-wife June, also in the film being my grandmother. 😀

Alan is still alive and kicking, though sadly June died last year.

As you can imagine, Concorde is well and truly in my blood! Proud is not strong enough a word to express what I feel about my grandfathers involvement. I am so lucky to be able to watch this to remind myself of not only the part he played, but also what we were once capable of.

Oh and the F111’s – I used to get to sit in the escape modules as a young lad while Alan was on the team doing the servicing. Happy happy memories!

Very nicely put Pete! 😎

None at all sadly.

The closest we have at current is WK163 at Coventry, grounded pending sourcing a good Avon 109 with necessary RR documentation. Not as easy as it sounds unfortunately.

Ex 39 (1 PRU) Sqn PR9 XH134 is still kept undercover at Kemble pending a possible return to flight programme by the owner Midair(SA) having been ferried by air onto site in June 2006. It’s a definite possible!

Other than that, we, ground run and fast-taxi WT333 at Bruntingthorpe, and keep XH135 in a live (currently static but with the possibility of taxiable in the future) at Kemble.

All sonewhat ground-bound until further notice!

Some of us are still starting! 😀

Thought it was a good day all round and great to meet up again with a few Forumites.

Personally got a pair of ID switchboxes (thanks Air Ministry) and an oxygen economiser (TT18Timbo). Thanks to Stacey24b for pointing out the Chippy GA drawing for a pound 😀 and to David Collins for providing the wheels to get me there.

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Great to meet you today John (and actually put a face to a name..we must have met so many times unwittingly before!) and glad you relieved us of that economsier!

Today proved better for “networking” than for sales/purachases, but that’s by no means a bad thing. Recovering from the 4:30 am reveille on the other hand has proved to be a slightly bad thing! 😮

Ooooh those are gorgeous!! Stripey Canberra’s are to die for..I am just itching to get WK126 put back together after seeing those…not 7 Sqn I know, but FRADU is close enough!

Thanks James, got your PM and headed straight there – some smashing shots!

hehe, oh how us liney’s on 39 spent our time effectively, learning new skills and making the most of our very limited resources…like killing bugs with Avpin!

I think me and Shane Piper used most remaining 39 Sqn “C” stores making Chief Tech John “Coney” Powell a leaving gizzit..it’s a wonder there was anything left to maintain the jets! 😮

Would there be any chance of emailed copies of your lovely PR9 pics for the XH135 archive folder Jase?