Nice! Yeah 131 for some reason escaped the final wash and so mother nature is doing her best to bring back the hemp look.

Are you ex 39 JASE? You seem to have some nice insider pics 🙂

Kemble Canberra’s

XH131 (the tatty looking one) has remnants of the grey temporary alkaline finish applied for Ops over Afghanistan still showing over the original hemp. It was never washed off prior to delivery to Kemble, and has therefore slowly worn off since 2006 due to rain, the blanks brushing against it and a little bit of work here and there for last years air day. It is not in any particularly bad condition, it just gives the appearance. It is due to depart Kemble to a new home this year.

XH135 is being prepared for static display at this years air day by a a small team, and was today moved from it’s long-time location over near the Chevron hangar, to a dispersal on the other side of the airfield.

XH134 is under the technical supervision of Delta Jets (though not owned) and is maintained in a servicebale condition. I cannot speak for the owners precise plans for the aircraft though it is well cared for and under cover.

Hope that helps!

It would be great if we could sort something out, from our point of view it would be nice to put her on show, having been kept locked up for many years and it is fifty years of Canberra !

good call but….60 years of Canberra! 😀

Canopy

Where tact is concerned, PM is your friend 😉 Purely out if interest, I’m just being nosey!

Av.P 970 Design Requirements

Not wishing to hijack in any way..but thought this might be of interest..

I have a Ministry of Aviation Av.P 970 Design Requirements for Aircrarft of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy publication sat in front of me, which contains a rather nice section with colour sample cards featuring none other than this troublesome “Sky” dated 1st September 1948.

If anyone is interested, drop me a PM as it is surplus to my requirements.

Ta!

Timbo

Family Pride

Not normally one to boast in public, but I’m so darned proud that I can’t help myself…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_7989000/7989702.stm

The electrical team supervisor featured in this wonderful piece, Alan Radford is my Grandfather 😀 My Grandmother June is also featured .

“Proud” is nowehere near a weighty enough word to express my feelings on seeing this at this historic time. Concorde has been around in my family for as long as I can remember, to the point that I guess I took for granted the family’s link. Despite tinged with sadness at the loss of what I consider to be our last great aviation engineering feat, this brought a smile to my face big enough to..well..fly Concorde into 😀

Hope you enjoy as much as I did.