Many thanks to team WT333 for your help
All the best Matt

Always a plaeasure chaps, great to catch up with you and Sean again we’ll get that equipment hatch cover sent out soon as.. It was in my bloomin bag all along 🙁

No, absolutely not…definitely something other than that..wholly un-Glosterish..Ahem.. 😮

Cracked in record time..?

Nice one Pagen..over to you!

I’m going with Fiat G-49-1 with an Alvis Leonides lump up-front…?

Worth a shot :confused:

Towards the latter days of it’s operational life, it could be said that not one entire Canberra was the same full stop! We operated a mere 7 aircraft on 39Sqn during my time (5 PR9’s and 2 T4’s) and each had it’s own particular quirks due to the age and therefore different “owners” (RAF, FRADU, AHQ etc)and Mod states of the aircraft throughout their careers (plus local Mods occasionally had to be carried out due to lack of available spares, sometimes involving donor airframes preserved in museums – Cosfords XH171 being one such “christmas tree”)

And as for TT.18’s, the FRADU examples had their very own special chapter in the AP101B to account for Navy changes – dare say the T22’s were subject to the same.

Just realised, not in any way related tp the original question – apologies! I get excitable when I see the word Canberra 😀

Aaaah!

Hi Steve,

I think maybe you have answered a question I was going to ask on the modern Military section.. There has been a massive amount of military jet activity over Newent on the Glos/Herfordshire border this last week, mainly night-time fighter chases (between 6 and 10pm!) but alas, it has been too dark to make out shapes – all I see are little red flashing lights chasing each other around the sky making a bloody great racket! I have been wondering what the deal was, but I’m guessing it may well be these Fairford guests, unless anyone knows differently..?

Anyway, excellent shots, really good to see some activity at Fairford – wish I could get down there myself..work gets in the way!

Hopefully the following:

Canberra WK163 – Back on the circuit
Meteor T.7 WA591 – 2009 maybe a bit early.

I’m liking your wants list Nige..The more straight-wing twin jet action the better I say!

Canberra spotted!

Aaahh, if you look EXTREMELY closely centre left in Chinook shot number 3, my old dear friend WK126 can be seen lurking in the background with a green cover over her canopy 😀

Nice to see some shots of a local airfield, Staverton can porvide some nice little gems from time to time

XA903

Do the mortal reamins of Blue Steel trials ship, B1 XA903 at Wellesbourne Mountford count?

Was given a fascinating and much appreciated tour of this cracking cockpit by her owner last weekend, who incidentally is doing a really great job of piecing back together this very rare old bird 😀

http://www.thevulcancollection.co.uk/