Ah for the days when Starfighters, Super Sabres and Phantoms were ten a penny in Europe. Sigh 🙁

Oh yes, and for the days when one could indulge in a self guided tour of the CAF storage hangars at Prestwick and see dozens of F-104s 😉 …

I’d be keen to see any photos of your current and previous projects as well if you’d like to share them Simon.

try this link http://www.air-scene-uk.com/hangar/f3s/f2s/zd938.htm

Just out of interest, a good few F3’s were rebuilt i early 90’s using centre/rear sections from retired F2’s, why was this?

The first few F3s were (allegedly) badly damaged during major rework and possibly the damaged areas were those replaced by the F2 bits

Again, lifted from elsewhere.

These were in store at UK Surplus (Stafford) and all went to Cronifer Metals at Chesterfield. These were visible from outside at Stafford for a while (nobody ever tells me in time..)

A92-903 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ498) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-904 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ499) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-905 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ500) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-906 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ501) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-907 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ502) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-909 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ504) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-910 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ505) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-911 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ506) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-912 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ507) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-913 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ508) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-914 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ509) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-917 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ512) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92-918 Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ513) ex DERA Llanbedr.
A92- Jindivik Mk.104A, (ZJ ) ex DERA Llanbedr.

It is believed that Cronifers had scrapped further Jindiviks from Llanbedr but no further details are known.

It’s a model of an Apache. It’s been there for quite a few years now.

Is it not a Globemaster I?

I wonder what happened to the Fulcrum’s canopy

This may have been commented on before, so excuse me if it has, but the imagery on Windows Live is quite old and there can be a surprising change if the ‘birds eye’ option is available. Not just in terms of aircraft visible but whole new buildings and complexes can appear in the birds eye option.

For example, Biggs AAF in El Paso, there are whole new complexes built up in the desert to the north which don’t appear on the Windows Live but only in the Birds Eye view.

Going south to El Paso International airport, using the birds-eye option reveals four F-106s being restored – 2 As and 2 Bs (without tails). Using the direction arrows gives you really good all round views of them (and the four C-17s at Biggs…).

There’s no security sensitive equipment on Genfly, so I imagine its a general policy of Cosford. The hanger where they’re installed is a huge training space with lots of time expired engines and some dead aircraft, so again, I can’t see any security implications. I was there last week preparing the ground for a modification on the flaps system to introduce asymetry in the port/starboard flaps and we took loads of unsupervised photographs. By contrast, at Westlands, all photos must be taken by the onsite photographer … perhaps a jobsworth, but all cameras, phones, laptops and memory sticks are held in the reception area during a visit.

I think they had been recently installed at Cosford when we were there and the guides were VERY insistent that we could not take any photos, although we could take pix of everything else in the hangar.