seems like Spain and some others are wanting to deal away with their Typhoon Tranchula 1
and Ikea willing to deal away with Gripen A and B

would seem like there should be a market for these no? yes? peter?

I would have thought there was a market for anything if the price was right, and backup available.

Thanks chaps !

Any idea whereabouts on Foulness?

Slightly off topic, but as an ex 1312 cadet, does the ATC Squadron at Southend still have the Lightning and Chipmunk cockpits?

Regards;
Steve

That’s a rather sad tale, and the subject of an old thread.

I belonged to 1476 Rayleigh Squadron when we first received the Lightning cockpit, it then apparently went to the long
defunct Southend museum. A couple of years ago the powers that be at Rayleigh ATC decided in their wisdom, to sell the cockpit.
Along with a very nice WWI (BE2 ?) propeller which I had donated. Well it was nice when I donated it, probably not so nice
after it had been chucked into a container for some time. 😡 😡 😡

As far as the collection in Rayleigh goes, didn’t the owner have a Viscount cockpit ?

Something sounding old and slow, twin engined maybe ?
Flew over heading north over Rayleigh at 16:21. in cloud though

Nice pictures. Although I’ve never seen a camel’s hump with an ear before 🙂

Another thing I find amazing, is that (apparently 🙂 ) the majority of the performers choose to sing in English.
They did bring out a rule in the distant past, that everyone had to sing in their own language. Maybe they
should reinstate that rule ?

With my wife being retired and me being semi-retired, we do watch a fair bit of TV.
We still have a CRT TV in the lounge (why chuck it out if it still works ?), and a small flat screen in the bedroom.

Having Sky+ or it’s equivalent must have transformed the viewing habits of many people ? Apart from the news we hardly
watch anything live.
Favourite programmes : HIGNFY, QI, The old Sherlock Holmes series on ITV4 (Jeremy Brett).
Documentaries on the History and Nat.Geo channels. Film4 put some good films on as well. We hardly watch anything on ITV1

We don’t watch any soaps, talentless shows, or quiz programmes, Although my wife does like to watch Uni.Challenge.

Some of the foreign news channels are interesting to watch, to get a different view of what is going on in the world.

I haven’t watched it for ages (what ever happened to Katie Boyle ? 🙂 )
In more recent years (although I can’t stand the bloke), I would just turn for the voting, to hear the humorous comments
made by Wogan.