Thanks folks, I will be booking in to a hotel near the airport for the Sunday activity.
Lossiemouth Mirage 2000N
Thanks for the answers, for those in the area i have been told there are four 2000N at Lossiemouth today ,joining 2 RSAF C135 tankers which are left over from an RSAF deployment.
I watched at Inverness tonight, about 30 attended. Very impressed with the flying sequences usingthe real Lancs low over the water.
Caught an interloper, when Barnes goes to see Mutt Summers on the airfield prior to the practice in a Mosquito, the background line up of Lancs includes a Canberra !
The bully cannot be allowed to prevail. Scale this up and you can understand why I think some wars are justified. And if a war or battle has to be fought it must use the best methods available to bring about a conclusion as quickly as possible.Despite some claims ,even in the present day the safety of non combatants is not certain.
Quarrywood near the Williamson scrapyard Elgin does have several filled in quarries which do contain aircraft parts. I have found a data plate from a Lanc on the surface. The problem is…the council insisted that the quarries were filled and levelled off to prevent access . Before the backfill was completed I could see twisted control wires, bits of cockpit framing and lots of small jagged mixed up metal. It would have been a very tricky job to recover anything fom a mangled mess of bits. These were the leftovers from the scrapyard , not complete buried aircraft.My informant recalls that about 30 years ago he used to play in the quarry areas and thinks there may have been turret bits.
Given what was withdrawn from service at nearby Kinloss and Lossie could be maritime Lanc or Shack or Lincoln.
Does anyone want to spend time with a JCB type digger at this site? I can show them where it is.
A quarry in cumbria was the source of some Albermarle parts recovered by David Stansfield of Bacup.
Wroughton pics and future plans
Heres an interesting BBC pics section (note that the hovercraft has B class markings, I remember the Airfix kit)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/in_pictures_technology0s_hidden_past/html/1.stm
[same link as Moggy gave – BR]
Perhaps you are confused, beny, thats a Widgeon or Mallard, well they are all ducks anyway.
I am baffled, why is such a rare aircraft as A DH Drover rotting outside ?
I remember when it was safely stored dismantled in the back of the Air Navigation and Trading hanger at Blackpool.
All the fuss about a Hunter in Hull and a Vulcan scrapped at Blackpool, surely the only Drover in the Northern Hemisphere can be properly preserved?
WOW
A very moving finale and also sad when I saw the pilots names in the credits.
Dear BAZV, its really strange that when the truth is told and the answer is simple, people like you still will not accept it.
The official RAF air safety magazine Air Clues related the cost effective way in which schemes were reviewed and it was all organised by one person who kept it very simple.
dayglo etc
Sticky back dayglo produced by 3m and no radiation hazard shown on packaging.
Black training scheme was decided on by a full scale trial which proved that contrast was the best way to make an aircraft stand out.This of course only applies to daytime !
hedonism not paganism
Phixer .thats where I purchased my Mamiya kit…Ffordes of Beauly, very good advice to be had from them .
Film has its place even now
I love my Canon 400D and have not used my 35mm film camera since I got the digital…however due to the amount of gear being traded in I was able to buy 15 months ago a Mamiya 645 medium format set of kit for £1500. It was only about 8 years old and cost around £9000 new.
Sometimes I need to produce big enlargements for display use and 35mm does not enlarge that big.