…which if correct means that I probably witnessed its first flight (as RP-C-1181 for Philippine AL) way back in 1970!

Well I’d agree that it’s a bit savage, but I would also agree that folks taking artefacts and then disposing them as garbage (or in fact selling them on eBay) is something I wouldn’t approve of either 🙂

Thunderbird167: appreciate the measured response – mine was a bit waxy, so apologies. I can confirm that USAAF/USAF designations are ‘mission’ – ‘dash’ – ‘type number’ – ‘subtype/variant’, so always ‘F-6D’ for a recce P-51D, ‘F-6K’ etc and ‘P-51/F-51’ etc.

USN designations can be a nightmare, but in general, pre-1962 they followed the format, ‘mission’ – ‘type number’ – ‘manufacturer’ – ‘dash’ – ‘subtype/variant’; so the production Missileer would have been the F6D-1 and so on. There are always exceptions to the Navy designation system, hence FJ-1 for the Fury rather than F1J-1, F1J-2 etc.

The F-101 looked neater last time I was at Goose Bay too: but I’d imagine a ton of snow on those Vulcan wings would be the biggest concern, given the years and a fair bit of corrosion.

Well pedant or not we now have a post elsewhere referring to an F6D (Missileer) – again it seems it’s not about that type at all.

Accuracy no longer important I guess.

And I wasn’t being pedantic – I’m still on the lookout for a modern jet engine: a TF34, as used on the A-10 would be ideal (or for non-accuracy speakers “tf-34 used on the a10”).

Aha: confusing – F100 engine (no hyphen; and as fitted to the F-15 Eagle) versus F-100 aircraft (with hyphen) and now ‘F-100 engine’ mentioned (which I think is a J57?).

I can see from the photo it’s an F-100!

Those hyphens are important – it’s what differentiates ‘U2’ (Irish band) from ‘U-2’ (Dragon Lady).

R7 refers to the number of registered owners under that reg since allocation

Aah – makes more sense: thanks 🙂

Not much metal in a Sparrowhawk and when you take out the necessary metallic bits of the Sparrowjet, not much left from that time. Shame it won’t emerge as a twin jet, but any Miles product in the skies is better than none!