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  • January 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1319068
    Jon H
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    Could anyone tell me what ‘MLZ is classed as? Am mildly curious and in the absense of a copy all help welcome. 😀

    Jon

    January 3, 2008 at 10:06 am in reply to: Viscount Incident at Liverpool Speke #1319125
    Jon H
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    Hi Ken F, good to know you’re still around. G-ALAL and the “Terminal Viscount” are real memory jerkers.
    Enjoyed your site and pics, and wonder if by any chance you might have pic of Eagle Auster G-APCY during it’s visit to LPL for check.
    Best Wishes
    DC

    Not sure if you have stumbled across this yet?

    http://www.britisheagle.net/G-APCY.htm

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 11:31 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1319522
    Jon H
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    I totally agree with Lindy’s Lad that the Avro748,G-BEJD,is the most important aircraft at risk of being lost in 2008. For one thing it is a genuine Avro built aeroplane and it’s also one of the very few Series 1s still in existence world-wide. I also find it amazing that the H.S.748,one of the most succesful aircraft of post war Britain, doesn’t have a single preserved example in the United Kingdom of any mark.( I know there is an Andover C1/E3 at Cosford but that is a very different aeroplane).Compare this with the number of Heralds that are preserved,a far less succesful aeroplane.

    Remembered on the way home tonight that there is at least a big chunk of a 748 preserved now – The forward fuselage of G-ATMI at RAF Millom. Not a whole aircraft but more than any UK collection has managed so far so full credit to them.

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm in reply to: A military historic aviation forum? #1319527
    Jon H
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    Get stuck in on JD mate! The more the merrier. I’ll have any airliner so long as I can get a full interior for it….. oh and something that will fit in my hangar (smaller than an A300 please…!)

    Very sporting of you LL but fairs fair… 😉

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 10:06 pm in reply to: A military historic aviation forum? #1319715
    Jon H
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    I am trying my best to push civil cause on here 😉

    Would it help if I went out and rescued another civil plane? :p Would go after 748 G-BEJD but Lindys Lad has called that one 😀

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 4:03 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320277
    Jon H
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    Yes, and specifically, it has been done to that one before – twice. It was moved by road to Lyneham.

    Bruce

    Ah so all the nuts and bolts will be nice and loose for when she moves to Colney one day 😉

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 3:46 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320295
    Jon H
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    It was extensively restored before it went on the gate, but I am guessing that time has not been kind – especially knowing what de Havilland made their aircraft out of!

    As you say, the delay in closing Lyneham has reduced the urgency, but it will rise back to the top in time..!

    Bruce

    Good point! Just realised that the initial threads relating to XK699 being under threat are dated mid 2003!

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 3:33 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320307
    Jon H
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    Another aircraft that needs to be on our radar is the Comet at Lyneham. It was discussed on here some years ago, but a plan to save it has yet to find its feet.

    Bruce

    Whats the latest news on XK699/G-AMXM? Seen the various threads from a few years back and seems that the delay in Lyneham closing took the urgency out of things.

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 3:04 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320440
    Jon H
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    Were there not reports in the aviation mags a while ago about a series 1 748 going to the DAS at Duxford or did I dream it?

    A quick dig round on the net and that certainly seems to have been the rumour.

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 1:37 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320497
    Jon H
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    I find it rather ironic given I started this thread that the first airframe identified is one that used to be no more than half a mile from us, and have talked about many times to try and bring back to Speke lol 😀

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 1:12 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320618
    Jon H
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    I totally agree with Lindy’s Lad that the Avro748,G-BEJD,is the most important aircraft at risk of being lost in 2008. For one thing it is a genuine Avro built aeroplane and it’s also one of the very few Series 1s still in existence world-wide. I also find it amazing that the H.S.748,one of the most succesful aircraft of post war Britain, doesn’t have a single preserved example in the United Kingdom of any mark.( I know there is an Andover C1/E3 at Cosford but that is a very different aeroplane).Compare this with the number of Heralds that are preserved,a far less succesful aeroplane.

    We were promised one but then the company went bust. If only JD had been left at Speke…….. All that would have been needed would be to wheel it round the corner! :rolleyes:

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 10:32 am in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320689
    Jon H
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    I agree with Bruce.

    I think it is worth noting that most of the losses come from within the preservation movement these days – certainly in the UK there simply are no historic aircraft left lying in scrap yards now.

    There is one other aircraft I have just thought of – the sole remaining HS748 mk1…. currently at Blackpool, within a company in administration…although I am trying to get hold of it.

    Falklands veteran Harriers and Gulf veteran Jags are probably the only ‘modern’ aircraft to beome endangered.

    Do people think there is much more to potentially be “lost” from within the preservation movement then?

    I know which 748 you mean! Shame as she was sat at Liverpool for ages then for some reason they ferried her up to Blackpool…. 🙁 Odd really as I believe there isnt a great deal you can swap onto a mk2.

    Jon

    January 2, 2008 at 10:17 am in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1320697
    Jon H
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    I guess it has been discussed here before, but why is this Vulcan scrapped? Lack of funds, space, what? Could a new home, even outside the UK, save her? Or, at least the cockpit.

    Have a read through this – http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65136&page=6&highlight=xm603

    Jon

    January 1, 2008 at 10:36 pm in reply to: spotted on ebay #1321098
    Jon H
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    Ah thats back on is it!

    It’s been floating round on EBay for a month or two now…

    Jon

    January 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm in reply to: What Important Airframes Might Be Lost In 2008? #1321559
    Jon H
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    XM607 at woodford, for being the only vulcan paintied in the original antiflash white scheme, it will be a crying shame to see another vulcan scrapped 🙁

    XM603 is not painted in original antiflash scheme though! As far as I can remember after the white the rest of the markings are wholey inaccurate.

    However you could argue that the 603 Club’s efforts to remove all mods to her down the years has made her the only stock B.2 left.

    Jon

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