Almost ready for the Exhibition Flight to claim her back!!

Perhaps RAFM could give you LA226 next……

Jag pitot looks like opportunistic itinerant scrap metal thieves.

The Newark theft is so much more.

Australia didn’t actually have any serious interest in TSR2 either. After an initial evaluation, their attention shifted to the USA. Many have speculated as to why, and blamed the UK for the way in which TSR2 was handled, or accused the US of underhand sales techniques, and so on. In actual fact, the real reason behind Australia’s preference for F-111 (and the interim F-4) was to simply become politically attached to the US. No matter how good TSR2 (and borrowed Valiants) might have been, Australia had no intention of adopting them.
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The memo I have seen basically made that point (Wish I could find the blooming thing!)

The problem was always that you have a huge volume of traffic on small rural roads. The Police can only do so much, only so many cars can fit onto the space. It’s the on-base snarl ups that cause the problems

One year It took me 4 hours to get out the car park. The next, parking in the same place, leaving at the same time, I was out in 25 minutes. My wife, who was attending in a work capacity was exactly the opposite. (How I laughed the second year!!)

This year they are discouraging onsite parking by jacking up the prices and making it pre-purchase only, so anyone without an onbase ticket will be sent to the P&R sites. This should mean that the Police have much greater control of the flow. My concern is how many buses they have!!

I have a rat-run route through the hniterland of Fife that usually puts me within a mile of the base pretty quickly!

Dave
I made no comparison with recovered/conserved/restored wrecks only gave real example of a similar wreck in local to show possible sea bed condition.

OK! 🙂

If anyone wants to waste, sorry, spend some time exploring Syrin airbases, Scramble has the link to the Google maps

http://www.scramble.nl/mil/4/syaf/orbat.htm

Looks like a few Mig 17 / Mig 19’s on the dump too. Any idea what the straight winged aircraft is near the Migs? Looks a bit like a Canberra but too small?

Interesting!

It’s an NF Meteor I reckon

Is this a Meteor?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=N36+11.22+E037+34.31&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.95462,46.362305&ie=UTF8&ll=36.190116,37.584196&spn=0.001245,0.00283&t=h&z=19

And if it is, what is the smaller aircraft next to it – and slightly to the right as well. Much decayed Spits?

Note the Gate Guardian Mig-21 and the Museum Row far left – couldanything interesting be in that building?

I remember when Newark’s aircraft was thought to be the sole remaining FR9, then the South American survivors were discovered.

The thing I find amusing about all this is how everyone is tip-toeing around who ‘actually’ now owns the aircraft, with nods and winks by ‘those in the know’. Or indeed, where it actually is now!

And I have no idea!!!