The publication of photographs of the Mapua Mosquito is strictly forbidden by its owner, John Smith. He allows people access and allows them to photograph it, but on the proviso that no photographs of his collection are published online or in print. I don’t know whether mossie.org sought special permission to post the photos they have, but I’d like to hope that other people will respect his wishes. He asks this for his safety and his security, and because he already gets far too many enquiries from people around the world regularly as it is to cope with.

Thank you for your reply. I didn’t realise that this was the case. Seems a bit odd to me, but as it’s his train and all that he has the right to do as he pleases with it.

I note from a recent thread on the Wings of NZ forum, that is has reportedly moved. Is it indeed the case?

That link is for a job advert!

That depends if the event had NOTAM’d Airspace, if it was an organised event with a CAA permision then it would have!!

Deffo NOTAM’d. I was bimbling around on Saturday and copped it.

The previous gategaurd at wattisham went to that radar place and then was just cut up after all the effort to get it there as the new CO didn’t like it apparently

Assume you mean the gate guard at RAF Neatishead. It was scrapped because the base closed.

Blue 2. Yup ! all for me me me :diablo: It will be interesting to see if the local museum are going to open it to Joe P

Hope so never been in a Nimrod!

Where abouts is it parked in relation to the museum ? Looking on Google, there don’t appear to be any, even overgrown, hardstandings that close.

It is parked in the north-west corner, on one of the old loop dispersals I think (where the F100’s are shown on Google Earth). You can see it from the Cromer Road.

These are the people you nedd to talk to.

http://www.deltair.co.uk/

I did not suggest that the MOD should give away anything merely it was unhelpful to any future plans to run the engines if they removed all of the fuel.

My comment about civilian arrangements was merely to illustrate when you buy x for y, you can negotiate what is included in x, yes even with the MOD.

I fully appreciate that they might be just defueling the ‘div’ fuel and leaving the tanks wet (let’s hope so).

What also needs to be appreciated, as Twin Otter mentions, you cannot just re-use fuel removed from one aircraft by putting in to another.

Moths are supported by DH Support, so they still qualify for a Certificate of Airworthiness.

So you can still use them for things like pleasure flights.