I was disappointed not to be able to make it, especially as I spent Friday evening giving the Auster a bit of a wash and brush up!

Still at least on Saturday morning whilst waiting for the weather to clear I managed to knock out a few odd jobs on the aircraft, so not a total waste of time.

Fingers crossed for the next one :rolleyes:

Thanks oag.

My Vintage and Classic dropped through the letterbox this morning. 🙂

Hopefully me and ‘Tango-Alpha’ will see you at the snowball rally in January. 😉

I am guessing that some of the airframes moved probably have not been moved for many years..I wonder if any were less that cooperative..i.e. frozen wheel bearings etc…it would be interesting to see the Avro Shack or HP Hastings moved to a concrete area..sure cut down the mold and damp in the airframes…

Still Newark has a great collection…

A lot of the aircraft have had thier wheels removed in recent years to fill the tyres with foam, so I don’t think it has been that difficult. I will make enquires re moving aircraft onto the concrete but there is only a limited amount of it at Newark.

Top bloke Howard Heeley of Down to Earth Promotions (editor of the excellent Newark Air Museum newsletter ‘Dispersal’) has just e-mailed me a picture of the Varsity being moved.

Have just checked the video (the interview is at the end).

The chap says;

”we have got one or two peices of her around the place, but nothing of any bulk. The only one that ever flew was destroyed and that is something I feel very sad about”

I guess there could be parts that have survived which were removed before it went to Foulness, engines or avionics for instance.

Saturday 13th November at 12.00 noon is the offical opening ceremony of the new hangar. It is also the 150th meeting of the BAPC.

The museum is anticipating a large number of visitors so is advising to come early.

Further news from the museum is that they have aquired a HP Jetstream XX492
Currently at Culdrose it is due to be transported to the museum in the next few weeks.

Airframes recently moved ?

Any updates ?

As from 4th October the airfield became under new management.

From the note that I read they were ”promising to tidy the place up” which sounds a bit ominous for the bits and pieces of old aircraft scattered about the place.

Having said that I have been there quite a few times and despite always having a mooch around, have never seen any bits of Lincoln or Lancaster.

If the weather is good next week I might take a trip up.

I was in Vietnam for a short visit last month. Here are a few pics from around Saigon (sorry Ho Chi Minh).

The first two are at the Cu Chi Tunnel complex, the guns are there for you to try at a dollar a round. The next three are at The Reunification Palace in Saigon, with the F5 having been subject to a little local restoration.

The next four at the Military Museum in Saigon. The F5 was the one which bombed the roof of the Palace. The guns are still armed apparently!

All low back to high back conversions have involved replacing/splicing new quarter frames above the datum longeron or full half frames, if required, due to poor condition.

Frame 11, the station behind the pilot, requires substantial rework.

Mark

All except TE184!