Amazing! Such a book as alanl suggests would be guaranteed a place on my shelf!

Update 06/03/2010

Busy day in YAM yesterday, as the plan was to move both Lindy and the Nimrod out to have their first sniff of the airfield this year. This was to allow the Hunter, Mirage and one of the Tornados to be moved from the pan next to Lindy to near the hangar for washing.
Lindy was first to be moved, with Brian and his tug providing motive power:


Then the Nimrod went to join her:


The puddle jumpers were moved…

And the Nimrod and Lindy came back in!


With the political reshuffle done, and Brian having earned his apple pie, we started to prepare the big jets for their moment in front of the by now reasonable sized crowd!
Ollie (Victor Sim) and I went into the bomb bay to check the status of the fuel tanks within. Not an easy job, as you can see…

Access isn’t all that great!

Once you’re in there, on top of the frankly massive tanks, it’s not so bad. Indeed, it must’ve been THE place to skive, be bored and draw graffiti on the aircraft;



So with all the checks completed and our visitors back away from the jets to a safe distance, it was time for the big jets to do their thing.
Nimrod first:

All went well, with some reasonable power put on and most hydraulic systems exercised. Then it was our turn. I elected to stay outside this time, to hear and feel the noise properly for a change!

Ollie in the hot seat…

All our systems were also exercised well, and functioned perfectly. The engines were also allowed to stretch their legs, with all 4 run to 60/65% together, and 75%ish individually. Apart from one fleshy interface error in the cockpit (!) everything went to plan and Lindy threw no glitches whatsoever. I got the lovely, lovely job of scampering around under her as she was winding down to empty the collector boxes, and getting the sleeves of my overalls drenched in jet fuel, such a joy!
After a well-earned brew/cake break during which we were mortified to find all the apple pie was gone :eek:, we were back to the Buccaneer for another go at sorting the starboard igniter box. The box was changed for a spare, and is now performing correctly. While we were at it I took an opportunity to have a sit in the cockpit

The eagle-eyed Buccaneer aficionados among you will no doubt notice a few differences between the cockpit of this development S.2 and the standard S.2. Well apparently there’s some…::o:
After being busy round the Bucc, we put Lindy to bed and called it a day. All in all a successful day, the aircraft behaved well, and it was good to see a good turnout. It was nice to meet Lighty, also Old Eagle. My apologies I didn’t get back across to see the cars with you, but Ali, Rich and I did go for a nosey and very nice they were too. Thanks all for coming.
Watch this space for details of next month’s runs 🙂

Don’t forget folks the next set of anti det runs for the big jets will take place this sunday (6th) at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York 😉

Sorry,where’s that at? 😉

There is some jiggery pokery to be done on Sunday as some of the puddle jumpers need to be moved to be washed, so if tractors and towing arms float your boat get down to Yam this Sunday.

Always, er, interesting to watch…! 😉

These runs by the way are regular anti det runs, and in no way part of the museums work up for deploment of certain assets to Libyan airspace 😉

Although Andre is preparing a stencil, just in case we have to add more tanker mission markings to Lindy…
So Elvington will be a hive of activity and the weather’s given good for Sunday, so come see us! 🙂

cheers L7, SH. The Blower is a very special car, I think the closest I’ll ever get to owning one is the dinky one on my shelf from when my dad was a child! As to the Porsche, well… Having driven several of various vintages and not been massively impressed, all I’ll say is I didn’t laugh too much when I saw a brand new 11 reg one broken down yesterday near RAF Leconfield, honest…!