I think the JCB sounds like the way ahead… Failing that, napalm :diablo:

So does that mean that until the MRA4’s are worked up our maritime surveillance will be done by a bloke, leaning out of a Sea King or the back of a Herc, with a set of binoculars? 😮
And why isn’t at least Cosford taking an MR2? Hendon I can sort of understand, given the problems of actually getting the thing there. But surely Cosford can have one? Come on RAF, think about it! 😡

The bounder. Some mate then, the sort you can do without by the sound of that 😡

I say chaps something wrong here a youngster talking in real honest measurements not that silly metric rubbish.:D

He’s had to be converted into imperial to work on ‘319! 😀

I get that one all the time Mike :mad:. I wish there was some sort of provision during car driver training to explain just what you can and can’t see from a truck, what room you need to manouvre, what stopping distance you need etc. I guess given the, er, vintage of the trucks in the fleet in question (if you’ve ever seen them on the road you’ll know what I mean) it’d be too old to have the ‘down the front’ mirror- my 07 Scanny has it, me mate’s 53 DAF doesn’t. Think you’d feel a bump, and as dave says check down the sides for idiots or for tyres gone.

Just goes to show how powerful a lorry is. When I drive mine loads of people pull out in front of me, maybe certain car drivers should watch this and learn something.

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Dave has a good point though. Many car drivers don’t appreciate things like truck stopping distances etc.

I want one! Looks gret fun. And a new and interesting way of upsetting the local sailing-types 😀

I thought it was the diving site just off a63, with the shell of a Sea King and other stuff in it!
Shame about the A1 Lightning, I stopped near it for a break not long before it was fenced in and went for a nosey. As has been said, some bits were obviously chavved off, but others seem to have been removed really carefully. The cockpit would need serious reskinning if it were to be saved, as the local ne’er do wells seem to have had little better to do than chuck heavy stuff at the cockpit area with varying degrees of (in)accuracy to try break the windows so its taken a serious battering. It amazes me how persistent they must’ve been to do that- I found a couple of bits of the canopy/screens lying around on the ground and had them away, just looking at them now, they’re bl**dy thick. The belly’s a proper mess where the frame’s gone through it, but I was amazed to see the engines still on board. The wings and tail seem to be held on with crude steel plates IIRC and there’s rot everywhere.
A sad waste of a truly beautiful aircraft- whenever I see it it’s with mixed emotions of happiness that it’s still clinging on (just!) and sadness it’s in that state.