Agreed, but there are conflicting stories of where it was scrapped. It’s reputed to have gone to Luton but there are two of us on this thread that are certain it was broken up at Panshanger in a place that looks remarkably like the last picture.

One I’d completely forgotten – Darley Moor, Derbyshire. Motorcycle racing.

Its there in the Video 😉

I meant it wasn’t somebody ‘aving a larf, it HAD to be there to make it an official station.

I always understood that only XR219 and XR220 were completed but where I got that impression from now I’ve no idea.

Early leaving isn’t necessarily related to the Vulcan effect, it’s been going on for years. At the Finningley shows in the late 80s and early 90s late arrivals and early leavers overlapped.

I believe the Red Arrows voiced their objections to closing shows once as loads of people had either left or were doing so. Objections is definitely the wrong word but the one I want won’t come to mind.

Apart from the ‘presence’ of the Vulcan, I think what sticks in peoples’ minds is that a large bomber isn’t normally expected to be chucked around the sky like it is.

For the last Finningley show, the Vulcan being grounded, the highlight was a B-52. Big, smoky and impressive as it is, one flypast followed by a 20° or so climb out on the second and final was hardly a similar replacement. That’s what it does, it’s a bomber, they don’t do aerobatics as a rule.

In my experience, nothing grabs Joe Public’s attention like a/the Vulcan, followed by the BBMF and the Red Arrows.

They are all BSF / BA threads with some special pitches particularly on pipe fittings which are the same BSF profile but finer pitch than standard for that particular diameter.Pete

BSP?

Not only did Packard use exactly the same threads as RR, they made their own taps and dies because they couldn’t find anybody in the States with the capacity to do them in time.

Between June 26th and August 15th 1940, DH engineers and squadron staff converted 1,051 Spitfires and Hurricanes from 2 speed to constant speed in the field.

All this new-fangled stuff…

I’d always thought WD40 was over-rated for shifting rusty nuts and bolts, that tends to confirm it. I still use Plusgas Formula A.