i am completely sold to Florence.

So was Zebedee, until Dougal rusted his spring!

What about Final Countdown or the firefighting film with Holly Hunter? Forget its name. Love the opening sequence of the Cat scooping water and heading for the two fishermen.

Why 633 and not Mosquito Squadron?

Agree with the others and add..
Tora, Tora, Tora

I’ve known it as Gatport Airwick or HBHAC (pronounced hubhac) – Hell between Horley and Crawley!

First time I’d seen the new plans….Urgh!!! Monstrosity, Carbuncle etc etc.

Another couple of Nimrod photos from the home of the mighty Hunter…Again, straight from the slide box that hasn’t been opened in a couple of years hence the muck!

XW626 was placed for the roll out of the first prototype AEW. The base Nimrod was a proto for the MR2 and from what I remember was stood in the same place for many months.

The heavily modified Comet used for Nimrod AEW work was XW626.

I remember seeing a Comet nose at Woodford that I never properly identified. It had a red and gold cheat line if I remember correctly. Possibly I have a photo somewhere. Maybe a long weekend is needed to go through thousands of slides..

i have worked on all types including Growlers and in fact I worked at Woodford so have a passing aquaintence with both the Shackelton and the Vulcan.
I have actualy been down to Coventry more than a few times (having also worked for AA).The principle is great and I would support it and in fact we even looked at the feasibility of moving her to Elvington with lots of runway etc.and the Museums verbal blessing we could undertake the work on her there.I am all for it BUT as I have said in a previous thread there is the big issue of key spares.She has tons of airframe spares BUT a shortage of Key hydraulic and major electrical spares in fact she has a big shortage of generators. Wing spar billets aint a problem £72 K for the set last time of asking but a lot invoved as they have to be drilled aircraft specific and therefore a lot of implications if someone screws it up.
When we looked into the issue of the key spares I was told well there is an airframe here and two in Cyprus and one in the USA. Great but if the key parts are knackered on those airframes and you run out of spares at an airshow away from base then what ?.
Funding is not realy an issue as I know there are an awful lot of growler fans out there as I own the domain Avro Shackleton .co.uk that should give you a clue. But Spares issues must be nailed down firmly before any further responsible action can go ahead.
At the end of the day its supporters and sponsors money and you need to look to giving them value for money with a reasonably long display life.From memory I think its around 3,500 hours from major to extensions on proviso before next spar boom mod/relife.

All for it and go for it guys if you can nail the key spares issue’s. We will give what support and engineering effort we can and possibly also some input from one of our sponsors.

Regards Keep up the good work

Mike Eastman

Is that the same Mike Eastman involved with Skeeter BDNS, Auster Agricola and Provost XF914?