Spit Post #4
Use the Manage Attachments facility, which has been explained many times by myself and others. If you can’t figure it out, please use the Search facility to find references to “Manage attachments”.

Google Earth – Duxford

This is what came up for me on trying to get Duxford from Google Earth.

Wrong side of Ireland for Aberporth – unless you mean the EAST coast! While I was there we were shooting down Meteors into Cardigan Bay with Bloodhounds – spectacular!

See the two aerials at the highest point of the Rock? That was my workplace for a week at a time, in the mid-1960s, servicing the Eureka beacon. There was one flight a week from the UK (usually an Argosy, at least once a Britannia as I remember) so we used to work day and night as soon as we arrived, and after about 24 hours solid work the job was done. That gave us the remaining 5 or 6 days to sit on the beach!
The RAF was a wonderful organisation in those days!

All six of the Ashtons had bits and pieces (including test engines) fitted beneath the fuselage or wings, but the one shown is “naked”. Mmmmmmm . . . ???

I’ve just skimmed through the fairly detailed “Black Buck” chapter in “Avro Vulcan” by Robert Jackson and there is no mention of XM575 at all. All the serials of the participating Vulcans are given there, including all five that were equipped with the Delco Carousel Intertial Navigation System, for long range navigation over the South Atlantic.

Deteriorating eyesight, teeth falling out, aching joints, if you’re lucky like me, even a heart attack or two! Thank goodness for the Swedish NHS!

Hampden

Here’s the one in Canada – search the Forum and you will find previous references to this and the other survivors.