Whilst doing this, it would be a good idea to identify which are actually ‘Sea’ Furies and which are Fury ISS variants (ex Iraqi) with fixed wings and no arrestor hook.

Interesting, I always wondered where the tail pipe on XA699 went to? Here is my earliest shot of her at Cosford on 23rd August 1971 when used as a training airframe by No.2 STT. The tail pipe was intact then, so I guess it got removed during the ‘training’. Interesting to note that the nose cone was bare fibreglass colour? The second shot is the first time I saw her at MAM on 31st March 1989, devoid of tail pipe!

Trying to keep all my balls in the air at once has always been my problem! (oor, er, missus! :rolleyes: ). By that I mean burning the midnite oil with too much aviation – photography, modelling, writing articles…and another book…doing reearch for model companies…keeping friends happy, trips to the post office, to air shows, airports, museums. Somewhere amongst that lot comes eating and sleeping and holding down a full time responsible day job. Then the lure of the PC gets all too much and I switch off, cuddle up with the cat on my lap and wiffy beside me and watch a solid evening’s TV….ah, sanity returns!!! 😉

Kemble today

Super weather for Delta Jets 10th Anniversary Open Day today. Good to meet several forumites and thought you might like to see a taste of what was there. As you can see, I found the Bristol Aero Collection, now sharing half of an Airbus storage hangar at the extreme south of the airfield.

The Bristol Aero Collection will also be open for the first time this year in its new home, hangar E2 on the Southern edge of Kemble airfield. Admission will be free, and donation boxes will be around the hangar to help make up some of the lost income from being closed during the summer! This was a result of various H&S problems, flooding etc. As a bonus the cockpit of Bolingbroke RCAF 9048 has just been moved up from Filton, and no work has started on it yet. The rest of the aircraft is in storage at Filton pending restoration.

Andy A.

Andy,

I am probably not the only one that is not familiar with the hangar designations at Kemble. Please can you explain where hangar E2 is in relation to the previous hangar that the Bristol Aero Collection was housed in? Hope it is less crowded as photography was almost impossible before?

Thanks

What is the last photo? Is that another Hind brought back from Afghanistan?

What’s the Dutch Spit doing there? I’m surprised one of our regular ‘Duxford sleuths’ has not mentioned this before? :confused:

Just finished watching the “Red Arrows” selection procedure on BBC1, during which I think our delightful lady presenter needs to do more research. We were told that “during the 1940s, the skies were awash with aerobatic teams”….and “The VC-10 is the fastest transport aircraft in the world”…hmm! 😮