Is that this month’s £50,000 quota used up? 🙁

Don’t throw it away. What I do is buy the paper in the main WH Smith here in Hull, when its busy. They don’t have time to cut out the coupon. I then go down to the other WH Smith and get a second DVD using the same newspaper/voucher.

Do your local police know about this scam?:cool:

Yes I have a slide of her when with Ferranti – but finding it is another matter – I’ll see what I can do when I get time. The extended nose was retained for some time and eventually removed when it was civilianised at Duxford (I have a b&w of the mod of the nose to more conventional status when in progress). The extended nose cone after removal ended up with the collection that at one time was at Booker (Wycombe Air Park) – don’t know if the component survives. Sorry I can’t easily share those pics presently.

Tim

Tim, you are getting your ‘extended nose cones’ mixed up. The Ferranti Airpass radar nose cone was replaced by a large ‘thimble’ radar nose cone in the mid-60s and it is that one that ended up at Booker. TS423 was retired from the RAE in 1979 with that nose shown here. The aircraft was then registered as G-DAKS with Aces High and flew as ‘G-AGHY’ with Ruskin Air Services colours in 1981 for the Yorkshire TV series ‘Airline’.

Does anyone know what the current status of the Brussels museum is? Is the Aviation Hall open or closed and has restoration of the building began? I am planning on making a visit in June and am concerned I may not get to see the aircraft!

I think this is the one you probably want. WT327 was modified with a B2 nose, but WV787 was modified with various noses and was used as the Ferranti Airpass testbed.

I flew my first air-to-air photo sortie with G-AIDN, way back in March 1968 out of Staverton Airport with the Skyfame Museum’s Anson.
Here she is in her early pale blue scheme:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1029473/

Brian,

Small world! I was there the very next day!! I think you did very well in those cramped conditions and how you managed to shoot the Hunter is beyond me, as I gave up! A great shame the balcony was closed, but I think this is probably the start of the massive refurbishment programme following their lottery grant. The Air & Space Hall is going to be rebuilt as a state-of–the-art glass building, so hopefully we will soon see these aircraft is much better conditions. Meanwhile, here are two of mine that you didn’t include.