Nick, I also have happy memories of spending hours at the end of the runway at St Mawgan, waiting for the Mirage IV’s or ‘French Tanker’s’ that if you were lucky did a p/d. Something similar happened to myself and a friend one day at the Watergate Bay end, another non local spotter left us to drive to the other end and have a look at the ramp outside the big hangar, as he went through the woods a pair of French Navy Crusaders went through, he also miseed them. Like your guy he thought we were joking when he got back to us, happy days indeed, another fin mess by CCC, could have had the JSF there in a few years time, oh well what might have been.:(

Known details of each aircraft can be found in the Air Britain publication, Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945,by Ray Sturtivant and Mick Burrow
ISBN 0 85130 232 7

Must be very small sections, I was having a quick nose around the SV and didn’t notice anything!

Its in the component section’s that a Meteor breaks down into for a road move, nose, tail, fuselage centre section with engine’s, outer mainplanes and horizontal tail surface. Its all there behind the Sea Vixen, the nose is mounted on a trolley and stands quite high off the ground.

The frame is stored in Cobham Hall after being on show for many years first of all in Hall 2 behind the Fulmar and in recent years in front of the glass windows that look into the restoration hangar, one day in the distant future it is hoped to restore it.
It originally came from a site in Norfolk, after being found under a bridge, the Navy who then ran the museum gave the farmer £10 for all his trouble in finding it and passing it on to them.

Also held in store by FAAM at Cobham Hall are examples of both a UH1H(AE422) and T34(0729) along with other captured vehicles, anti-aircraft weapons and ground equipment. The last open day for 2008 is on Thursday 23rd October

On the subject of Travis has anybody been in touch with them recently, I sent the museum there a email 3 weeks ago from work about paying them a visit in a couple of weeks time, to date I have not even had a reply.

T-6 TEXAN, Bob. Repeat after me….!

Yes, we left early. In fact I was officially the first arriving crew, signing in at 1040!! Blimmin long wait for everyone else to turn up.

For some inexplicable reason the organisers had decided to put all visiting display aircraft at B site – right over by 814 NAS and well away from the public. The 750 NAS apron was handed over to the public, but to be honest not many of them used it. The three F.3s and a single Firefly parked there, but it was a complete waste of the space and made the logistics of pilots getting to/from their aircraft a bit of a nightmare. A real shame, as the public just couldn’t see the far side.

Despite a few showers on Tuesday, the weather was actually quite good. Wednesday was pretty miserable and today was very bad. IFR all the way back, and the Chipmunk and Auster are still there as I type this.

Hats off to the guys who managed to display.

Sorry Lee, lost my anorak, you must have taken it with you to CU

Also Yeovilton on the 11th July