Mildly amusing, good to see the yanks getting the “We won” quote into the mixer!!

Probably destined to become Ground Instructional airframes of some shape or form would be my guess.

Good question and a tough one to call!

This had made me think long and hard about which of the 3 I’d choose, and JDK, good skill on the wildcard of the Sperrin! Am I right in thinking none exist and haven’t done for a good few years? Anyhoo after much deliberation I have reached the colclusion of the Vulcan, tough one though!!

Heard a good story from our Rects Controller a few weeks ago, he is an ex Victor man and he was telling us about how the French used to get upset when we wanted to transit our fighters over their air space, the sloution was a couple of Victors in close formation, which created a big enough radar return to smuggle a couple of fighters each directly underneath them, ATC were none the wiser! Nice one lads!

A couple of pictures I took follow.

XL361 ‘Guarding’ Goose, summer 2003

XH673 ‘Guarding’ Marham in early 2006

Rob

Is the first short a F.3 or GR model? Can’t see a refueling probe on the side

As stated it’s a GR4. The probe is a removable asset. Always quite funny to watch a Pilot clamber into the cockpit of a probeless aircraft to be strapped in, then place his bone dome to the side where the probe should be….. This is followed by a bang as it impacts the floor, sometimes smashing the visor too. This is then followed by swearing from the aircrew, laughing from us lineys and the Nav getting on the radio to the Squipper to get a spare brought out. Brilliant!

To the best of my knowledge It was to see the effect that firing the gun had on the air going into the engine intake, if it turned out that if was disturbed too much, they might have had to fit the gun, but not electrically connect it. What use would a fighter jet be that carried a gun it was not able to use! Eurofighter anyone??

The current owner of 903’s Nose section posts on this site, I’m sure he will be able to elaborate on this matter.

Also found both Southend’s, Manchester’s and Blackpool’s Vulcans. I have spotted about 16 Vulcans.

I would love to see Newark, Flixton, Cosford and Fleet Air Arm Museums from the air but they are all not clear yet.

I went on a Vulcan hunt and could only find the 8 below, and the blackpool one is no longer with us! what others did you find? Enlighten me!!

Rob

My bad ollie! I see what you mean now! I’m sure that there must be a few dead 199’s kicking around somewhere! Are you ollie of lusty lindy by chance?