lightweight as in carried on board an aircraft maybe?

I wondered if the older Air Raid Sirens had a small detachable handle like that.
Maybe a winding handle for an aircrafts’ trailing aerial?
How long is the leg of the handle?

Baz, yep definitely very under nourished for hangar door winder!

Just guessing really!:o

I would say Yeovilton is a must, great variety of modern, British & foreign forces, as well as vintage aircraft.
Cosford 2010 was a reasonable show, though not of the same scale as
Waddington, it had good variety and was nicely paced. RIAT Fairford and the Farnaborough shows are still the giants.
Wouldn’t consider Legands at all, too much of the same thing for me.

As a taster for VL,
http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/pagen/Yeovilton%2010/
http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/pagen/Yeovilton%20Air%20Day%202011/

The link and comment is in regard to XL577 specifically, which I thought was seperate from Delta Jets.

Also thought that Delta folded in spring of 2011?
As in the Hunters St Athan thread, WV372 is at HFL, & WV318 is Hunter Flying Academy.
I am willing to be corrected though.

If you’re in contact with them, please let them know that they are welcome to my pictures from both days here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/56270329@N08/sets/72157629560549453/

This was Neil then,

ed071s by jamtey71, on Flickr

Hunter T.7B WV318 R G-FFOX 29 March 2012 by jamtey71, on Flickr

Hunter T.7B WV318 R G-FFOX 29 March 2012 by jamtey71, on Flickr

T.4 -Sole remaining example still on gate guard duty at Boscombe long after
when a replacement more common type could have replaced her.

But it is theirs, and very relevant to the airfield and the operators’ past.

The T.5 at Cranwell is an outstanding example of the type in preservation, as good as any aircraft indoors, all be it a live ‘exhibit’.

Must admit I could never get my head around the P.1B, XA847, story, wasn’t it part of a national collection once?

First bits I found were discarded exhaust stubs and rudder weights from Lancasters at St Eval, eventually found a huge ASV aerial in a very shiney metal which I tried cycling home with – I gave up by the time I got to Carloggas, St Mawgan!
First bit I remember buying was an undercarriage indicator from a friend at school.

It was quite a well known accident, and has been discussed here before, but it was thought that the canopy jettison system was fouled/damaged when the aircraft hit the sea. Because the pilot had to remove head gear as sea water was most likely entering his breathing system, combined with his unstrapping from the seat, and trying to hold back a very heavy canopy rearwards against gravity for normal escape his chances of using the seat were reduced. There was also suggestion that he might not have taken to the seat because of the proximity of the rescue helicopter. I’m sure I’ve read that he eventually succesfully unstrapped, and got the canopy back far enough, but his leg restraints were still attached.

The whole thing was made worse by the media being in attendance as it was the first front-line deployment of the Scimitar to a carrier, Cdr Russell being the lead pilot for 803 sqn for the embarkation aboard Victorious.
It is perhaps surprising, given how bad our current media is, that such things were shown back then – it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever watched.
Really brings home what these guys had to go through on board carriers.