Surely this is a fantastic outcome, when you consider that demolition was mentioned not long ago.
It would be unrealistic to expect this great building to carry on having a future in aviation, or anything ‘glamourous’ and at the very least a warehouse will ensure taht the Brabazon sheds survives and is maintained.

…but that won’t stop me suggesting that the Tornado would have been the Blenheim of WW3. Rubbish, but the best we had at the start.

I don’t think that in any way the Tornado GRs could be considered rubbish, even if there are very mixed views about the Tornado fighter.
GRs were really down in the brunt of the action in GW.1, I seem to remember that other allies crews were in awe of the Tornados’ and crews capabilities, especially considering the action that they were up against.

Re the original point about losses against the Russians, I would think heavy losses would be factored in right from the start when the aircraft was ordered, it was the nature of the cold-war scenerio that large waves of aircraft would be used at the beginning with a high probablility that many wouldn’t come back, as noted with the V Bombers.
One thing that the MoD (& predecessors) and RAF have been good at from the expansion era to the late ’90s, was ordering large numbers of aircraft beyond what was needed in normal peace time scenerios, and having a very good aircraft storage and dispersal system. In times of war stored aircraft could quickly be readied to bolster initial losses.

It certainly has, thanks Bannanas!:)

Yes, I was thinking that from this page, http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=269, or has there been a substantial improvement since?

I remember seeing it mounted on a pole outside the old RAF Officers Mess at Farnborough.

Isn’t the “Double Mamba” the best engine name ever?
Not just a Mamba, but a Double Mamba.
😀

Have to agree about the name!

Due to the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba being the only production success of the family, it is often forgotten that there was such a thing as a Mamba, there were a few built but they only powered prototypes such as the Short Seamew and S.B.3, A.W.Apollo, Miles M-69 Marathon II, B.P. Balliol, Avro Athena, Breguet Vultur, aswel as various engine test-beds.
In a pure jet form four were fitted to the Swiss EFW Aiguillon fighter.

The initial Double Mamba ASDM.1/Mk.100 (Gannet AS.1 & T.2, and Blackburn Y.B.7) used two Mamba ASM.3s, and is distinctive from the rest of the family in having individual ‘cannular’ combustion chambers.
The ASDM.3/Mk.101 (Gannet AS.4, COD.4, T.5, & ECM.6) used two ASM.5s introduced the annular combustion chamber and other improvements.
The most powerful and final incarnation, the ASDM.8/Mk.112 (Gannet AEW.3) used ASM.6 power sections, as well as many improvements it also featured a lower relative output propshaft line to the previous versions.

Double Mambas were more than just two Mambas bolted to a common gearbox though, and each power unit was carefully matched and set up with the gearbox at the factory, and as such were complete ECU sets.

I seem to recall that there’s a guy in Australia ground running a D.Mamba ECU with chopped prop set.

I assumed that with two airworthy Gannet restos that Mambas could be overhauled? Saying that, the gearbox would be something else!