I should stress that my requests aren’t anything to do with personal records and are service aircraft and station related, in fact one of the requests is to help with a major article for a service station magazine.

ez um, I think the engines could be made seperately as well, they must have been tiny in that scale!

Sad loss of history if it goes but if it’s a purely economic decision, the potential real estate value of this piece of land must be enormous.

That’s only one aspect, there are so many important units on the site, many of which it is beneficial for them to be there, that’s why I don’t quite believe the article.
Yes each unit may be able to be rehoused relatively easily, but take in to consideration The recent British Forces Post Office and EOD admin/training areas, and the existing AHB and Aeronautical documents centres would take some relocating as whole. That’s not to mention other units that are rarely referred to!
Northolt page here, http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafnortholt/aboutus/who_here.cfm
Also many of the existing buildings are Grade II listed, but unsure if that in itself would be a block to development.

Personally I can’t help thinking this to take attention away from one of the other ‘London’ stations, ie Benson.

Funny old thing, I’m looking at a JFACTSU (currently 100 sqn Leeming) Hawk through my office window right now!

Is the Revell a reboxed Matchbox?
If so did they make any changes?

Also, did the ancient Lindbergh kit of the Victor ever make it across the Atlantic?

Yes the Revell boxing is just a reboxing of the original Matchbox kit, I always prefer to build the original boxings due to mould crispness etc, though the Revell offering has the advantage in being moulded in just one colour of plastic!
The only changes I’m aware of is with the decal sheet to allow you to build the hemp coloured aircraft.

The Lindberg 1:96 scale kit did make it over here, and just to add to the confusion it was boxed by Revell at one stage! It is a halfway house between the prototypes and the B.1.

Lindberg also did a 1:96th Vulcan (again halfway prototype and B.1), Frog produced all three V Bombers with the (Valiant) in the scale, and I often wondered if the Victor and Vulcan were the same as the Lindberg kits?

I’ve built three Matchbox Victors and still have one to complete, I’m quite tempted by the three above, but a bit short on Wyvern bits!

In basic terms the Nimrod airframe was based on the Comet 4C, the two prototype aircraft were actually converted 4Cs.

The production Nimrod had the shorter Comet 4 fuselage, but the Comet 4C wings, the undercarriage was the same but strengthened, tailplane and fin/rudder were the same, thought the latter had a large fillet added to it to counter the aerodynamic effect of added weapons bay bulge which was added to the underside of the fuselage. Most of the cabin windows were deleted, and ASW specific sensors and domed observation windows makes up for other external differences.
And of course the RR Avons were discarded for the more powerful and economic RR Speys.

The refuelling probe is at a canted down angle when the aircraft is on the ground, in flight the aircraft flies slightly tail down (not uncommon with large aircraft) and thus the probe becomes level.

You’ll have to get past me first!:D I work around them and I can’t get anything like, tried Brunty aswel but all the useful stuff is going back into the spares chain.
There’s two VC-10 items I really want, the yoke and the unique flying control surface position indicator mounted in the middle of the overhead panel.

VC-10 C.1K XV104 Cockpit, captains panel by jamtey71, on Flickr

VC-10 C.1K XV104 Cockpit, overhead panel by jamtey71, on Flickr

Thanks for checking Rob.
James