I’m just cutting and swaging some dustbin lids as I speak!

A thousand pardons if this is a re-post, just stumbled across it.

It has, but you get a Pagey pardon anyway!:cool:

ISTR a Tornado that ended up the same way, in Saudi or somewhere?

I’m ready for a surprise here, but as far as I’m aware the Neptune was only used by RAF Coastal Command, not by the Royal Navy.

Good little video, I did wonder how the beautiful polished effect was achieved with the Jaguar, and how the aircraft were erected in the display space.
It would be niave to think that Fiona did all the heavy work on these projects herself and at least the film shows that others were involved.

It’s probably an unpopular view here, but I do actually like what she achieved with these aircraft, it is obvious that she has a deep seated passion for aircraft going back to her younger days. I certainly can’t knock someone who was able to go out and buy a complete Sea Harrier & Jaguar (of which there are many about and available) and then work and display them into something different and thought provoking – whether we like it or not.
My only beef was that the complete aircraft were never retained for preservation after the display, certainly the Jaguar would have looked very impressive, I wonder if Fiona could have been more pro-active about that.

As an aside my ops manager flew ‘Buster Gonad’ in GW1.

FAA Museum Yeovilton = Royal Navy aircraft collection
RAF Museum Cosford = Royal Air Force and prototype/research aircraft
Newark Air Museum = mixture, but mainly post-war military, inc good foreign content
IWM, AAM, & DAS Duxford = Best American military content outside US, British military, British airliners & civil, and largest UK collection of based flying historic aircraft, inc workshops.

However, answers to your question will be very subjective given specialist interests of different members, ie I really like Fleet Air Arm and British post-war military aviation, particularly prototypes.

The Science Museum at S.Kensington, as JDK rightly points out, is a treasure trove of outstanding aircraft in aviation history, but possibly won’t merit a day (unless you take in the rest of this fantastic museum – eg good spaceflight stuff), maybe that could be combined with a visit to the Imperial War Museum at Lambeth which also houses a small but very distinguished list of aircraft.

…not until the time that a 200,000Ib laden Victor tanker has to be catapaulted off anyway!

I seem to remember them struggling with the 9,000ft at Mawgan when heavy!