These are of RAF St Mawgan,
The archive pics are from the excellent Keith A Saunders ‘Britain In Old Photographs – RAF St Mawgan’ book, and my newer comparison shots are from 2005 ish.

First shot is of Sycamore HR.12s of ASWDU, the nearest two being WV781 Z, & WV784 W, believe furthest could be WV783 X.
The Sycamores are over the old 08 threashold area of Treloy, there is a parked Shackleton T.4 (on bay 30 I would think) and Chipmunk taxying behind.
My shot shows where the HAS site has been built over the same area.

Sycamores ASWDU by jamtey71, on Flickr

HAS site Sycamores by jamtey71, on Flickr

Next up is a scene over West dispersal, and shows a KC-97F, two SC-54Ds, a TF-1 Trader and S2F-2 Tracker sometime c 1955. Some 50 years later the two T2 hangars, 13 and 115 (in the gloomy distance), are still there but renumbered 402 and 405.

f74662827 by jamtey71, on Flickr

402 Hangar T2 (3)bw by jamtey71, on Flickr

I always wanted to know exactly where this Shackleton, MR.3 WR976 K of 220 sqn, incident in May 1958 happened.
In the end I tracked it to sliding off the old 08 threshold and coming to rest on the roadway to Trebelzue, hangar 115/ 405 in the background.

Shackleton MR.3 K 220 Sqn by jamtey71, on Flickr

Treloy Line by jamtey71, on Flickr

Lovely shot of Shackleton MR.3 XF704 L of 201 sqn on Carloggas bay (reckon bay 11 or 12). Sadly this aircraft and crew were lost in the Moray Fourth on the 8th December 1965.
Compare the scenery to the now shot, even the fields/hedges and the house behind the parking area hasn’t changed at all. Church and arials on the horizon is RAF St Eval.

Shackleton MR.3 XF704 L 201 Sqn by jamtey71, on Flickr

Carloggas bay 11 by jamtey71, on Flickr

Lovely work and results there Denis!

If you click on his name ‘Cotteswold’ at the head of his posts you should see a drop down menu of four choices, select third one down ‘find all posts by Cotteswold’.

Hopefully this link works as well, http://forum.keypublishing.com/search.php?searchid=4764511

Hope this helps:)

You need to read through Tims’ posts Nick:p
Not Sneval.

Had a Lightning encountered an Indonesian Mustang ‘for real’ it would have been a 74 Sqn F.6, so also no guns (no belly pack at that time).

I know it’s all a bit ‘what if’ but wouldn’t the nose cannon armed Lighting F.1A, F.2/F.2A have been the more likely aggressors, I would think the Indonesian Confrontation was jsut a bit too early for the F.6 operationally anyway?

I thought that as well Rob, but I think I might have been thinking of this thread, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=96440

My memory isn’t brilliant, but I think Ian on here mentioned the P-61 crash site, may have been involved I wonder?

so four years after retiring the Victor they realized it had to be replaced??? Surely they would have known before…

They did, it was replaced by the VC-10 K.4.

You need to think of the various marks as slightly different aircraft, the dedicated VC-10 K.2 and K.3 tankers came on line in the early/mid 1980s to build up the RAF refuelling fleet, and were concurrent with Victor K.2s.
The VC-10 C.1 was role adapted as a transport/tanker C.1(K) from the early 1990s to further back up the tanking fleet, and the dedicated K.4 tanker came in service just after the Victor was retired.

Talking to VC-10 crews, it seems that the A330/FSTA should have had a smoother journey into service than it has, and it doesn’t seem particularly liked, the ‘strapping refuelling pods to an airliner’ doesn’t seem to have worked as well as it did for the shiney 10!

Sorry, I realise that ‘VMs’ fuselage is at Brooklands (as a fan of Jelles’ website) and looking good again, I didn’t mention it as it was mentioned a few posts above mine – perhaps I should have said broken up and no longer at Cosford.
The other VC-10 forward fuselage at Brooklands, in the BOAC markings, was a static test structure I believe.