They’re probably reducing the station inventory as they’re liable for accounts charges on assets held. The old Combined Ops building at Wyton was demolished to reduce the charges under the same scheme.

Also used on the Manchester and the Botha, any pics would be great.

Cheers

Cees

oooh Don’t forget the Stirling Cees!:D

Interesting to see some pics, we’ve just got the cupola which is currently on loan to the Pathfinder Museum at Wyton.

John

From my perspective a good day and good to meet up with a few of the forumites:D

Has anyone got a link to the collection? I Googled it but didn’t seem to find much:confused:

cheers

John

If they were unexpectedly retired early with no FI on the wings, how would they have carried on to their planned retirement date?:)

John.

Perhaps a bit hasty with my quote:o

There was very little FI left on the wings and the FI had to be carefully husbanded. We spent a lot (and I mean a lot:eek:) of money developing a NDT technique to monitor one particular area of the rear wing skin and spar structure which was manufactured with a concession, ie the edge distance to one fastener was too low. This was an area where the critical crack length was 0.5mm after that the wing could unzip. Basically they were flying by inspection and it was an onerous one at that.

Hope that clarifies things a bit.

John

thanks for posting the pics, lots of big grins here!:D:D:D

No flying RAF Jags unfortunately, absolutely no FI left on the wings!

John

Glad to see it’s back up and running. Well done Mark and Bruce!

From Post #1, the subscription was due this week so it’s no surprise that it’s suspended.

Reading between the lines in earlier posts, I think that Mark is taking his time to review what is actually required/wanted and then see if it can be taken forward. I’m sure that whatever the decision it won’t be taken lightly

John