Blimey! I think me watch has stopped:D
Ok then where do the RAF teach such skills BIGVERN? Surely they do still teach, The only reason I mentioned apprentiships, was that subject was my Son’s first choice trade when he applied for the RAF not 9 years ago.

Trade training is now taught at Cosford, I’m not sure though at which level at which trainees pass out now.

john

No ‘war reserve’, just Ground Instructional Airframes.

It is definitely Canberra (or so my ex canberra mate says) I may have got confused over the marks though:o

Re the bent pitot probes, I always thought they were F104s (chinese whispers:D)

John

Hi all

have asked this question before on another thread but has anyone got any pictures of WP927/G-ATJK at any time during her life? she seems to have been camera shy and I’ve only got 2 fuzzy pictures, 1 at Detling and 1 at Hamble

here’s hoping;)

John

I’d just like to say how much we appreciate the positive thoughts from fellow Forumites on our endeavours, I just hope that we can meet everyones expectations.

As many contributors have said, the true value of the sizeable remnants of the aircraft is in their ability to tell a story and/or assist in reverse engineering them for the purposes of incorporating them into a FSM (because that’s what it will be at the end of the day). My recollection of the RAFMs fuselage segments is that they are very badly damaged although they are useful patterns. The RAFM u/c crate is sat in our hangar at present and has been great for taking measurements from and thankfully should we choose to go down that route in the future the reconstruction of the u/c assy is a realistic prospect (provided we can find somewhere with a high enough ceiling:diablo:)

regards

to all

John

RAFM has centre section (badly damaged), u/c crates and tail section complete with empennage.

We have Nose turret, 2 main wheels, 3 tail wheel assys and various u/c legs. Lots of wing wreckage, the start of a cockpit section and various fuselage/uc components.

Scattered around are a number of upper fuselage sections and smaller assys

As far as I’m aware there is little in the way of bomb bay/floor structure or cockpit structure unfortunately

John

Determination and money is all that it takes, and that’s where the problem lies (more in the money side of things). The tailsection of LK488 is relatively complete and can easily be restored for display. A oomplete tailsection already gives a good view about the bulk of the Stirling before the Stirling Project have reached their goal. Can the National Lottery be of help here as well as they did with the Vulcan?

Cheers

Cees

Been there, done that, the RAFM were reluctant to loan us the tail section before when we just wanted to use it for measuring up. IIRC the same view stands towards restoring it, that said it might be worth trying agin. However our main thrust is towards the cockpit, with manpower/cost limitations being the overriding factor

John