Did I visit NEAM back in about ’90/’91 as a 11/12 year old aviation freak whose love of the venerable Chipmunk started with this picture? I know the museum was to the west of Sunderland and checking on Google Earth it seems NEAM is to the west…

Yes, it is me in the picture 😮

Ok we all know there was a catalina at NW (bright orange). I think its still on gogle earth

anyway, i believe it went to the far east but has had some engine trouble

can anyone throw some light on this?

and

who owns the beast?

Thanks

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I’ve just had a look and I can’t see it on GE, or am I being blond?

Sorry to all blonds reading this…!

Being an instructor with 1011 Amesbury ATC at Boscombe Down I get to see (just) the gate guard, XL629, the only preserved P11-T4 in the world.
Whilst I understand getting permission to enter gate to photograph her is not difficult I haven’t yet ventured up there with my camera… but you will be first to know when I do!

THANKYOU ALL!

Rocketeer, I did think it was somewhat strange that a museum opened only two years ago ‘in a blaze of glory’ could be allowed to become considered a health hazard in only a couple of years!

I will be seeing my BD acquaintance at the end of the week so I will direct him here in order to correct his ‘knowledge’.

David, I will speak to our squadren co, Andy Membury on Friday about contacting you and arranging a visit probably some time in April.

The f104 was the Widow Maker….but only the German ones. Didn’t they try and turn it into a high speed bomber or somesuch?

The Tornado is a Mighty Fin, but the servicemen I know refer to it as Tonka.
The americans call our Harrier T10’s the T birds.

The A350 is already the Nightmare liner.

Does anybody know why the Tornado is known as the Tonka and does it only apply to GR1/4s or also include F3s?

Personally I think text speak is a significant factor in the causes of ‘illiteracy’ amongst kids/young adults today.

I received two text messages from a teenage girl I work with, the first enquiring about her transport to work was 18 words long only 5 were spelt properly and the second was 14 words long with only 6 spelt properly, the rest was in ‘text speak’.

She may be able to write those two sentances out correctly now but in say 5 years time of regular text speak will she still be able to or by then will she be classed as illiterate?

I did hear many years ago the Nazi swastika is actally the mirror image of a religious(?) symbol that means good luck.

Is this true or was I fed bull?

I’ve looked on Google Earth and I can see the Phantom on the dispersal but not a Harrier. In the area where the two runways cross and the craters are I have seen what looks like a Hunter.