Thanks Merlin. Any chance you can send me those in high res please? Send me a PM.

You mention red/white one. I presume you mean red/white Andover? I seem to recall a red/white Andover being down the bottom near the Neptune and Britannia before the mass aircraft move round started a couple of years ago.

With this Andover being scrapped, can you confirm there’s still another on the airfield? And do you know the museums long term plans on the Argosy? I guess it may find a home inside once the new exhibition building is finished? If it does it will be the first Argosy under cover – all we need then is for someone to do the same for a Britannia…

Anyone know if they have fitted the tanks to the Valiant yet and where it is parked now? Would love to come and take some shots, but won’t make the long trip if it’s nowhere to be seen!

Kodachrome 64, full sun, side on, please Albert!

Would love to get to see it myself but unless it’s still outside mid July, flying 5,500 miles home for a few piccys is a tad excessive! Even by my standards!

Looks to me like there’s still a considerable amount of work needed to put her back into the air.

Indeed…do we really think she’s going to fly again? Any body know how long has she’s been dormant now?

Guess a weekly looksie to see if anything’s happening will give us an idea, unless you can find a freindly engineer who’ll give you the ‘low down’!

MrB.17, Damien baled out on the 10D early last year and he’s been using a couple of D60’s until recently.

What was the reason for dumping the 10D Damien?

256Mb cards are totally impractical, especially when shooting RAW. On the 1D2 I can fill a 2Gb card in very little time – juggling 8 256Mb cards doesn’t bear thinking about.

Yeah, but you’re a pro so most of us never use the RAW setting!!! :p

MrB.175, looking at your photo of the Vulcan, I cannot help but notice that work seems to be ongoing with Buccaneer XV350, do you have any photos of her?

Here’s a photo of her. There was no specific work being carried out, the members of the Aeropark occasionally open the engine access doors, cockpit and nose cone to allow vistors a better look at her.

I had a visit around the firepits in August 1992 and the only Vulcan left then was XL386

Tim

Are you sure of the dates as my records show August 1993…

Can anyone confirm for me when XM657 was finally scrapped? 🙁 I know she was flown to RAF Manston on the 12th of January 1982 to become an instructional airframe, and that she was still clinging on to life in early 1993, but does anyone know how long she survived after this date? Any pictures chaps?

Hi XL391, here’s 2 shots I took of her when I visited the RAF Fire Training School at Manston in October 1985. She still looked pretty good then.

Early in 1988 the School dug a hole and positioned her nose leg in it which simulated a nose gear collapse and more challenging rescue scene for fire figthing practice. I believe she stayed in this nose down attitude until being scrapped by well known Essex based aircraft scrappy, Hanningfield Metals during August 1993 (XL386 was scrapped at the same time). Hope this answer’s your question, I’d like to see if anyone post’s any photos of her after I took mine.