Right forgive me for being blonde, but, which airshow @ Duxford are we on about here please? I havent been to airshows for some time, but now my step son is 4 Im going to try and introduce him to them, preferable without scaring the pants off him. :diablo: Bex

The Radios were fully restored to working order about 10 years ago, however we don’t use them.
BBMF

Time to be cheeky, any ideas if u guys have any spare “J Switches” knocking around that the RAF would be willing to sell? If u dont ask u dont know 😀

Also, wot is a “J Switch” and what does it do?

Bex

Onthecrowdline,

THanks for posting this its reminded me I should have done something ages ago, more on that in a mo: If you stay in London there is also the Gatwick Aviation Museum, near Gatwick Airport. You can get a train from London to Gatwick Airport, but you will need to get a bus from the Airport to Charlwood Village. At the moment Im not sure about the buses but I will post here again by Tuesday night.

Finally, Rob, Im sorry I didnt get back to you about travel to GAM, I’ll be honest, I forgot. Keep ya eye on this thread and I will add the bus part from Gatwick.

Bex

Oi! I must admit to a little Mental deficiency, you had to have something slightly wrong to climb into a 25 year old collection of vibrating spare parts every day, that seemed to defy the laws of Physics, probability and Sod almost every time we flew….One of my instructors had been in 6 crashes, had had 2 tracheoctopies and wore an eye patch:eek: …..in 120 hours I only had 2 forced landings, 3 engine/computer failures and 1 Brake Fire hmmm:rolleyes:

Easy Tiger, I assume that you will have to fit Blue-Circle Radar in order to get the CofG correct:D 😉

Wessex Boy, that is one way of describing a Whirlythingybob LoL but for 120 hours that aint bad I guess, Ive meant to ask u before, where u flying them or where u in the back?

Ah the delights of the Infamous Blue-Circle Radar, thats gotta be one of the British Armed Forces most successful bit of kit. Is it worth its own thread to see if we can work out exactly how many birds have been fitted with it?

Bex

Cees, Lancman, ok I goofed with my Grammar LoL :diablo: I meant to put “Drooling” at the start but got lumped on the end but im sure u got the drift of what i was babbling on about LoL finally, if Lancman wants to be chocked up on the end of the line for a photo shoot well……………. Bex

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I could hardly call the Gannet attractive, but it does have character. We call it the FUGLY.

Bex
XL500 is an AEW3 and is UK registered as G-KAEW (Kennet AEW). I think you could be right on the radar thing. There was none in ours when we got it.

I have to admit Gannets are a bit of an Ugly Duckling, but youre right, character they have lots 😀 XL472 was gutted to, Radar Bump stripped and the navs stations totally stripped out too, I er managed a sneaky peak oneday, but when I joined GAM I was asked what aircraft I wanted as my project, and I narrowed it down to the PR7 or Gannet, but I chose the PR7 after what I saw of the Gannet, the Old Girls a bit of a mess. 🙁 Bex

Oh forgive me for being blonde, another question re XL500, is she A/S or AEW? And I heard somewhere but I might be wrong and open to correction here, didnt the Radar from Gannets get put into Shackletons?

Bex