Bob, Hi,
Most of the Uni Archaeology Depts have a number of these gizmos. Talk nicely to them and you might even get given a couple of students to do the “donkey work” for their Dissertations?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not, perhaps, the full Time Team bit, but mutual backscratching!
HTH
Resmoroh

The plastic blow-up job at the end of “Airplane”
Resmoroh

Charlie,
It is about the removal for ever, or not, of Historic RAF artefacts by those who may, or may not, be qualified to make such decisions – but think they are. This is the problem with pseudo-democracies!
HTH
Resmoroh

VX927 (and others) re Post #13.
I spent more than 40 yrs either in (2 periods), or as a civil servant (and Reserve Officer), in the Operational side of the RAF – so I do know what I’m talking about. Any Air Force is a Defensive/Offensive organisation. It is NOT Air Show fodder, however much the airshow junkies may wish it.
When we could afford it the Arrows were good TV fodder. We can no longer afford it. Do you wish to see this frippary kept in being at the expense of Tac Comms Wg/Tac Supply Wg, and the Spec Forces Support Grp, etc, etc? If you do then you are not thinking straight. Get real. This is difficult stuff. Air Shows do not defend the country!
HTH
Resmoroh

Matt,
Not all a/c are equipped with the kit – the ground receivers are not world-wide. Not all have it swtiched on. I’m located at a point at which a/c going to N America are about 10-12k feet out of LHR. Those, with the kit (and switched on!), identify on FR24 very accurately in the ‘x’ and ‘y’. Not so sure about the ‘z’ – but that was always the problem with GPS.
There are sites that can give you an airframe’s history. Anything over 40 yrs would, I submit, be fair game for ‘Historic Aviation’. Audible drooling goes on with mil a/c of lesser age when shufti’d. So the civvies must be fair game?
And at the other end of the scale there are some very ‘odd’ flights by ‘RAF’ a/c with ‘civvy’ call-signs/airframe idents, etc. It all gets a bit blurred from the days when I accumulated hundreds of ties from RAF Baggage Labels on my Bergen!
Resmoroh

There’s a rumour that as from 1 Apr 2013 ALL Posts on this Forum will have to be (a) totally accurate, (b) properly and verifiably attributable, and (c) use Betty Battenburg’s English (or, at least, the nearest approximation thereto that can be achieved).
Resmoroh

Lawrence (Post #53), Hi,
I go along with RAF Peterborough (Westwood). I actually got to sit in one of those Tiger Moths as 4 yr-old!! Presume the loc of the Master prang was Priory Road? Born at the other end of it from the prang!!
And Peterborough – Norwich (I think) was the first helicopter Mail transfers! Clattering little things barely making it over the top of Baker Perkins office block!!! (there’s an HMP on the site now!!)
HTH
Resmoroh