lol 😀

what would it take to persuade the CAA that a lightning could safely operate under civillian guise in this country? she has a massive spares backup, surely this coupled with experienced engineers and a good financial backing should be whats needed?

I cannot remember what is in storage at Shawbury off the top of my head, aircraft wise as they have no doubt transferred any of the remaining Jaguars from the batch that were the last flyers to Cosford, they are selling off the Tucanos that were in deep store for 10+ years. So its down to Gazelles Hawks and a few SHARs IIRC.

I know when Carlisle closed down they had a big clear out and a large amount of Hunter stuff went into the smelter from memory (there was a pic in RAF News, IIRC)

But when you think about it we ain’t got that much left to store anyway….:eek:

Tim

when i was on cadet summer camp 4 years ago, i swear that one of the older hangars on the oppositte side of shawbury had a meteor in it, as well as a hunter, 99% positive i saw one in there.

Slightly on a tangent, but relevant, heres a pic of a ’77 Red Flag Bucc. IIRC 2 a/c were thus painted though with slightly differing schemes. I can remember seeing TV news footage of them flying so low they were kicking up the dust from the desert. The urban myths mentioned earlier also abound, including the one about a Bucc returning to Nellis with damage caused by power lines whilst flying underneath them! :diablo:

HARDCORE!

just had a flick through my encyclopedia of aircraft,

XF923 First Flight – 14th April 1962
XF926 First Flight – 26th April 1963

…i think, unsure about the pilot of the second

beautiful, and a quite impressive achievement…wish it was here though

Pima Air Museum getting their B-36 to the skies, and doing a European tour with it next summer.

😮 😮 😮 for real?!! you have got to be kidding me!

Why can’t the CAA be as open minded as the South Africans for example?

I have a pet theory that the CAA have a man in a van at Bruntingthorpe with a few Stingers in case somebody gets carried away on a hi speed taxi run.

LOL how can that be untrue, it sounds just about right for them :diablo: