Hi, just add my bit here;
The three T5’s and three F6’s were flown out of Binbrook to Cranfield just after XR728 was delivered to us a Bruntingthorpe in June 88
The last two F6’s that left did the never to be forgotten ‘touch’ and go on the apron as a good bye before they departed 😮
All were brought by Arnold Glass, who intended to make a flim, which came to nothing, most of them got in a pretty poor state apart from, T5 XS452 and laterly XS458
Here’s a few shots just after they all arrived
These shots were taken a few years later when the work on 452 began to bring her back from the dead
XS452’s cockpit
Some of the rest
XS899 had one leg in the ground at the time, after being blown off the hard standing
If your easily upset then look away now,here’s what became of most of them, all now looking much better than this Im glad to say.
Cheers
Hi all, just like to second Ritch’s comments, it was a hard day but well worth it, 904 did it for me but Im bias 😀
Heres a few poor shots I got on Saturday with the camera on my phone, when it was a lovely sunny day 😡
First thing Saturday
Our first job was to refit 728’s No2 hatch and bolt her up, then remove the nose jack and tail trestle
Next snag came when we wanted to start towing, our towing arm seized up ! So a strip down and lots of greese was the order of the day.
A few of the other aeros
The SRA hanger is looking fine, well done chaps:)
And back to my first ‘love’s’
See you all in July 😀
Andy B (LPG)
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