The Rolls-Royce facility at Hucknall, Notts played a pivotal role in the programme and is an important part of the local aviation heritage of Nottinghamshire covered by Newark Air Museum – RB.108s etc. 🙂
The Meteor FR9 link on the bottom of this webpage http://empedia.info/maps/28 has some interesting digitised VTOL related footage including of the SC.1 – although I’m not 100% certain about the location attributed to it. :confused:
Plus there’s the later Sea Harrier footage – although one of the external YouTube links on that section re the Alraigo incident seems to have been broken at the other end due to some copyright issues!!
Any one have connections or personal accounts of this Airfield?:)
I’m sure that you might find some already noted in this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=22567 😉
58MU disposals into former gravel workings north of Newark – witnessed by my late grandfather, circa 1946-47. Comments have been posted before – investigations not possible due to pheasant farming!
As per my posts #9, #13 and #20 in this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=121098 there’s also the Stirling fuselage that was used to culvert one of the taxiways at RAF Winthorpe!!
However NAM’s excavations that started on Monday haven’t revealed anything……..
….YET!!! 😀
Thanks for the ‘heads-up’ about Bygones – I wonder who supplied Mr Smart with the material for that? 😉
……….All these comments by HP111 surely point towards an FSM. John B (at various times owner of several BoB FSMs thinks he may have loaned one out in that area and is digging his files. I will report back if he is able to confirm…….
As I suspected both the Spitfire and Hurricane FSMs are featured in the ‘Site 1 – 1974 to 1976’ album on the Museum Gallery page here, plus if you look closely at the aerial view of the Newark Site photograph you can even see the 109 FSM!
A couple of new albums have been added to the Museum Gallery page!
In one album there are the first photographs of the work that is now underway on the Small Object Storage Building, full details in here! The CIL notification was completed and the project had its first successful inspection by the local Building Control Officer this morning! 🙂
The second album features the museum history photographs for this week covering the period from 1974 to 1976; this features the Lancaster fuselage; Spitfire & Hurricane replicas; the museum’s first helicopter (Sycamore); the Varsity arrival; and the first salvos in the USAF aircraft VAT saga!! 🙂
Don’t forget the possible traffic issues tomorrow and Thursday. 🙁
Do you have any leads at all, RAF station, squadron, aircraft types, trade etc.?
Perhaps in future the RAF will start using the appropriate symbols when they use the word(s)™
To assist everyone the short cut is ALT+153 on Word! 😀
Motorway sign reports about my wallet being open again, barely a month after the ‘mini-forum meet’ in December are greatly exaggerated! 😮
As for free coffee, helicopters and lying snow? (all the right topics but not necessarily in the right order!!)
I’m always pleased to buy you a coffee Brian and many thanks for the photo CD, which arrived safely the other day! 🙂
Currently there’s a need to be wary of the weather forecasts! Here in Nottingham we have a light covering of melting snow and clear blue skies – perfect conditions to get some reflected up-lighting onto those aircraft undersides!
However I’m told that over in Newark there is no snow and it is foggy. Not very good conditions for helicopters – although a Robinson did come in yesterday and was noted in the Low Flying Log! 😉
What next week holds who knows, if we get the snow that is being talked about, and with the predicted traffic situation re-the agricultural event; then NAM may struggle to open up! Although that could present a few issues for any helicopters that do make it to Newark as the passengers would have to climb a few fences or ford a watercourse!!
Watch the museum website for updates! 😉
An Aeroboot / Aerojumble update for the event on 2nd March has been added here – 17 tables now sold!
I know that they have been viewable before, however if anyone is interested there is a Saab-Fest album displayed here – it features the Safir, Draken and Viggen airframes that are displayed at Newark. 🙂
Good luck with this one Tony, if you send over some leaflets / posters I’ll make sure they’re available at our do on 2nd March! 🙂
Prompted by your comment I’ve arranged for a second photograph to be added to the same album, that shows G-ALIH (with a cut rear fuselage :eek:) on the back of a lorry leaving Southend in 1969.
IIRC this photograph appeared on one of the ‘Moving’ albums last year. The dates on the scans were taken from the original print & slide in the Nev Franklin (NF) Collection – I scanned them myself for a short news item I prepared for FlyPast when NF passed away.
Some further clarification about potential access issues that you may face if you’re planning to visit NAM on Wednesday 16th January and on Thursday 17th January, 2013 has just been added to the Traffic Alert news item in here!
Once again sorry for any inconvenience caused by this! 😮