I believe that they had to resort to using napalm because the original ordnance that they using was in-effective and didn’t ignite the oil; and that they cited this was because the “oil was the wrong type!”

Sounds a bit like the “wrong type of snow” or “the wrong type of leaves”. :rolleyes:

This topic was partially covered in the following thread and via some of the links therein, the military-airshow one still seems to be live.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79029

Just over a year ago Buccaneer XN964 had some temporary markings applied to celebrate the Torrey Canyon sorties. There was a lot of debate on other fora about the sorties and the role of the different military assets plus some feedback from various local newspapers and radio interviews in the south west and west Wales – I recollect that RNAS Brawdy was an operating base.

Sadly the person who gathered it all together at Newark Air Museum is away on holiday until early April, so for the time being I am unable to get in touch with him to confirm the final outcome of the feedback that I know came in.

Stop Press: I knew there was more … http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7449443.stm …. my two fellow volunteers in the clip still haven’t lived it down!!

Argosy XN819

I have it on good authority that Newark Air Museum is working towards getting the building work sorted out around the cockpit of XN819 – with the medium-term aim of getting it functional again.

Under the ongoing proposal in future there might even be the opportunity of seeing the outside of the ‘procedures trainer’, which is an exhibit in its own right!