Spotted this afternoon on the A14 near Bury-st-Edmunds, the fuselage of a 1920’s/30’s air racer type aircraft on a trailer.
looked very much like a Mew Gull or something similar. in rubbed down red paint.

Think both the L-100’s went to Safair.

All three of Air contractors L100’s were always owned by Safair and were only ever leased to Air contractors. from memory they usually still had Safair markings on them somewhere at the same time as Air contractors.

Its not RAF Wattisham any more, its just Wattisham Airfield and its run by the Army. the only RAF there are a few air traffic staff and the 22sqn rescue flight.

it seems a very strange stance to take (well to me anyway!) that you are only allowed to discuss one aspect of a mans life and no other…..all at the insistence of one moderator!

there have been many threads on here discussing past veterans lives, both favourable and unfavourable, why should this one be any different?

then to say that posts should be only aviation related, and yet leave quite a few posts that clearly aren’t seems to be quite strange!

it all seems like one moderators personal censorship to me!

Correct.
And if these guy´s are complaining about the “blue cement” :dev2: radar of the ADV, what would they say about the N-001 of the late 80´s…
A disaster?
If there was a radar with a problematic development that was the N-001.

it was ‘blue circle’…. not blue cement. blue circle was a brand of cement.

He “Exited”, which means fell out. The Tonka ejection seat system bangs both crew out if one of them pulls the handle….as is the case for all multi-crew a/c. For the Tonka it’s the Navigator first, by a split second (If it was pilot first, the nav. would collide with him). So, if he did go out with his seat, there must have been a serious malfunction with the ejection system, which is very rare indeed.
Obviously, there is some kind of serious malfunction somewhere.

Condolences to the family and friends of course.

not so….there is a command eject lever in the rear cockpit which you can set to both or individual. most fast jets with more than one seat i’ve worked on have had this system.

it wasn’t unknown when i worked on Hawks with RAF to get the pukey student pilot back to clean up his own mess on occasion!