There are many factors in this. For example in Spilsby, the ATC allowed the hut to be sold off and the land along with the swimming pool next to it, for housing. Then they wonder why gangs of youths are hanging around doing nothing.

I am puzzled why the memorial was never built near Scampton. I guess 617 did a lot more ops from Woodhall, but I know very little about the “other” missions.

Besides I am sure that if Woodhall had a proper Police Force somebody in such a “community” could have raised the alarm. Went I went to the station in woodhall, I found it shut at 5.00 with an old dear cleaning the floor. What sort of use is that? “Come back in the morning”, reminds me of Monty Python.

The fact is our Police are out of touch and think that giving out leaflets about political correctness is the way forward. They are not in touch with youth at all. I had a long chat with an inteligent inspector in Hull who would love to interact with the young community. However everything he tried was quashed. A sgt at skegness admitted that getting blacks on their side was a no go, because most coppers DO detest them, regardless of whatever politically correct whitewash we are told.

They have no idea how to tackle rural crime. Most “old school” coppers live in the 1950s and most crims laugh at them.

What is difficult about highlighting trouble spots and keepin an eye on them on at the w/e?

BLAME THE POLICE AND TELL THEM THIS INCIDENT IS THEIR FAULT.

seems you have a bit of a chip on your shoulder about the police!

this incident is their fault….. of course…. they are the ones with the cans of paint in their hands… :rolleyes:

perhaps the people/kids who did this should take responsibility for doing it , not the police (who i’m fairly certain didn’t actually do it!). it seems very popular these days to blame some one else instead of taking resonsibilty for your own acts, its always the polices’ fault, the governments fault, the teachers fault, what would you have them do, watch these people 24 hours a day?

this sort of vandalism has been going on for as long as i can remember, and police forces of old couldn’t stop it, so i hardly think todays force would be any different.

not parting with any of mine, but they do come up on ebay quite a lot, and quite often for cheap prices these days.
i may be able to help you if you need the odd snap though.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RIVET-GUN-3X-AIRCRAFT-TOOLS_W0QQitemZ160170198914QQihZ006QQcategoryZ42337QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I remember the navajo chieftans coming into fairwood (swansea) in the 70’s quite regularly. i even have a pic somewhere of it sat on the apron.

i can still remember vividly remember when DR FOD and miss Wayward body came to Valley to do a shoot for flight safety posters in the early 80’s….you can imagine the reaction when a rather fit miss wayward body walked through the line hut clad only in a basque and stockings, and then proceeded to pose all over a hawk! its the only time i’ve ever seen a FLM ask the controller for a job!

my first memories of vulcans was seeing the old, scrapped hulks at st athans during their airshows. later on i got to clamber around the ones in for maintenance as st athan was our affiliated station whilst i was in the cadets.
later on my dad took me up to some valleys where he used to watch javelins do low level when he was a kid, and we used to look down on vulcans doing low level.
i also spent a week at scampton on annual cadet camp.
later on after i joined the RAF i refuelled them a couple of times, what a bloody struggle it was to climb up the leg with a fuel hose in your hand!

having fiddled with Tonkas for a few years, and knowing how much work is required to get one in the air, i’d say, it would be virtually impossible to keep one in the air with just enthusiasts/volunteers, and the budget of the average volunteer organisation.
the ground equipment, test sets, specialist tooling etc…..the Tonka requires an awful lot of it!

the unit shouldn’t be that hard to identify, there’s a big squadron badge on the side of the intake.
i’d have thought the photo was taken smewhere in RAFG as i don’t think we had much in the way of hardened buildings in the uk at the time

not on a 747, but on plenty of other aircraft types, like the B.52.