everett aero have a couple of jetstreams for sale, might be worth ringing them to see if they have any bits….

http://www.everettaero.com/

Same could be said about all the Al areas too but they paint those.

so using your logic, no aircraft ever had any corrosion?

the reason the engine nacelles are left bare is purely due to the heat involved, and the risk of it catching fire.
even heatproof paint blisters off eventually.

even where aircraft have APU’s you’ll find that usually the are around the exhaust is bare metal, and either made of titanium or steel.
titanium is often used around engines as its far more fire proof and heat resistant than alloy.

Honington has a buccaneer. looking rather tired these days, and needs a spruce up.
Lyneham has a comet.
there’s also a Dakota accross the road from Lyneham in the air movements place.
Valley used to have a gnat and a vampire.(and a whirlwind?)

Thanks Mate!
XT672 appears in my Log Book 11 times, and in fact was the last one I Operated, sadly.
It did not have ‘Aires’ scrawled on the side in my recollection though!

Thanks for posting, I had good fun at Shawbury, it was a nice camp, Shrewsbury was a reasonable place to go on a night out, and the 8 mile walk back to camp wasn’t too bad when you ran out of cash for the cab home!
The only real issue was the WAAF block was over the road, so you got counted out of the main gate, and then they sent a search party out if you didn’t come back within 30 mins :diablo:

I spent 2 weeks in the guardroom after being chopped (first female SWO at Shawbury!) not only did I have to measure how much White and Yellow paint was needed to repaint all groundside road markings, I had to build the same pill box 3 times as the SWO and OC GD could not agree on it’s location ( I have the cartoon in the Shawbury Mag somewhere!)

we also had the first ever female SWO at valley in the early/mid 80’s (maam beasley), being a liney at the time we crossed swords on quite a few occasions, a right old dragon she was!

Continued now for reasons of oily stains and the flame retardant thing too.

Moggy

not sure the oily stains with actually help with the flame retardent side of things!

i remember when i was growing up in the 70’s and quite an aircraft enthusiast, there was quite an aura and plenty of mystique about the mig-25. in those days very little was known about them, the only photos were were grainy and blurred, no one seemed to know the true performance of them.
a common rumour was that they were the fastest plane in the world, with a speed of something like mach4!!!

its easy to knock their performance in these modern times when most things are known about them, but in their day they were quite a deterrant, and i expect they influenced the design criteria for several western aircraft.

its standard procedure to pull up, and try to turn around, and land where you’ve just come from in a Hawk.
i used to work on the line on them, and i never really got used to the roar of take off/go around power suddenly stopping as the instructor slammed the throttle back to simulate an engine failure during take off.

if you ever get round to spotting at Valley, you’ll see this practised quite frequently.

a lot of it sounds like a modern lycoming or something.