Here she is going round the bend at Old Warden in years past.
Those beautiful tapered DH wings will make her very prone to a sudden tip stall at low speed..a handful on landing, as history shows.
Really looking forward to seeing her airborne again.

That calls to mind a great yarn in Dick Lord’s book “From Tailhooker to Mudmover”..he was flying a Vixen on air interception practise, and his his observer vectored him onto a blip at 40,000ft near Filton. On closing it was apparent that it was a Vulcan…easy meat. They both went into a turning chase and Lord was staggered by the fact that not only did the Vulcan outturn him, forcing him into prestall buffet, but began to outclimb him too. Only as it levelled and flew away did he see the fifth Concorde engine slung under the fuselage……

Blimey, don’t make it common knowledge that there’s gold in them thar Vulcan windows.
They’ll be going the way of copper cables and war memorial plaques !!!

I can remember clambering over the remains of a Javelin on the HalFar dump when I lived in Kalafrana in 1966/7.
Here’s a partner in crime on a home made catamaran cobbled up from a pair of drop tanks, in Kalafrana bay with Birzebugga in the background.

And a very nice postcard of early Kalafrana, before the married quarters were built on the hill behind the Wrens quarters.
Looks like a Felixstowe on the ramp, so must be early 20’s I would guess.

I had the great pleasure of knowing Stan Hall BEM, last surviving member of the RAF High Speed Flight that won the Schneider Trophy in 1931. In the late 1920’s he served with 202 Sqdn at Kalafrana on Fairey IIIDs, and told me of the early morning flights he would take in the back seat to pick up fresh honey from the little island of Comino, in time for breakfast in the officers mess. It really was the world’s finest flying club in those days!

“C.1K XR808/R (earmarked for RAFM preservation)”

Is there anything special/unique about this particular airframe that marks it out?

Well done indeed, MAM. I like photo #6 particularly…..squint at it through narrowed eyes, and just imagine a Spitfire or Hurricane against the background of Mdina. Wonderful stuff.

Mmmmm, lovely.

Now, how about a Watts two blader?

TFIC