Hi Peter,
I think those pics are very recent, a good hint being “5th July 2006” at the top of the page. 😉
Predannack is a Royal Navy airfield down in Cornwall and it’s home to the Fleet Air Arm Fire School, hence the chopped up Jetstream etc.

Happy Birthday mate, have a good’n 🙂

Hi Steve,
The link below has a few interior detail shots of Eddie Kurdziel’s WB518, including some of the front and rear cockpits. Hope this is of some help…

http://www.faireyfirefly.com/index.php?page=gallerySearch

Peter,
Sign up as a member of the forum and the links to the clips will become apparent. 🙂

Looks lovely out in the sun, if a little bit dusty, thanks for the pics Darren. I have to agree about the ‘pissed’ bombdoors, but it’s good to see the props moved out of sync a bit. It never looks right to me when a multi-engine type has all its props in a uniform position, moving them about a bit gives her that just-taxied-in look, hope they leave her that way.
Pics taken a few days ago on Martin Claydon’s Duxford Update site show her with wingtips removed in preperation for the move, have they been re-attached or will they stay off till she’s tucked into Airspace?

I saw a pair of them flying over Hatfield yesterday, very impressive. Thought they were German for a second, but they had IFR probes and grey camouflage-definately American examples.

Shortly after the programme was first shown on the BBC there was a letter published in Aeroplane written by a couple of ex-RAF W/Ops with thier ideas about the meaning of STENDEC. I don’t have the mag anymore and I can’t remember the exact details, but having gone through the various possibilities their conclusion was that STENDEC was probably a mis-interpretation of “End”, which was apparently commonly used by RAF wireless ops of the time when about to switch over to voice communication from morse (the W/Op on ‘Stardust’ was ex-RAF). Being as the crew thought they were close to thier destination, they were about to switch over to talk to approach control.
They theorised that the civvy-trained operator on the ground wouldn’t have been aware of the use of ‘End’ and misinterpreted it as ‘STENDEC’.

Abingdon, September 15th !990, the Battle of Briatin 50th Anniversary Show. All sorts of memorable displays, including the Vulcan, the Harvard Display Team and a stripey TT Canberra, and ofcourse the mass RAF flypast which had already flown over Buckingham Palace.
One individual display I can still vividly remember was by a French(?) guy in something like an Extra, who very nearly touched his wheels on the tarmac at the bottom of every manouvre. That’s how it seemed to my 10 year old eyes anyway. Does anyone know who he was?