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Re. the above refuelling plan – it looks complicated enough on paper, let alone sorting out the right tanker at the right time in the dark (and in radio silence) :eek:[/QUOTE]

I take it most people have read Vulcan 607 that confirms the nightmare the first sortie was

Regards

Jon

Done with pleasure mate

Jon

Hi Guys

Drove down to the Brandon Park Hotel nr Thetford to meet a det from Aldergrove (2 Wessex and crew) doing pre N.I training with the army at Stanford.
Was a long drive with a bad hangover March 31st 1991.

Jon

Mr Hanna if i remember correctly

The Strathallan Collection

Hi Guys

My sister and her husband work for Lord Strathallan and to be honest I’ve no axe to grind here. All I will say is there are a lot of vintage aircraft surviving today that would not be without his input.Grace Spit.
Weeks Mosquito nobody in this country could afford/had the will to keep that here then. I stand corrected if Mr Weeks came in with a silly price.
How many others though Lysander Anson?
Waiting to be shot down but as somebody said earlier who was willing to transport a Shack in those days or even today.

Best Regards

Jon

Respect for Newark and hope to call on way on way down or back from Waddo

It’s easy to criticise 20 – 30 years on and/or with a big dollop of hindsight.

I think it was chopped (plus the Comet) when Strathallan closed down and nobody was prepared to take on moving them by road. Today it seems readily acceptable to cut a large aircraft to transport and then stitch it back together at it’s new home. I’m not critiscising but (in the UK) such operations are fairly new and I doubt it would have been considered when Strathallan closed.

IIRC the Mk.1 (T.4?) was at Farnborough due for the chop. Friend John Berkeley (at that time Chairman of MAM) played a part in getting the machine to Strathallan – saving(delaying) it from the axe.

This kind of thing has happened many times before – sometimes a long-term success, sometimes, regretably, not. Some in the latter category where large aircraft have flown to a Museum to be chopped later: Beverley at Hendon, Convair at Duxford, Vulcan B.1 and (more recently) various airliners at Cosford, etc.

Roger Smith.

This is what I was referring to Gents

Regards

Jon

Hi Twin Pin
What year was it when you were up there were the Shacks still operating from Lossie? That would make a difference to peoples attitude seen on youtube video of Shackleton displaying there must be eighties.

Regards

Jon

TonyT
The current donations and pledges add up to just over 328000 as at 1633 today. this is against a target of 500000 by the 28th thereafter another 300000 by the end of march which adds up to 800000

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Jon