Any SAR helicopter over flying boats and boats ?
Good luck to the Pantons I say.
As an aside, and purely hyperthetically (sp?) how complete is S Sugar ?
Perhaps the press need re-educating.
Call it a forced landing, and it sounds better 😉
Call it a crash landing…. everyone worries 😮
The Sopwith hangar at Calshot:
Stop that now…!!!!
I know what you meant, but I’ve now got images of Paris Hilton and a Lightning intake bullet going through my mind :diablo:
I thought we had put the wing on ‘properly’ ( albeit not locked ) – I know the spine and panels were a bodge, but as said, it’s an ex-BDR mess.
the wing is only held on by 2 main pins ( with lock plates ) and a pair of links at each corner, each with a bolt to the fuselage, and another to the wing.
Mind you, if memory serves, I was down the back that day ( OK – I was snooping round the Vulcan really……)
Looks like a Jag – but may have both intake boxes off ( spares recovered )
I could suggest a straight edge and a skin-knife……… :diablo:
Neither of the two in Norwich were operational airframes.
XW566 at County Hall was a prototype and came to Coltishall’s gate from a similar role at Bruggen ( although I believe it may incorporate components from ex ‘live’ airframes )
XX109 at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum was very early production, and spent all its life on trials, arriving at Colt in the late 80’s ( it’s actually the next airframe on from 108 at Duxford)
Looks like a ramp up towards the front of the flight deck to me:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h60000/h60976.jpg
(OK – and a downwards slope on the flying off deck )
Not something to do with the Victor SR2 setup ? – ( he says trying for a better view of the wheels on this thing in picture 3 ) :
Photo 8 are ZPU 4, Soviet quad 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns, or the Chinese copy the Type 56. From Iraq, no doubt
Well, via 16 Sqn at Colt……… 😉