all bull****,

this month we start laying 18’000 tonnes of tarmac at Scampton, and this is a special mix for fast jet operations.

That seals it then – whenever we resurfaced a runway the base closed soon after. Abingdon, Colt…..

Calshot – Sunderlands, throw in a few Princesses, run the Schnieder tropy again ……………..

or how about Beaulieu as an RAE again – cars at the museum, planes over the road 🙂

The brick building shown is a barrack block – it felt really odd when I did my sailing courses a few years ago at Calshot – sleeping in a block and going to the hangar to get the boats out. The block reminded me of the ones I used at Halton, albeit a smaller version.

As far as I know the Officers Mess was on the ‘mainland’ at the other end of the spit, and ended up as The Flying Boat pub, before it was destroyed by fire.

What’s the radome on the BBC picture off ?

Sea Vixen ?

looks like a JU-188 to me

When I went through as an airframe tech in the mid 80’s they had three in ‘new’ workshops, but really didn’t know what to do with them.

The only time we went near one was when in systems someone showed us a LOX pot, and I asked them to show how it fitted.

I had heard they were there for hyd systems training, but that was done mainly on the bench as it’s easier to understand a dummy system in front of you than a real one burried in an airframe.

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=31615

I have a different viewpoint on what this is.

Not sure what it started life as – drop tank or whatever, but surely if you are towing this behind something, you would’t want the drag of that handling ring.

No – I think this is a cobbled together training aid for the troops to pick up and run with – anyone ex British Forces / RAF out there done the ‘stretcher run’ with several full jerry cans on it, or the pine-pole run ?

Propably 106 modded frames.. Not any good if you can’t get the engines.. A lot of the Jag frames from Colt were bang out of fatigue life anyway.. Only the RAFG frames you worked on would have any life left and they was all need a complete major service to even be considered to fly by the yanks..

Now, if they really made it worth my while……… 😉