Is there a reason why you’ve stuck the nose gear back on off centre?!:confused:

That’s normal on a trident 😉

Had a prawn dish in Thailand once. A mistake I won’t make twice! result kinda looked like that:D

I found incendiary in a farmer’s field after a heavy downpour. I handed it to the farmer, who dropped it on his tractor floor, said “another one for the pile for the annual BD visit”. Drove off with it rattling around on his tractor cabin floor.

Now this farmer in Kent was an intelligent man. So was the policeman who picked up some incendiaries near my home, placed them on the back seat of his panda car (1960s) and drove off.

These aren’t nuclear reactors:dev2:

Same here in Belgium. Farmers find WW1 bombs all the time on their field. They just leave them by the roadside and the army comes to pick them up once a week or something. No reason to panic. Just don’t hit them with a sledgehammer :p

Sad news indeed 🙁

It was predated by the Lockheed T-33.

Yes, but the T-33 was derived from the F-80. The Fouga was the first to be specifically designed as a trainer.

@Aviation Ancien: they will probably have had some flights booked on that day from that airfield. Hence why they were there.

I remember a G-FUGA based at Gamston, was offering rides at £250 for 30 mins. My group brought all the T-shirts, patches etc but everytime we called for our trip he was always out the country.

With today’s prices for jet fuel, that wouldn’t even pay the taxi to the runway!
G-FUGA was an ex-French Fouga that flew in the UK in the early ’90’s if I remember correctly. It was exported to the Netherlands. There it flew under a French reg with the DHJA. It made a gear-up landing 4-5 years ago and is now in the Soesterberg museum reserve painted as a Belgian example.
Do you still have a patch?

Those are friends of mine 🙂 I have flown with them several times and I can recommend it! It’s great fun and Jack is a superb pilot and ex-Patrouille de France leader. It’s not cheap, but it’s more then worth the money. They also have 2 camera’s installed in the aircraft, so you get a DVD of your flight. The Association is called Magist’air.